Cody Gearheart It's a clusterfuck situation. What sucks about it is thinking if all the stigmatizing was crippling enough to affect his future songs without him worrying about if his music really drove two souls to annihilate others in high school. From a long time fan, I didn't really care for anything after Mechanical Animals. I think his creativity was somewhat smothered ruthlessly and left to be collapsed.
This sentence really touched me and let me know he is and intelligent person, that's why I like him and why I like his songs, paintings, and his story.
I think he said that in the Interview with Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) to the question what he would say to the families, survivors and the protesters at the time. Still powerful statement from an incredible person.
This needs more context as Manson wasn’t talking about the shooters, rather the families of the victims and protestors. His response was very well thought and showed just how in tune and aware he is with dealing with trauma and people which is why his music is so therapeutic in a very dark and beautiful way.
AVeryComedicTrashbag ™ Oh, Idk what that is 😂😂 I just heard this song on the radio a few nights ago and liked it, I didn't know who it was by and I still love it 😂
That line always gets me..im a combat vet. Lost an eye to an IED hitting our vehicle. 4 combat tours, saw a lot of shit, had ti do a lot i wish i didn't have to...wound up being fed oxycontin, methadone, vicodin and clonazepam by the bottle for years and years like s fucking Guinea pig. PTSD and severe pain just being masked until the shit barekt worked anymore. Now i just try and power through it and same with the long, long detox taper im on. Still, im in shape enougj to teach self defense and do competition pistol shootin like IDPA and also teach boxing at Gene Fulmers. My old trainer, now passed. And try ti help other vets and addicts out as best i can reintegrate into society. The world seems so slow and off when you come home from combat
@@TheBoxingCannabyte it's because we don't comprehend what you saw, did, and went thru. Is why it seems so slow. You and your brothers who have to come home fucked up so the rest of us never have to see what you saw makes you all fucking heros in my book. You're underserved and underappreciated when you come home and have to try putting yourselves back together. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you've done for us. If life played out a little differently, and I wasn't deaf, idda joined up too.
Was addicted to meth. Legit quit cold turkey in March when i found out i was meeting Marilyn manson in August. I wanted to be alive for it. Even if you dont show up, i tried and i still havent failed.
Well update us on the journey please! How was the concert and how was the journey to sobriety? If u fall off. Just brush off the dirt and keep going..Nikki Sixx spoke volumes when he said #LifeIsBeautiful .
A good friend of mine from high school Introduced me to Manson with portrait of an american family. All the meds he got over the years and he couldn't be saved from himself. This June will be 8 years and we all miss him something aweful.
I know this song has different meanings for everyone but it reminds me of my dark days as a teenager where I was addicted to adderall and depressed. I took so much to the point where I thought my heart would explode out of my chest because it was beating so fast. I didn’t stop taking them because as much as it hurt me I lived the feeling and it made me super skinny. Like unhealthy skinny. I still thought I was fat. I swear I had body dysmorphia. I wanted to be somebody else. Someone attractive and outgoing and energetic. That’s just not me and I accept that now. I’m glad I got off the pills.
i feel ya, been clean off pills for 11 years now. never went back to that life. I am 41 now and this song too actually reminds me of that time when i OD'd. After that day is when i quit, it was accidental, almost lost my life. But I lost my kids and everything else, eventually got them back, it was a battle from hell. Glad you are doing better, just stay on that path. Things get better :)
Reminds me of my dark times when I was going through a tragic break up and losing a dear old friend from drugs, thank you Marilyn Manson for existing, the day I could ever meet him, I don't think I would be able to say a word other than tears of joy
The Fat Turtle listen here u fat fucking turtle. i have nothing to follow up with that. i just wanted to say "fat fucking turtle". have a womderful day
it's the emotion. It's one of his rawest songs from a raw emotion album that comes from a dark corner in all our hearts sung in the honesty of a moment of pain.
I'll come right out and say it, Marilyn Manson is the greatest lyricist of our time, and an extremely underrated one since no one seems to actually listen to the words the man speaks and the stories his albums tell.
I remember when this song first came out. I was like 14 years old and Manson and Rob Zombie was in. Everybody was listening to it. Now, not many kids listen to this shit anymore. Sucks but oh well. Fuck, I'm getting old.
It's kind of weird cuz this song is older than me by a few months lol but I always heard this growing up cuz my older brother was a huge fan of Mansons stuff. So in a way it's nostalgic
This song has so much meaning to me, and it was one of my favorites that he played when I saw him live, it looked like it was snowing on stage when it played. Best night of my life.
gotta laugh at these comments, i know your heart is in the right place but manson had his hay day of everyone attacking him, when he was his most famous around 2002 - 2008 not 2015. the peopel that did attack him and the people that loved him are all grown up now. the media at that time were scared of people who pushed far out ideas in the 90s and 2000s. All the teenagers now listening to this be glad that Manson has become half acceptable in mainstream adulthood then when i grew up listening to this.
