Minute of Decay

"Minute of Decay"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Antichrist Superstar
Released	October 8, 1996
Recorded	1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana
Genre	Alternative rock, gothic rock
Length	4:44
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Marilyn Manson
Producer	Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson

"Minute of Decay" is the fourteenth track on the 1996 release Antichrist Superstar. The opening sample "From a dead man... greetings" was sampled from the movie adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The first thirty seconds of the song were sometimes used as an intro to "Tourniquet" during the Against All Gods tour.

Appearances

Albums

• Antichrist Superstar

Versions

• Minute of Decay — Appears on Antichrist Superstar.
• The Minute of Decay (Demo) — Appears on Antichrist Final Songs.

Lyrics

   there's not much left to love
   too tired today to hate
   I feel the empty
   I feel the minute of decay
   I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take
   you with me
   I'm on my way down
   I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take
   you with me
   I'm on my way down
   the minute that it's born
   it begins to die
   I'd love to just give in,
   I'd love to live this lie
   I've been to black and back
   I've whited out my name
   a lack of pain, a lack of hope,
   a lack of anything to say
   there is no cure for what is killing me
   I'm on my way down
   I've looked ahead and saw a
   world that's dead
   I guess that I am too
   the minute that it's born
   it begins to die
   I'd love to just give in,
   I'd love to live this lie
   I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take
   you with me...

Trivia

• As noted in his book, Manson started to cry while recording the vocals to this song.