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Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low lyrics



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01. Devour

I'll swallow up all of you like a big bottle of big, big pills
You're the one that I should never take
But I can't sleep until I devour you
I can't sleep until I devour you

You're a flower that's withering
I can't feel your thorns in my head
This is no impressionability

You're not crying, this is blood all over me
You're not crying, this is blood all over me
You're not crying, this is blood all over me

And I'll love you if you let me
And I'll love you if you won't make me starve

I used to hold your heart to neck
I know I'll miss you if I close my eyes
But this is loaded with an open film
I'll see you and I'll blow your heart to pieces

I will blow your heart to pieces
I will blow your heart to pieces
I will blow your heart to pieces

And I'll love you if you let me
And I'll love you if you won't make me starve

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself
Pain's not ashamed to repeat itself
Pain's not ashamed to repeat itself
Pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

I can't sleep until I devour you
I can't sleep until I devour you
I can't sleep until I devour you
I can't sleep until I devour you
I can't sleep until I devour you

And I'll love you if you let me
And I'll love you if you won't make me starve

02. Pretty As A Swastika

When I see you in the sun
You're as pretty as a swastika
Take you down, down from the inside
Take you down, down from the inside

Smash into your face like a plane
And drown in between your legs
Take you down, down from the inside
Take you down, down from the inside

But I'd die for your sins
If you don't kill me while I'm trying, baby

Let me show you where it hurts
Let me show you where it hurts
Let me show you where it hurts
There's more than one way to make you cry

When I see you in the sun
You're as pretty as a swastika
When I see you in the sun
You're as pretty as a swastika

Take you down, down from the inside
Take you down, down from the inside
One of us is a knife
One of us is ripe, baby

Let me show you where it hurts
Let me show you where it hurts
Let me show you where it hurts
There's more than one way to make you cry

Let me show you where it hurts
Let me show you where it hurts
Let me show you where it hurts
There's more than one way to make you cry

03. Leave A Scar

It's not like I made myself a list
Of new and different ways to murder your heart
I'm just a painting that's still wet, if you touch me I'll be smeared
You'll be stained, stained for the rest of your life

So turn around, walk away
Before you confuse the way we abuse each other
If you're not afraid of getting hurt
Then I'm not afraid of how much I hurt you

I'm well aware I'm a danger to myself
Are you aware I'm a danger to others?
There's a crack in my soul, you thought was a smile

Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar
Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar

I'm more like a silver bullet
And I'm like a gun, not easy to hold
I'm moving fast and if I stay inside your heart
I'm certain that this will be the end of your life

So turn around, walk away
Before you confuse the way we abuse each other
If you're not afraid of getting hurt
Then I'm not afraid of how much I hurt you

I'm well aware I'm a danger to myself
Are you aware I'm a danger to others?
There's a crack in my soul, you thought was a smile

Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar
Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar
Leave a scar, leave a scar
Whatever doesn't kill you gonna leave a scar

She warned you that she may fuck me
But chances are I'm gonna fuck you over

Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar
Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar
Leave a scar, leave a scar
Whatever doesn't kill you gonna leave a scar

04. Four Rusted Horses

Ride this dying carousel
Four rusted horses strangled by their own rope
Where children love are singing
We'll know that their tired hearts had broke
That their tired hearts had broke

Everyone will come, everyone will come
To my funeral to make sure that I stay dead
Everyone will come, everyone will come
To my funeral to make sure that I stay dead, dead

I can see the coffin shining through my tinted window
Must've missed the sign that said it was a fire sale
I can see the coffin shining through my tinted window
Must've missed the sign that said it was a fire sale

Everyone will come, everyone will come
To my funeral to make sure that I stay dead
Everyone will come, everyone will come
To my funeral to make sure that I stay dead

You can't take this from me
Forbidden in heaven and useless in hell
You can't take this from me
Forbidden in heaven and useless in hell, useless in hell