This song always reminded me of my nephew (obviously you'd have to invert the pronouns, don't even start), always feeling outcast from society and unwilling (perhaps unable) to conform to any authority. He sought solace in drugs and the chasing of sensual pleasure, reasoning that in the absence of any meaning to life (and the rejection of the meanings others tried to place upon him), the only purpose he had was to indulge in all the carnal delights life had to offer. He was never selfish in this pursuit, always willing to share his drugs, introduce his friends to sexually-available women, or include them in the simple activities which brought him joy (such as walking in the woods, swimming in lakes and rivers, starting a bonfire, or smoking a joint on the back porch and listening to music as the sun went down), and if he considered you worth caring about he was unquestionably your brother and would do anything to protect and care for you. He was an angry boy, a defiant boy, and (I believe deep down) a very sad and confused boy, but he was never a bad boy. He was not a sociopath, much as he probably wished he was (and certainly pretended to be), and he was not at all without intelligence or understanding despite his lackluster grades and anti-intellectual posturing. He simply lived the way he wanted, and though he understood the dangers inherent in his lifestyle, he willingly accepted the risks as the price of living free and unfettered. He died three years ago in a car accident. A woman he was accompanying on a drug-fueled joyride drove her car into a tree in an attempt to kill another passenger, and he was killed instead because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt (he never liked seatbelts, considering them restrictive, and often sneered at the vanity he saw in taking such precautionary measures, the human delusion of safety that he knew didn't really exist), while the woman driving sustained a broken nose and her intended victim merely broke his arm. That woman who accidentally killed my nephew while attempting to kill someone else received sixty days in jail and five years of probation. She's walking around free right now, while my sister mourns her only son and my family wallows in grief over his passing, but I don't hate the woman who killed him. I don't wish death on her in exchange for his life, because I know my nephew would have just laughed off her stupidity and said "Well, shit happens. We're all born to die. At least I died high." I miss you, Poozer. I always will. Wherever you are, if you're anywhere at all, I hope you're experiencing the transendence and peace you once sought in a bag of weed or a hit of acid, and I hope you save some for me if we ever do meet again. And if it turns out you're nowhere, then that's even better, because I know now what you always knew but could never articulate to me: That oblivion is the ultimate peace.
I'm sorry for your loss. And for that young man only knowing how to throw his life away. But oblivion is not the ultimate peace. Per MM's Coma White lyrics "all the drugs in this world wont save her from herself." The meanings are very clear. It's YOU who has to save yourself. No one else, not a well-meaning aunt or a girl you share a spliff with is going to rescue you. It's by being your own hero and facing life is where the "peace" comes from. Not because there's no more strife but because you feel confident in facing it. If he had ALLOWED himself to begin to face his pain rather than continually run from it by dosing himself then that nihilism you describe wouldnt have happened. Meaningless happens because we look in places where there are no meanings so of course we're always going to end up empty handed. The "wrong" place he was looking was outside of himself; and, he unintentionally forced himself to keep looking outside of himself for meanings because inside of himself where the meanings are he obscurded with numbing himself. I'm not attacking you or that young man. But to endorse numbing at a song where many of the listeners are numbed out I can't support and have to say something. Cheers.
@@jessaustin1122 Honestly however insensitive my comment may be/have been, I was probably speaking more about myself than the boy in question. At the same time I do stand by my comment however extreme or poorly timed it is. This song probably attracts people with suicidal ideation and for someone who's emotionally unrooted to read a comment "oblivion = peace" isn't helping anybody. It's romanticizing dysfunctional behaviors for people who probably never got the chance to internalize (and therefore experience) anything approaching sanity and positive emotional well being. Most of all it implies there's no hope and things are beyond repair. Yet there is hope and beauty in abundance in this world if only we'd allow ourselves to see it and be patient enough for the storm clouds to pass. The warmth of the sun is always there above the tempest whether or not we can see it... I am sorry for the loss of that boy and for the poster's pain.
Manson himself should've realized it sooner. I mean, you still have songs like "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)" or "The Dope Show" on the exact same album...
In 91 I woke in San Francisco General Hospital from a massive brain injury coma. I went home to 887 40th ave. and wrote an album called White Coma. It was rock from the other side. Marilyn's music is a sweet comforting bloody slice of that emotional horror with out all the invasiveness. Thank You Marilyn, Love Brooze
Juan Venegas What type of evidence do you have to support your comment? I don't know, I feel like people are really weird, everyone has a bit of freak in them, then its just levels.
No. I feel like you all have poor definitions of "weird" and "freak". I may be weird myself seeing as normal people throw that word around like they have seen something but I mean from jail to the hospital to the middle of the woods to center city of every city on the east coast. I've seen some shit and I am a creature of habbit
New favorite song of this month, definitely made me a bit more of a Manson fan, just saw him play it live the other day when he opened for smashing pumpkins... blown away. Good stuff..
