Word play in Marilyn Manson songs
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This page lists lyrics of songs by Marilyn Manson which incorporate alliterations, portmanteaus, puns, etc...
This list is incomplete.
Alliterations[edit]
- "The Beautiful People": "Old-fashioned fascism"
- "Minute of Decay": "too tired today to hate"
- "Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)"
- "Burning Flag": "They gyrate and g-rate on election day"
- "mOBSCENE": "Your freedom's not free and dumb"
- "Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth": "I'm on a campaign for pain"
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Don't Say No, Just Say Now"
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Inhale, exhale, let's all hail"
- "The Bright Young Things": "I'm most monster with my groan box"
- "Doppelherz": "Caucasian occasion"
- "Doppelherz": "The young are too senile, the young sieg heil"
- "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3": "if you want to lie with me, you're gonna be a liar"
- "Blank and White": "I want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate"
- "We're from America": "we turn literature into litter."
- "Overneath the Path of Misery": "So I say whatever or for never"
- "The Gardener": "A muse, your amusement, I am used"
Portmanteaus[edit]
- "Organ Grinder": "Calliopenis" (Calliope + Penis)
- "Mechanical Animals": "phenobarbidoll" (phenobarbital + Barbie doll)
- "Mechanical Animals": "manniqueen" (mannequin + queen)
- "New Model No. 15": "And I'm vague and I know that I'm Homopolitan" (references to Vogue and Cosmopolitan + homogeneous)
- "Cruci-Fiction in Space": (Crucifiction + fiction)
- "The Fall of Adam": "Abraham Lincoln Town Cars" (Abraham Lincoln + Lincoln Town Cars)
- "Thaeter": (theater + Täter, German for offender)
- "mOBSCENE": (mob scene + obscene)
- "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "Swing heil" (swing + sieg heil)
- "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "cocaingels" (cocaine + angels)
- "The Golden Age of Grotesque": "We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI" (gloom + Illuminati)
- "The Golden Age of Grotesque": "The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS" (cabaret legends + scab + sacrilegious)
- "(s)AINT": (saint + ain't)
- "(s)AINT": "suffer-genius" (suffer + genius + suffragette)
- "(s)AINT": "Vivi-sex symbol" (vivisection + sex symbol)
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "We're a death-marching band" (death march + marching band)
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Porn poms" (porn + pom-poms)
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Dumbo jets" (Dumbo + jumbo jet)
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "hardcore-vettes" (hardcore + corvettes)
- "Better of Two Evils": "Paparazzinazis" (paparazzi + nazis)
- "Vodevil": (vaudeville + evil)
- "Vodevil": "fagazines" (fag + magazines)
- "Para-noir": (paranoid + noir)
- "Doppelherz": "brainforest" (brain + rain forest)
- "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon": (Armageddon + goddamn + motherfucking)
- "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon": "nervous breakdance" (nervous breakdown + breakdance)
Puns / Paranomasias[edit]
- "Luci in the Sky with Demons": (from the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
- "Shitty Chicken Gang Bang": (from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a 1968 film)
- "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)": "15 minutes of shame" (from the phrase 15 minutes of fame by Andy Warhol)
- "New Model No. 15": "Correctly political" (from politically correct)
- "New Model No. 15": "I'm spun and I know I'm stoned and rolling" (references the magazines Spin and Rolling Stone)
- "GodEatGod": (from dog eat dog)
- "Cruci-Fiction in Space": "the Adam/atom of Eden was a bomb"
- "mOBSCENE": "We are the thing of shapes to come" (from The Shape of Things to Come, a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells)
- "mOBSCENE": "Be obscene and not heard" (from be seen and not heard. Women should be obscene and not heard is a phrase by Oscar Wilde.)
- "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "pin-down girls" (from pin-up girl)
- "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "Venus Not In Furs" (from Venus in furs, a novella from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "We're tasteless but taste good"
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "It's a depraved new world After all" (from Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley; also refers to the Disney song It's a Small World After All)
- "Vodevil": "Total Requested Dead" (from Total Request Live)
- "If I Was Your Vampire": "The hole is where the heart is" (from home is where the heart is)
- "Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery" (from imitation is the most sincere form of flattery)
- "Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery": "Rebels without applause" (from Rebel Without a Cause, a 1955 film)
- "Blank and White" (from black and white)
- "Blank and White": "apocalypse 'how'" (from Apocalypse now, a 1979 war film)
- "Pistol Whipped": "I wanna have your ache and beat you too" (from the phrase "Have your cake and eat it too")
- "Warship My Wreck": (from worship my wreck)
Others[edit]
- "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag"
- "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "godmod"
- "The Golden Age of Grotesque": "Van Goh"
- "(s)AINT": "I've got an F and a C and I got a K too And the only thing missing is a bitch like yoU"
- "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "My (S)top hat's top hat(ed)"
- "The Bright Young Things": "We've got the loudest stereotype"
- "Vodevil": "Version point (less) downloadable suicide"
- "Obsequey (The Death of Art)"
- "Obsequey (The Death of Art)": "reverof"
- "Doppelherz": "My pupils are not students, they dilate but they never learn"
- "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3": "Murdercute happyrape"
- "Slo-Mo-Tion": "Fast-food-nude"