But I can see the coffin shining through my tinted window
Must've missed the sign that said it was a fire sale
I can see the coffin shining through my tinted window
Must've missed the sign that said it was a fire sale

Everyone will come, everyone will come
To my funeral to make sure that I stay dead
Everyone will come, everyone will come
To my funeral to make sure that I stay dead

You can't take this from me
Forbidden in heaven and useless in hell
You can't take this from me
Forbidden in heaven and useless in hell

You can't take this from me
Forbidden in heaven and useless in hell
You can't take this from me
Forbidden in heaven and useless in hell, useless in hell

Ride this dying carousel
Four rusted horses strangled by their own rope
Where children love are singing
We'll know that their tired hearts had broke
That their tired hearts had broke
Now that their tired hearts had broke

05. Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon

Death to the ladies first then the gentlemen
All sorts of tax and face lifts, abortion
Nervous break dance, satanic girls gone wild
Truly fuckin' suicidal

First you try to fuck it then you try to eat it
If it hasn't learned your name you better kill him before they see it
First you try to fuck it then you try to eat it
If it hasn't learned your name you better kill him before they see it

It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Fuck, eat, kill, do it again
It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Fuck, eat, kill, etcetera

First you try to fuck it then you try to eat it
If it hasn't learned your name you better kill him before they see it
It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon

I've got a blackened soul, morals in a hole, wish I was so dead
Now the TV set's a sharp and cold depression
Pointless intervention, illegal separation, call my dealer
I want my lawyer, we've got a situation

First you try to fuck it then you try to eat it
If it hasn't learned your name you better kill him before they see it
First you try to fuck it then you try to eat it
If it hasn't learned your name you better kill him before they see it

It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Fuck, eat, kill, do it again
It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Fuck, eat, kill, etcetera

On the news or is it the noose?
The same results may vary, side effects all vary
Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon

Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon

It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Fuck, eat, kill, do it again
It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
Fuck, eat, kill, etcetera

Fuck your goddamn TV and the radio
Fuck makin' hits, I'm takin' credit for the death toll
It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon

It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
It's Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon

06. Blank And White

As if we need a why, I'll be it
And I'll the who for an Apocalypse how
If the world had one neck, my hands would be the where
And I would choke all of you down, I would choke all of you down
I would choke all of you down

Give me a picket sign
Make it blank and white
Like all those stupid teenage girls
We are gonna to need them where we're going tonight

All you fuckers vote beep, beep, beep
In drunk karaoke cars
If it's too dumb to see or say, you still sing it
And I'll just cue the applause

Let's make sure the music's loud enough
We won't even hear it end
Let's make sure the music's loud enough
We won't even hear it end

Give me a picket sign
Make it blank and white
Like all those stupid teenage girls
We are gonna to need them where we're going tonight

I wanna celebrate, I wanna sell your hate
Today's the day you're gonna fucking die
I wanna celebrate, I wanna sell your hate
Your demons wanna give you a proper goodbye

All you fuckers vote beep, beep, beep
In drunk karaoke cars
If it's too dumb to see or say, you still sing it
And I'll just cue the applause
If it's too dumb to see or say, you still sing it
And I'll just cue the applause

Give me a picket sign
Make it blank and white
Like all those stupid teenage girls
We are gonna to need them where we're going tonight

I wanna celebrate, I wanna sell your hate
Today's the day you're gonna fucking die
I wanna celebrate, I wanna sell your hate
Your demons wanna give you a proper goodbye

I wanna celebrate, I wanna sell your hate
Today's the day you're gonna fucking die
I wanna celebrate, I wanna sell your hate
Your demons wanna give you a proper goodbye

Give me a picket sign
God is dead but God is still white
Shoot up the mall, the school
Or whoever wants to fight

Let's make sure the music's loud enough
Let's make sure the music's loud enough
Let's make sure the music's loud enough
We won't hear it end, end, end
Let's make sure the music's loud enough we won't hear it end