That sounds good to me, idc what you call it i was there for both bands and the show was amazing. I was just goin by standard bc manson went on first when i saw them in jersey.
@@aprileve2113 Truth though. These days every other add is one for a pill for this a pill for that. They try to convince everyone they're depressed and want them to be prescribed pills.
@@aprileve2113 Funny thing. I just noticed this in the comments. I had forgotten all about this old comment. I never get the responses here on youtube when someone responds to a response. Weird to scroll the comments and than see an old comment you totally forgot about and wasn't even expecting to see
this song reminds me of a friend of mine whos suicidal, no matter how much help she gets she still gets those suicidal thoughts. "A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb, a pill to make you anybody else. But all the drugs in this world won't save her from herself." that chorus reminds me of her.
so I was around when Marilyn Manson first came out and now my daughter loves Marilyn Manson and it's really cool that it's something that we both can love together! :-)
I love listening locking myself in my dark room, putting on my headphones, and just listening to this song while bawling my eyes out. This song hits almost too close to home.
I'm a black hip hop head ...(real hip hop like Roots, Lupe Fiasco, Outkast, Mos Def!) but I absolutely relate to this song and Marilyn Manson himself. Can't tell me music can't transcend color. Long live great musicians.
i still remember the first time i listened to this album and this song... wow, one of the best experiences in my life, i cant believe its been 13 years... time flies...
You know, and this has been pure fanfiction of mine, now that Lady Gaga is in American Horror Story, do you think Marilyn Manson should appear in the sixth season?, I mean, with his personality and awesome gothic look he totally might fit in, plus, what if he could have some partnership with Gaga?, I think that would be some kind of evil, but awesome chemistry
This song takes me back to my childhood. So many antidepressants an no one of them worked, though I was taking them for my parents and not for myself. That may explain it
ill agree he is a weirdo, but he speaks to kids from all over, and we love him for that, he SCREAMS classic 90s music....when music was at its peak.... deftones, green day, sum 41, it will just never be the same
I hate all the shit that's out there today, what the fuck happened? It all just disappeared WHY? Its all fucking hip hop autotuned bullshit .All the great bands I grew up with are gone.I guess rock is dead.But I' still believe rock can make a comeback .It would be a dream come true to see new bands like the ones I went to see in the seventies and eighties when you would see like four amazing bands .Ive been to so many great shows .Its not to late.It can happen again.It has to.Idont even listen to the radio anymore.At least I kept all my vinyl.
Exactly! The first Marilyn Manson song I listened to was Man That You Fear, and the first thing I thought was, wow this is deep. Being a literature student has its advantages, because you can instantly spot a lot of symbolism in his lyrics. This isn't just your normal rock or whatever. He's an artist (or as he says, a fucking work of art). There are just so many different meanings you can derive from each song, but most people are too shallow to spot them and it's such a shame.
I applaud you, i'm not the biggest Manson fan but the guy definitely has something that's missing in all of music today, and thats dedication and meaning, and it seems every video i've gone to there's a bunch of fangirl's talking about how 'Hawt' he is, and don't even take the time to listen to the message he's trying to say. very sad
i love manson soooo fucking much i would love to meet him he made me se the whole world as it is a fucking dark and cold place he is a awesome man god bless this man :D
This song has reminded me of my mother for almost 15 years. She's recently conquered an almost 20 year pill addiction, and I'm so very proud of her. Shes still not the woman I remember as a small child, but this was my angry song for years toward her. Not anymore. just a memory of an angry teenage girl.
I wished they played this on the radio...even when it came out they only spun two or three songs off of it. Seen him this past summer @ Carolina Rebellion, still awesome !!
The whole Mechanical Animals album is similar, some a little heavier but Manson typically does themes for whole albums making all of the songs on one album tell a story throughout it.
+sandro crossfiree Religion doesn't matter, but these things still don't make it obvious that he has problems. He has written a book, taught a class, and gave people something to listen to when they need somthing to connect to. I believe any genius has their problems. If they are mental, physical, or just a quirk.
UnhingedNihilist I'm agnostic haha. But I think, if someone loves sad songs, he/she has problems : still think so : By sad songs, I mean also this gothic/emo style.
I can honestly understand that, but I can also understand why these songs are a source of comfort. To be honest, I only wanted to be somebody else because I was sad, and I felt like a failure. I listened to this song, and it was a reminder not to get into drugs or hurt myself because it is not the answer to these problems. Oh, and I am terribly sorry, but you should not start a sentence with a conjunction.
"I wouldn't say anything to them. I would listen. And that's something no one did." - Marilyn Manson on the Columbine Shooters.
Cody Gearheart It's a clusterfuck situation. What sucks about it is thinking if all the stigmatizing was crippling enough to affect his future songs without him worrying about if his music really drove two souls to annihilate others in high school. From a long time fan, I didn't really care for anything after Mechanical Animals. I think his creativity was somewhat smothered ruthlessly and left to be collapsed.
