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"Wight Spider" is the tenth track from the 2009 release The High End of Low. Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both it and eight other songs from the album.^[1]

Music details

A blog by Metal Hammer describes "Wight Spider" as having "Massive chords replete with omonious semi-tones. This may not be groundbreaking stuff for the band, but it is what they do best. Spooky black-glam vocal delivery and taunting bullying choruses with falsetto layers that dance round you like a black mass meets the hokey-cokey. Lyrically, the themes fit, with accusations of "possession" and an aggressive recurring "you". Again there are melodic similarities to material from Holywood, but not so much as to be embarrassing. The pop-structures of previous tracks from the album are gone and what he learned from Trent Reznor is back – whether conscious or not: the track builds and builds without changing direction. Again the slower tempo brings the album average down, and you might find yourself wanting something a bit quicker to plug-in the aggression – the kind that has you pounding your steering wheel and you pass a born again Christian who's been blocking you since the service station on the motorway. Or something."^[1]

In his review for The Quietus, John Robb explains that the song "drives along with a bass line that sounds like it was borrowed from everyone's favourite uber-Viking Peter Hook- that kind of snaking, one fingered, minor key thing."^[2]

Appearances

Albums

• The High End of Low

Versions

• "Wight Spider" — Appears on The High End of Low
• "Wight Spider" (Alternate Version) — Appears on the deluxe edition of The High End of Low

Lyrics

    I'll build you a shiny
    dollhouse or church
    where you can shrink
    into a tiny wight spider
    and gorge on horrid memories
    with conceited wings
    
    Smother the past in a cocoon
    or me
    and I'll help you move
    all the bodies
    
    I'll possess you but I don't need you
    to be another one of my posessions
    I don't need you to be my possession
    
    And I won't make you kneel,
    for anyone but me
    Won't promise a star,
    don't promise your soul
    We'll say that we don't believe
    
    I'll keep you wet when the world is dry
    I can see them coming
    I'll take you back inside
    if they came for answers
    I'll wrap my claws around your mouth tight
    we'll consume each other
    until there's nothing left to hide
    and they can all drown in our blood
    
    I'll possess you but I don't need you
    to be another one of my posessions
    I don't need you to be my possession
    
    And I won't make you kneel,
    for anyone but me
    Won't promise a star,
    don't promise your soul
    We'll say that we don't believe
    
    And I won't make you kneel,
    for anyone but me
    Won't promise a star,
    don't promise your soul
    We'll say that we don't believe
    
    We'll say that we don't believe
    
    We can't haunt this home,
    home anymore
    no, no, no, no, no, no
    We can't haunt this home,
    home anymore
    no, no, no, no, no, no
    We can't haunt this home,
    home anymore
    no, no, no, no, no, no
    We can't haunt this home,
    home anymore
    no, no, no, no, no, no

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Marilyn Manson 'High End Of Low' Album Track-By-Track. Metal Hammer. April 7, 2009.
2. ↑ Marilyn Manson's High End Of Low Reviewed Track-By-Track. John Robb. The Quietus. May 12, 2009