07. Running To The Edge Of The World

Remember when I took you up to the top of the hill
We had our knives drawn, they were as sharp as we were in love
If God crossed us we'd take all his drugs
Burn his money and his house down and wait for the fire to spread

Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes
Together as one against all others
Break all of their wings and make sure that it crashes

We're running to the edge of the world
Running, running away
We're running to the edge of the world
I don't know if the world will end today

I had no choice to erase the debt of our families
Let you say goodbye with lips like dynamite
Everyone turned their backs 'cause they knew
When we held on tight to each other
We were something fatal that fell into the wrong hands

Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes
Together as one against all others
Break all of their wings and make sure that it crashes

We're running to the edge of the world
Running, running away
We're running to the edge of the world
I don't know if the world will end today

We don't seek death, we seek destruction
Death, we seek destruction
We don't seek death, we seek destruction
Death, we seek destruction

We're running to the edge of the world
Running, running away
We're running to the edge of the world
But I don't know if the world will end today

We're running to the edge of the world
Running, running away
We're running to the edge of the world
I don't know if the world will end today

See a new beginning rise behind the sun
We could never catch up to them as fast as we run
See a new beginning rise behind the sun
We could never catch up to them as fast as we run

See a new beginning rise behind the sun
We could never catch up to them as fast as we run
See a new beginning rise behind the sun
We could never catch up to them as fast as we run

08. I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies

I wanna fuck you like a foreign film
And there's no subtitles to get you through this
And I'm a country you don't ever, ever, ever, ever
Ever wanna visit again

Line up, roll camera, you pretend, I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut
Line up, roll camera, you pretend, I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut, cut

I wanna kill you like they do in the movies
Don't worry there's another one just like you in line
I wanna kill you like they do in the movies
Don't worry there's another one just like you in line

Line up, roll camera, you pretend, I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut
Line up, roll camera, you pretend, I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut, cut

I'm a strip, strip, strip
And I flicker, flick, flick, flick
A flicker of celluloid
And there's holes, holes, holes in my everything

I'm a strip, strip, strip
And I flicker, flick, flick, flick
A flicker of celluloid
And there's holes, holes, holes in my everything

Just what I projected
Just want to project it
Come in, come in, come in, come in
Come in, come in, come in, come inside

So much, much, much more skin to break
I haven't even taken off my gloves
So much, much, much more skin to break
I haven't even taken off my gloves

I feel a little sorry baby, I feel a little sorry baby
I hear the afterlife is poorly scored
I feel a little sorry baby, I feel a little sorry baby
I hear the afterlife is poorly scored

You're lucky you don't have to wake up
Sick, sick, sick, sick
I'm sick of immortality, I'm sick of immortality
I'm sick of immortality

Only acting baby
Only acting baby
I was only acting baby
You're overacting baby

Don't confuse it with love
Don't confuse it with love
Don't confuse it with love
Don't confuse it with love

Every time I kill you I'm really just killing myself
Every time I kill you I'm really just killing myself
Every time I kill you I'm really just killing myself
Don't flatter yourself, don't flatter yourself

This is business not pleasure baby
This is business not pleasure baby
Business of pleasure baby
This is business not pleasure baby
This is business, this is business

I wanna kill you like they do in the movies
Don't worry there's another one just like you standing in line
I wanna kill you like they do in the movies
Don't worry there's another one just like you standing in line

Line up, roll camera, you pretend and I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut, cut
Line up, roll camera, you pretend and I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut, cut

09. WOW

I had a dream, this one I feel the need to mention
I was happy for awhile and I stopped being scared
And ashamed to say what's on my mind
But you thought I'd change after awhile
And said, "You'd better treat me different or else"

Or else seems like a stupid fucking thing to say
To someone like me, someone like me

Wow, wow, wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow

Don't be surprised, I can look you in the eye
It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
Don't be surprised, I can look you in the eye
It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside

I'm worse than what you think you'd catch from me
Complicated's understated
Did you stop and take a look at who you fell in love with?
At who you fell in love with

It doesn't matter, how many times I say it
It never gets old that's why I have to say

Wow, wow, wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow

Don't be surprised, I can look you in the eye
It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
Don't be surprised, I can look you in the eye
It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside

It doesn't matter if you're going to come or just going
I never wanted you to come here anyway
There's a word that's like you because it can be a noun
A verb, an exclamation or the thing I say

When something is unbelievable
When I'm not able to believe how unbelievably unbelievable
That you believe you could not be leaveable
That's when I have to say

Wow, wow, wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow

Don't be surprised, I can look you in the eye
It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
Don't be surprised, I can look you in the eye
It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside

It doesn't matter how many times I say it
It never gets old that's why I have to say
Wow

10. Wight Spider

I'll build you a shiny doll house 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

And I'll possess you but I don't need you
To be another one of my possessions
I don't need you to be my possession

And I won't make you kneel for anyone but me
I 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 answer
Wrap my claws round your mouth tight

We'll consume each other
Until there's nothing left to hide
And they can all drown in our blood

And I'll possess you but I don't need you
To be another one of my possessions
I don't need you to be my possession

And I won't make you kneel for anyone but me
I 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
I 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
We can't haunt this home, home anymore
No, no, no, no, no

We can't haunt this home, home anymore
No, no, no, no, no
We can't haunt this home, home anymore
No, no, no, no, no

11. Unkillable Monster

How the fuck are we supposed to know
When I'm a monster, the way you refuse to die?
How the fuck are we supposed to know
If we're in love or if we're in pain?

I'm a tightrope walker, I can't find my circus
And I'm damaged beyond repair
You're just a coffin of a girl I knew
And I'm buried in you

You never said I'll end up like this
You never said I'll end up like this
No, no, no, no

Sometimes I dream I'm an exterminating angel
A traveling executioner from heaven
Sent to give you the prettiest death I know
Call the grave and make our reservations

You never said I'll end up like this
You never said I'll end up like this, no
You never said I'll end up like this
You never said I'll end up like this
No, no, no, no

Are we in love or are we in pain?
Are we in love or are we in pain?
Are we in love or are we in pain?
Are we in love or are we in pain?

How the fuck are we supposed to know
When I'm a monster, the way you refuse to die?
How the fuck are we supposed to know
If we're in love or if we're in pain?

Why is my wound a front door to you?
Am I my own shadow?
Why is my wound a front door to you?
Am I my own shadow?

12. We're From America

We're from America, we're from America
Where we eat our young
We're from America, we're from America
It's where Jesus was born

We're from America, we're from America
Where they let you come on their faces
We're from America, we're from America
We speak American

We don't believe in credibility
Because we're know that we're fucking incredible
We don't believe in credibility
Because we're know that we're fucking incredible

I want to be a martyr, don't want to be a victim
Be a killer with a gun, so they call me a hero
I want to be a martyr, don't want to be a victim
Be a killer with a gun, so they call me a hero

God is an excuse, God is an excuse
God is an excuse, God is an excuse
God is an excuse, God is an excuse
God is an excuse so sing it with me

We're from America, we're from America
We're from America, can you sing it with me?
We're from America, we're from America
We're from America, can you sing it with me?

We're from America

We don't like to kill our unborn
We need them to grow up and fight our wars
We don't like to kill our unborn
We need them to grow up and fight our wars

We believe in everything we say
We say it because we believe it
We believe in everything we say
We say it because we believe it

We're from America, we're from America
We're from America, can you sing it with me?
We're from America, we're from America
We're from America, can you sing it with me?

We're from America, can you sing it with me?
We're from America, can you sing it with me?