This sentence really touched me and let me know he is and intelligent person, that's why I like him and why I like his songs, paintings, and his story.
@@tokakuazumamorako62 and that's how you get recruited. That question and answer was set up that way.
I think he said that in the Interview with Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) to the question what he would say to the families, survivors and the protesters at the time. Still powerful statement from an incredible person.
This needs more context as Manson wasn’t talking about the shooters, rather the families of the victims and protestors. His response was very well thought and showed just how in tune and aware he is with dealing with trauma and people which is why his music is so therapeutic in a very dark and beautiful way.
My mom liked Marilyn Manson but I was always afraid of him. Glad I'm old enough to appreciate his dark genius now.
My mom doesn't like him for some reason
Jenny Eaglelake Eh, she has probably heard some lies about him and the occult.
AVeryComedicTrashbag ™ Oh, Idk what that is 😂😂 I just heard this song on the radio a few nights ago and liked it, I didn't know who it was by and I still love it 😂
savage
+Jenny Eaglelake (Tiger) my mom. doesn't like him either I don't know why I love him
my wife and I went on our first date to a Manson show. This song was our first kiss, then we got married in our Manson shirts from the show...
nice fake story bro
+Deni Ramadhan How would you know if its fake or not. I mean i bet you weren't there.
next on things that didn't happen
+Deni Ramadhan If going on dates with girls sounds unreal to you, you're seriously lonely
goals 💀👌
"A pill to make you numb , a pill to make you dumb, a pill to make you anybody else. But all the drugs in this world, Won`t save her from herself"
*****
Aahahhah
Kristi....
That line always gets me..im a combat vet. Lost an eye to an IED hitting our vehicle. 4 combat tours, saw a lot of shit, had ti do a lot i wish i didn't have to...wound up being fed oxycontin, methadone, vicodin and clonazepam by the bottle for years and years like s fucking Guinea pig. PTSD and severe pain just being masked until the shit barekt worked anymore. Now i just try and power through it and same with the long, long detox taper im on. Still, im in shape enougj to teach self defense and do competition pistol shootin like IDPA and also teach boxing at Gene Fulmers. My old trainer, now passed. And try ti help other vets and addicts out as best i can reintegrate into society. The world seems so slow and off when you come home from combat
@@TheBoxingCannabyte it's because we don't comprehend what you saw, did, and went thru. Is why it seems so slow.
You and your brothers who have to come home fucked up so the rest of us never have to see what you saw makes you all fucking heros in my book.
You're underserved and underappreciated when you come home and have to try putting yourselves back together.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you've done for us. If life played out a little differently, and I wasn't deaf, idda joined up too.
@@TheBoxingCannabyte THANK YOU
Was addicted to meth. Legit quit cold turkey in March when i found out i was meeting Marilyn manson in August. I wanted to be alive for it. Even if you dont show up, i tried and i still havent failed.
How's that journey? Hope you're well.
*viral hugs* keep going, babes.. it'll only get easier... XO 🤘🏼❣
Well update us on the journey please! How was the concert and how was the journey to sobriety? If u fall off. Just brush off the dirt and keep going..Nikki Sixx spoke volumes when he said #LifeIsBeautiful .
Congratulations❤
A good friend of mine from high school Introduced me to Manson with portrait of an american family. All the meds he got over the years and he couldn't be saved from himself. This June will be 8 years and we all miss him something aweful.
I am sorry for your loss
justification1979 I am so sorry for your loss! 😩💔
This song breaks my heart every time I listen to it.
Liam Dyson he really is deeper than hes given credit for
Liam Dyson ikr
I know this song has different meanings for everyone but it reminds me of my dark days as a teenager where I was addicted to adderall and depressed. I took so much to the point where I thought my heart would explode out of my chest because it was beating so fast. I didn’t stop taking them because as much as it hurt me I lived the feeling and it made me super skinny. Like unhealthy skinny. I still thought I was fat. I swear I had body dysmorphia. I wanted to be somebody else. Someone attractive and outgoing and energetic. That’s just not me and I accept that now. I’m glad I got off the pills.
i feel ya, been clean off pills for 11 years now. never went back to that life. I am 41 now and this song too actually reminds me of that time when i OD'd. After that day is when i quit, it was accidental, almost lost my life. But I lost my kids and everything else, eventually got them back, it was a battle from hell.
Glad you are doing better, just stay on that path. Things get better :)
good for u :D you are one strong individual dont give up :)
Proud of you 🫶🏻🖤✨
Reminds me of my dark times when I was going through a tragic break up and losing a dear old friend from drugs, thank you Marilyn Manson for existing, the day I could ever meet him, I don't think I would be able to say a word other than tears of joy
amazing...that same situation brought me here now... I just need a good dose of fukitol and be done with it
Stay weird Gonzo.
