Stained Glass
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| "Stained Glass" from The Long Hard Road Out of Hell | ||
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| Written by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Released: | February 14, 1998 | |
| Illustrator: | P. R. Brown | |
| Publisher: | ReganBooks | |
| Narrator: | ||
| Media type: | Print (Paperback) | |
| Length: | 288 pages | |
| ISBN: | 0060392584 | |
"Stained Glass" is a poem Brian Warner wrote to Night Terrors magazine in 1988. The letters along with the poem can be found in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
Poem[edit]
In the wooden silence
genuflecting fornicators
seek penance and false-toothed
idealists throw grub steaks on the offering plate
light a candle for the sinners
light a fire
self-pronounced prophet, parable seeking Protestant
preaches his diatomic dogma,
disembowelling indiscreetly.
Supplicate
congregate
the world looks better through stained glass
light a candle for the sinners
set the world on fire
Falsities
Falsities
Falsified, Factuality’s
All sitting like eager sponges,
soaking up the tertiary realities of life.
Trivia[edit]
- The poem can be found on page 58 in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
- The line "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire" was to be used 8 years later in the song "1996".
- The line "Falsities, falsities, falsified factuality's" was used in "All Fall Down", their first live-in-rehearsal track with former bassist Olivia Newton Bundy.