We're from America, we're from America
We turn literature into litter
We're from America, we're from America
We believe in being a quitter

I'm in recovery, I'm in recovery
I'm in recovery

From America, from America
From America

So sing it with me

We're from America, we're from America
We're from America, can you sing it with me?
We're from America, we're from America
We're from America, can you sing it with me? Yes

We're from America, can you sing it with me?
We're from America, can you sing it with me?

(We eat our young, we eat our young)
We're from America, can you sing it with me?
(We eat our young, we eat our young)
We're from America, can you sing it with me?

(We eat our young, we eat our young)
We're from America, can you sing it with me?
(We eat our young, we eat our young)
We're from America, can you sing it with me?

13. I Have To Look Up Just To See Hell

The fruit is speechless before our sorceries
The party has just begun
Time lapse and dancing and rotting in place
And we've reached the high end of low
The high end of low, the high end of low

You can take me, grave can take me
The earth is waiting to eat us alive
I love you damaged, I need human wreckage
And I have to look up just to see hell

Fallen, fallen, fallen from grace
As for you this is why you should run
Fallen, fallen, fallen from grace
As for you this is why you should run

The core of a woman is where her body
Chooses to revolve like a corpse
Centrifugal, melted under the skin, bacteria
Into the napalm heart I explode, I explode, I explode

You can take me, grave can take me
The earth is waiting to eat us alive
I love you damaged, I need human wreckage
And I have to look up just to see hell

Fallen, fallen, fallen from grace
As for you this is why you should run
Fallen, fallen, fallen from grace
As for you this is why you should run

The light shines in the darkness
And the darkness will never understand it
The light shines in the darkness
And the darkness will never understand it

The light shines in the darkness
And the darkness will never understand it
The light shines in the darkness
And the darkness will never understand it

You can take me, grave can take me
The earth is waiting to eat us alive
I love you damaged, I need human wreckage
And I have to look up just to see hell

You can take me, grave can take me
The earth is waiting to eat us alive
I love you damaged, I need human wreckage
And I have to look up just to see hell

14. Into The Fire

This is the film, close to the third act and the misery
It's not rain you rapist werewolves, it's God pissing down on you

You won't die alone 'cause I'll break off my own arms
Sharpen my bones, stab you once for each time
I thought you were trying to take something
You'll never be good enough to even look upon

It's better to push something when it's slipping
Than to risk being dragged down

If you wanna hit bottom don't bother to try taking me with you
I won't answer if you call
Two heartbeats down in, in hell
Trying to break your fall, your fall

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names
Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred
Isn't one nail without dirt under it?
Isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red?

It's better to push something when it's slipping
Than to risk being dragged down

If you wanna hit bottom don't bother to try taking me with you
I won't answer if you call
Two heartbeats down in, in hell
Trying to break your fall, your fall

Into the fire, into the fire
Into the fire, into the fire
Into the fire, into the fire
Into the fire, into the fire
Into the fire

15. 15

If you can hear this don't assume that I'm talking to you
Yesterday everything I thought, I believed in died
But today is my birthday, today is my birthday

I don't need you, I'll say it to myself
It doesn't mean I won't need somebody
Anyone with half a soul will hear this and they'll never leave me

If you don't know what forever feels like
I'll show you what it feels like without it
I'll show you what it feels like without it

This time I won't hesitate to kill to protect what I believe in
This time I won't hesitate to kill to protect what I believe in

And I can get by now, I'm not really dead
But I really needed someone to save me
Leaving me alone to die
Is worse than having any guts to kill me

If you don't know what forever feels like
I'll show you what it feels like without it
I'll show you what it feels like without it

This time I won't hesitate to kill to protect what I believe in
This time I won't hesitate to kill to protect what I believe in

Not letting you win won't satisfy me
I'll teach you about loss
Not letting you win won't satisfy me
I'll teach you about loss

Not letting you win won't satisfy me
I'll teach you about loss
Not letting you win won't satisfy me
I'll teach you about loss

Not letting you win won't satisfy me
I'll teach you about loss
Not letting you win won't satisfy me
I'll teach you about loss