@@scy3336 How does anything that Gonzo wrote make him/her weird? You're cringe af
@@ebinbrady Don't do this!!! Stay.
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 it's a hunter s Thompson reference I meant it in a good way
This song sounds like if David Bowie went into a really dark place lyrically and mentally. I mean that as a compliment.
The Fat Turtle listen here u fat fucking turtle. i have nothing to follow up with that. i just wanted to say "fat fucking turtle". have a womderful day
so blackstar
The Fat Turtle I was thinking the same thing actually
Bowie was an idol of mansons so that's probably a very accurate observation
towards the end of bowies life he kinda did sound like this, manson and bowie are and always will be my idols (marilyn manson, not charles )
This song is flat out amazing- the drumming the electric editing, manson really is a master of music and this deserves radio play
Crazy how good this is
I'm a huge Manson fan. Out of all the songs I listen to by him, this is definatly one of the best. I think it's because of his voice and the lyrics.
Totally agree!
it's the emotion. It's one of his rawest songs from a raw emotion album that comes from a dark corner in all our hearts sung in the honesty of a moment of pain.
This is an amazing song, but mine has to be Disassociative
It's a good one really dark too, Like I said a raw emotion album!
Darksoulpoetry dont cut yourself on all that edge
I'll come right out and say it, Marilyn Manson is the greatest lyricist of our time, and an extremely underrated one since no one seems to actually listen to the words the man speaks and the stories his albums tell.
I remember when this song first came out. I was like 14 years old and Manson and Rob Zombie was in. Everybody was listening to it. Now, not many kids listen to this shit anymore. Sucks but oh well. Fuck, I'm getting old.
Nostalgia is a fix
there is still hope i'm 14 and i fucking love manson
im sixteen and i love manson and rob zombie
a girl from school show me who manson was and i like the music he makes now
BORN IN LE WRONG GENERATION ;^)
I sadly had never heard this song until 2024. Brilliant!
Reminds me of my mother. Wish I could help her, but I'm exhausted from trying for too long. Still quite a beautiful song.
Stay strong dude
I know the feeling.
My favourite song from one of the best artists in history :')
After so many years I still know the lyrics by heart
+Teri Garren funny cuz all the drugs in this world fried my memory but i still remember em all too
It's kind of weird cuz this song is older than me by a few months lol but I always heard this growing up cuz my older brother was a huge fan of Mansons stuff. So in a way it's nostalgic
He actually sings more as opposed to screaming and whispering like in his other songs XD I love Marilyn's singing voice.
Y Are u meth-heads have such extravagant names just wondering
Okay
He sings in most of his songs, dipshit. This ain't metal.
This song has so much meaning to me, and it was one of my favorites that he played when I saw him live, it looked like it was snowing on stage when it played.
Best night of my life.
all the drugs in this world wont save me from myself,,,,pure dopeness
And so true.I try it since 26 years
A masterpiece of a song
Coma White is an epic song. I'm glad he makes a point of playing it , usually one of the encores👿🤘
Dear Mr.Manson
Your genius is showing.
Love, Devoted fan
gotta laugh at these comments, i know your heart is in the right place but manson had his hay day of everyone attacking him, when he was his most famous around 2002 - 2008 not 2015. the peopel that did attack him and the people that loved him are all grown up now. the media at that time were scared of people who pushed far out ideas in the 90s and 2000s. All the teenagers now listening to this be glad that Manson has become half acceptable in mainstream adulthood then when i grew up listening to this.
And then there's me a 13 year old girl with different taste in music that agrees to everything you said
I remember listening to this song every day when I was like 12. 4 years later and it's still one of my all-time favorites.
One of his best songs honestly. Love this song .
What's your problem? "One of the"? Just say it's the best. Don't be a Plant-Universe-Supply-Smith-Yawn
This song always reminded me of my nephew (obviously you'd have to invert the pronouns, don't even start), always feeling outcast from society and unwilling (perhaps unable) to conform to any authority. He sought solace in drugs and the chasing of sensual pleasure, reasoning that in the absence of any meaning to life (and the rejection of the meanings others tried to place upon him), the only purpose he had was to indulge in all the carnal delights life had to offer. He was never selfish in this pursuit, always willing to share his drugs, introduce his friends to sexually-available women, or include them in the simple activities which brought him joy (such as walking in the woods, swimming in lakes and rivers, starting a bonfire, or smoking a joint on the back porch and listening to music as the sun went down), and if he considered you worth caring about he was unquestionably your brother and would do anything to protect and care for you. He was an angry boy, a defiant boy, and (I believe deep down) a very sad and confused boy, but he was never a bad boy. He was not a sociopath, much as he probably wished he was (and certainly pretended to be), and he was not at all without intelligence or understanding despite his lackluster grades and anti-intellectual posturing. He simply lived the way he wanted, and though he understood the dangers inherent in his lifestyle, he willingly accepted the risks as the price of living free and unfettered.
He died three years ago in a car accident. A woman he was accompanying on a drug-fueled joyride drove her car into a tree in an attempt to kill another passenger, and he was killed instead because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt (he never liked seatbelts, considering them restrictive, and often sneered at the vanity he saw in taking such precautionary measures, the human delusion of safety that he knew didn't really exist), while the woman driving sustained a broken nose and her intended victim merely broke his arm. That woman who accidentally killed my nephew while attempting to kill someone else received sixty days in jail and five years of probation. She's walking around free right now, while my sister mourns her only son and my family wallows in grief over his passing, but I don't hate the woman who killed him. I don't wish death on her in exchange for his life, because I know my nephew would have just laughed off her stupidity and said "Well, shit happens. We're all born to die. At least I died high."
I miss you, Poozer. I always will. Wherever you are, if you're anywhere at all, I hope you're experiencing the transendence and peace you once sought in a bag of weed or a hit of acid, and I hope you save some for me if we ever do meet again. And if it turns out you're nowhere, then that's even better, because I know now what you always knew but could never articulate to me: That oblivion is the ultimate peace.
I'm sorry for your loss. And for that young man only knowing how to throw his life away. But oblivion is not the ultimate peace. Per MM's Coma White lyrics "all the drugs in this world wont save her from herself." The meanings are very clear. It's YOU who has to save yourself. No one else, not a well-meaning aunt or a girl you share a spliff with is going to rescue you. It's by being your own hero and facing life is where the "peace" comes from. Not because there's no more strife but because you feel confident in facing it.
If he had ALLOWED himself to begin to face his pain rather than continually run from it by dosing himself then that nihilism you describe wouldnt have happened. Meaningless happens because we look in places where there are no meanings so of course we're always going to end up empty handed. The "wrong" place he was looking was outside of himself; and, he unintentionally forced himself to keep looking outside of himself for meanings because inside of himself where the meanings are he obscurded with numbing himself.
I'm not attacking you or that young man. But to endorse numbing at a song where many of the listeners are numbed out I can't support and have to say something. Cheers.
Jesus dude...
@@jessaustin1122 Honestly however insensitive my comment may be/have been, I was probably speaking more about myself than the boy in question.
At the same time I do stand by my comment however extreme or poorly timed it is. This song probably attracts people with suicidal ideation and for someone who's emotionally unrooted to read a comment "oblivion = peace" isn't helping anybody. It's romanticizing dysfunctional behaviors for people who probably never got the chance to internalize (and therefore experience) anything approaching sanity and positive emotional well being.
Most of all it implies there's no hope and things are beyond repair. Yet there is hope and beauty in abundance in this world if only we'd allow ourselves to see it and be patient enough for the storm clouds to pass. The warmth of the sun is always there above the tempest whether or not we can see it...
I am sorry for the loss of that boy and for the poster's pain.
Thank you for this.
This has a meaning to me, it shows no matter how long i throw the pain down by any means just can't save me from myself...
"But all the drugs in this world won't save her from herself" I should have realized this sooner...
Manson himself should've realized it sooner. I mean, you still have songs like "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)" or "The Dope Show" on the exact same album...
Sounds like he was projecting a lot of his insecurities on the girlfriend (or whoever is the subject of the song)
In 91 I woke in San Francisco General Hospital from a massive brain injury coma. I went home to 887 40th ave. and wrote an album called White Coma. It was rock from the other side. Marilyn's music is a sweet comforting bloody slice of that emotional horror with out all the invasiveness. Thank You Marilyn, Love Brooze
its a masterpiece
This song changed my life
to run away!
bluebble gummy you ruined it. -_-
I'm obsessed with this song like so much!!! It's perfect for a freak like me lol
Daisy Woods huh,if you think you're a freak, you probably don't even know what the definition of "weird" is....
Daisy Woods listen to Freak on a Leash by Korn you would like them
Juan Venegas What type of evidence do you have to support your comment? I don't know, I feel like people are really weird, everyone has a bit of freak in them, then its just levels.
Juan Venegas We're all freaks in our own ways.
No. I feel like you all have poor definitions of "weird" and "freak". I may be weird myself seeing as normal people throw that word around like they have seen something but I mean from jail to the hospital to the middle of the woods to center city of every city on the east coast. I've seen some shit and I am a creature of habbit
New favorite song of this month, definitely made me a bit more of a Manson fan, just saw him play it live the other day when he opened for smashing pumpkins... blown away. Good stuff..
He didn't open for SP. if anything they should open for him. But umm yeah.
+Samuel De La Cruz hAhaha if you say so. not like I was AT the concert or anything... UNLESS, maybe these days the headliner goes onstage first idk
+Mike Tan it was my understanding that that series of concerts they were both headliners, and that they just shared the concert?
That sounds good to me, idc what you call it i was there for both bands and the show was amazing. I was just goin by standard bc manson went on first when i saw them in jersey.
+Mike Tan same dude, I never heard this song until then
Big Pharma's favorite song.
ItIsFunnyDamnIt classic
@@aprileve2113 Truth though. These days every other add is one for a pill for this a pill for that. They try to convince everyone they're depressed and want them to be prescribed pills.
@@aprileve2113 Funny thing. I just noticed this in the comments. I had forgotten all about this old comment. I never get the responses here on youtube when someone responds to a response. Weird to scroll the comments and than see an old comment you totally forgot about and wasn't even expecting to see
I love his strange brilliance
This was me but I didn’t want it, but God kept me. 💜🍃
Valerie Ward watching at 6th beast rite Marilyn Manson
@Steph Eva Draina see anneliese Michel 6demons in rock on CZcams
Valerie Ward God didn’t save you...you saved yourself Valerie
this song reminds me of a friend of mine whos suicidal, no matter how much help she gets she still gets those suicidal thoughts.
"A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb, a pill to make you anybody else. But all the drugs in this world won't save her from herself."
that chorus reminds me of her.
so I was around when Marilyn Manson first came out and now my daughter loves Marilyn Manson and it's really cool that it's something that we both can love together! :-)
I love listening locking myself in my dark room, putting on my headphones, and just listening to this song while bawling my eyes out. This song hits almost too close to home.
Emma Morgan you are not alone
Emma Morgan we can relate on something
Emma Morgan your never alone... I still live in a dark world and fight everyday for strength to continue life...
It gets easier within time. I'm blessed that I am a failed suicide. I have two freaking awesome kids and a very loving husband. Be strong. Hold on.
Terra Scotty Never GIve in just keep on moving
"You were from a perfect world a world that threw me away today to runaway"
I'm a black hip hop head ...(real hip hop like Roots, Lupe Fiasco, Outkast, Mos Def!) but I absolutely relate to this song and Marilyn Manson himself. Can't tell me music can't transcend color. Long live great musicians.
this song was amazing live. I'll never forget the vibe when he started playing this song
+Dan Marrero same when i firrst heard this live in i think it was 2009 i balled my eyes out
My respects to him, very much
This song is so good I almost forget. This is the gospel I need. Thank you Brian:)
Its so cool to hear more screamo artists singing normally it just proves they have talent
Manson used to make such good music. It really saddens me to see what he’s become.
god i absolutely hate when music videos shorten songs, it's like when you are about to sneeze then you dont.
Agreed.
"Theres something cold and blank behind a smile* ;-;
***** like YOUR smile?
Theres a sick kind of desperation in your laugh
Michelle duhaime HER smile
@@agentorange4063 *releasing it after writting down the comment.*
..."behind her smile..."
I love how in this song he is more singing than just whispering or screaming.. and his voice in this is actually so calming
i still remember the first time i listened to this album and this song... wow, one of the best experiences in my life, i cant believe its been 13 years... time flies...
This song always gives me goosebumps
Melodically continuous, not noisy, simple but deep song
a masterpiece
You know, and this has been pure fanfiction of mine, now that Lady Gaga is in American Horror Story, do you think Marilyn Manson should appear in the sixth season?, I mean, with his personality and awesome gothic look he totally might fit in, plus, what if he could have some partnership with Gaga?, I think that would be some kind of evil, but awesome chemistry
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
You are a mad genius...and I LOVE it (:
Elizabeth Ellie Oh really, thank you
You're welcome!
Omg... That would be too perfect! I love them both.
When I listen to Mechanical Animals it always feels like I'm listening to it from space. Manson is good with putting imagery to his music
How the hell have I NEVER heard this song? It's fucking perfect!!
TestedTwice pink reference
This song takes me back to my childhood. So many antidepressants an no one of them worked, though I was taking them for my parents and not for myself. That may explain it
How is life 12 years later?
this is probably his best song, hands down
this feels real deep for me, you feel this way when you take all these depression, anxiety and sleeping pills
ill agree he is a weirdo, but he speaks to kids from all over, and we love him for that, he SCREAMS classic 90s music....when music was at its peak.... deftones, green day, sum 41, it will just never be the same
Daddy isn't weird
He's perfectly normal. Yes?
Rick Trindade sum41?
Rick Trindade Nirvana...
I hate all the shit that's out there today, what the fuck happened? It all just disappeared WHY? Its all fucking hip hop autotuned bullshit .All the great bands I grew up with are gone.I guess rock is dead.But I' still believe rock can make a comeback .It would be a dream come true to see new bands like the ones I went to see in the seventies and eighties when you would see like four amazing bands .Ive been to so many great shows .Its not to late.It can happen again.It has to.Idont even listen to the radio anymore.At least I kept all my vinyl.
This song is my anthem in regards to my bipolar disorder
Exactly! The first Marilyn Manson song I listened to was Man That You Fear, and the first thing I thought was, wow this is deep. Being a literature student has its advantages, because you can instantly spot a lot of symbolism in his lyrics. This isn't just your normal rock or whatever. He's an artist (or as he says, a fucking work of art). There are just so many different meanings you can derive from each song, but most people are too shallow to spot them and it's such a shame.
I love how you all feel something from this, one of the few precious times I feel love, thank you for the low art that makes this happen
my mom and dad hate manson but I love him. they can't make me stop listening to he's music and listening to him
Your mom and dad can hate him but they have no right to stop you from listening to his music. It's just that his music is not meant for everyone.
There is just this stigma about his music and the type of people who listen.
But his music is great... I have loved every album he's made
Favorite 👌👌
well done ninjagirl you got good taste ma fav marilyn song eva! thnks for uploading :D
One of my all time favourite songs by Manson! :D Well done on a brill vid as well, thanks for uploading :)
How is life 12 years later?
Awesome song. ^-^
ootko suomalainen
I could imagine the beginning of this being used in The Walking Dead series.
Yes
+Nyan Trump Is yours?
hell yea man
For some odd reason this song reminds me of Mary Sibley from Salem.
Im sure you already know this, but Manson's song "Cupid carries a gun" is the opening song for the show Salem.
I applaud you, i'm not the biggest Manson fan but the guy definitely has something that's missing in all of music today, and thats dedication and meaning, and it seems every video i've gone to there's a bunch of fangirl's talking about how 'Hawt' he is, and don't even take the time to listen to the message he's trying to say. very sad
I never stopped loving this song. So beautiful:)
I love this but the fact that my brother plays it continuesly everyday is driving me crazy!!!
i love manson soooo fucking much i would love to meet him he made me se the whole world as it is a fucking dark and cold place he is a awesome man god bless this man
:D
beautiful song
Best song from Manson. God I love it, and the text is so good...
if i had a band i would do a cover of this song not just because i like his music but because me and a lot of my friends are like this
One of my favorite Manson songs of all time
Awesome tune man
Took my thoughts right out of my head! You have no idea how right you are!
I love this song.
Does anyone know what Manson means when he says "Just bleeding like a polaroid that lost all her dolls."?
Josh Burns see above :)
One of the best artists of this and probably the next few eras
thanks for posting. this song got me through my senior year of high school the lyrics definitely have meaning. 🤘
this song describes my feelings
2 best song this and beautiful people
nikon d3200 for me this and the fight song are top
This song is one of my favorite very beautiful and dark ❤️
Great!! thanks for your work, I hope you keep doing videos like this :)
Fuckin beautiful song I love Manson he's fucking awesome I love him he is the best artist along with rob zombie and Kurt kobain
este tema es hermosamente depresivo =)
This song has reminded me of my mother for almost 15 years. She's recently conquered an almost 20 year pill addiction, and I'm so very proud of her. Shes still not the woman I remember as a small child, but this was my angry song for years toward her. Not anymore. just a memory of an angry teenage girl.
I wished they played this on the radio...even when it came out they only spun two or three songs off of it. Seen him this past summer @ Carolina Rebellion, still awesome !!
But if I keep telling myself they will save me from myself I will eventually heal. lol.
preach!!!
Anymore songs like this from MM?
The whole Mechanical Animals album is similar, some a little heavier but Manson typically does themes for whole albums making all of the songs on one album tell a story throughout it.
i cried during this is that odd
Matthew Riggs nah the song takes you to your own dark place.
Man That You Fear
not fear, just FEEL. Idk it just resonates easily
The lyrics of all his songs are forever tattooed in my soul
Such depth in the lyrics. ❤
ive spend that last 26 years living this song im still in the middle of kicking
I'm christian, but i love marilyn, because he has such a big talent! I feel bad for him, he has problems, I think.
sandro crossfiree You either know Marilyn's shit and you're not a christian or you are an idiot that misses what he is saying in his songs. :/
+sandro crossfiree Religion doesn't matter, but these things still don't make it obvious that he has problems. He has written a book, taught a class, and gave people something to listen to when they need somthing to connect to. I believe any genius has their problems. If they are mental, physical, or just a quirk.
Your dogma blinds you. You assume he has problems because he's different. Your fundamentalism of what someone should be is seeping out.
UnhingedNihilist I'm agnostic haha. But I think, if someone loves sad songs, he/she has problems : still think so : By sad songs, I mean also this gothic/emo style.
I can honestly understand that, but I can also understand why these songs are a source of comfort. To be honest, I only wanted to be somebody else because I was sad, and I felt like a failure. I listened to this song, and it was a reminder not to get into drugs or hurt myself because it is not the answer to these problems. Oh, and I am terribly sorry, but you should not start a sentence with a conjunction.
Absolutely my favorite song
Still, after a year and a half, maybe more since I first heard this, these are the most amazing, truthful and saddest lyrics of a song I know.