Marilyn Manson

Antichrist Superstar - 1996

1. Irresponsible Hate Anthem
2. The Beautiful People
3. Dried up, tied and dead to the world
4. Tourniquet
5. Little horn
6. Cryptorchid
7. Deformagraphy
8. Wormboy
9. Mister superstar
10. Angel with the scabbed wings
11. Kinderfeld
12. Antichrist superstar
13. 1996
14. Minute of decay
15. The reflecting god
16. Man that you fear
17. Bonus Track 99



1. Irresponsible Hate Anthem


I am so all-american, Iīd sell you suicide
I am totalitarian, Iīve got abortions in my eyes
I hate the hater, Iīd rape the raper
I am the animal who will not be himself
Fuck it
Hey victim, should I black your eyes again?
Hey victim, You were the one who put the stick in my hand
I am the ism, my hateīs a prism
Letīs just kill everyone and let your god sort them out
Fuck it
Everybodyīs someone elseīs nigger
I know you are so am I
I wasnīt born with enough middle fingers
I donīt need to choose a side
I better, better, better, better not say this
Better, better, better, better not tell
I hate the hater, Iīd rape the raper
I am the idiot who will not be himself
Fuck it
(chorus)



2. The Beautiful People


I donīt want you and I donīt need you
Donīt bother to resist, Iīll beat you
Itīs not your fault that youīre always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong
The beautiful people, the beautiful people,
Itīs all relative to the size of your steeple
You canīt see the forest for the trees,
And you canīt smell
Your own shit on your knees

Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
Hey you, are you trying to be mean?
If you live with apes, man, itīs hard to be clean
Thereīs no time to discriminate,
Hate every motherfucker
Thatīs in your way

The Worms will live in every host
Itīs hard to pick which one they eat they most
The horrible people, the horrible people
Itīs as anatomic as the size of your steeple
Capitalism has made it this way,
Old-fashioned fascism
Will take it away



3. Dried up, tied and dead to the world


You cut off all of your fingers
Trade them in for dollar bills
Cake on some more make-up to
Cover all of those lines
Wake up and stop shaking
Cause youīre just wasting time
Donīt you want some of this?
Donīt you need some of this?
You take but cannot be given
You ride but cannot be ridden
Pinch this tiny heart of mine
Wrap it up in soiled twine
You never read what youīve written

Iīll be your lover, Iīll be forever
Iīll be tomorrow, I am anything when Iīm high

Donīt you want some of this?
Donīt you need some of this?
You shove your hair down my throat
I feel your fingers in me
Tear this bitter fruit to mess
And wrap it in your soiled dress
Now you must spit out the seeds

All dried up and tied up forever
All fucked up and dead to the world...



4. Tourniquet


Sheīs made of hair and bone and little teeth
And things I cannot speak
She comes on like a crippled plaything
Spine is just a string
I wrapped our love in all this foil
Silver-tight like spider legs
I never wanted it to ever spoil
But flies will lay their eggs

Take your hatred out on me
Make your victim my head
You never ever believed in me
I am your tourniquet

Prosthetic synthesis with butterfly
Sealed up with virgin stitch
If it hurts just tell me
Preserve the innocence
I never wanted it to end this way,
But flies will lay their eggs



5. Little horn


Thereīs an apple in the pussy mouth
Now I am the dinner whore
Thereīs a tumor in the T.V. mouth
Burn it out before it grows
Someone better get the dog to kick, jaws wired shut to
Save the dick
Out of the bottomless pit comes the little horn

"Little Horn is born"
The world spreads its legs for another star
World shows its face for another scar

Dead will dance for what is left
The worms will wait with bated breath
"Youīre blind have now become my deaf"
So says the little horn
"Save yourself from this..."
(chorus)
Everyone will suffer now...
"You canīt save yourself..."



6. Cryptorchid


Each time I make my mother cry an
Angel dies and falls from heaven
When the boy is still a worm itīs hard to
Learn the number seven
But when they get to you
Itīs the first thing that they do
Each time I look outside
My mother dies, I feel my back is changing shape
When the worm consumes the boy itīs never
Considered rape
When they get to you
Prick your finger it is done...
The moon has now eclipsed the sun...
The angel has spread his wings...
The time has come for bitter things...



7. Deformagraphy


When you wish upon your star
Donīt let yourself fall, fall in too hard
I fell into you now Iīm on my back
An insect decaying in your little trap
I squirm into you, now Iīm in your gut
I fell into you, now Iīm in a rut

"Lift you up like the sweetest angel, Iīll
Tear you down like a whore, I will bury your
God in my warm spit, youīll be deformed in Your porn"
Rock star yeah (youīre such a dirty, dirty)
Rock star yeah (dirty, dirty, dirty)

You eat up my heart and all the little parts
Your star is so sharp
It leaves me jagged holes
I make myself sick just to poison you
If I canīt have you then no one will
(chorus)
You are the one I want and what I want is so Unreal
Iīm such a dirty rock star yeah
(I am the one you want and what you want
Is so unreal)



8. Wormboy


When will you realize youīre already there?
So watered down-Your feelings have turned to mud
"Love everybody" is destroying the value of
All hate has got me nowhere

I know Iīm slipping, I know Iīm slipping, I know Iīm slipping away
Oh no, it is everything they said it was
Oh no, I am all the things they said I was

When you get to heaven you will wish youīre in hell
When will you realize, youīre already here
Youīll thank us now that you have crossed over
Donīt pick the scabs or you will never heal
The world shudders as the worm gets his wings
(chorus)
Then I got my wings and I never even knew it
When I was a worm, thought I wouldnīt get through it...



9. Mister superstar


Hey Mr. Superstar:
"Iīll do anything for you"
"Iīm your number one fan"
Hey Mr. Porno Star, I, I, I, I want you
Hey Mr. Sickly Star,
I want to get sick from you
Hey Mr. Fallen Star,
Donīt you know I worship you?
Hey Mr. Big Rock Star,
"I wanna grow up just like you"

I know that I can turn you on
I wish I could just turn you off
I never wanted this

Hey Mr. Superhate,
I just want to love you
Hey, hey, hey Mr. Superfuck,
I want to go down on you
Hey Mr. Supergod,
Will you answer my prayers?
Hey, hey, hey Mr. Superman,
I want to be your little girl
(chorus)
Hey Mr. Superstar,
Iīll kill myself for you
Hey Mr. Superstar,
Iīll kill you if I canīt have you
Superstar, superfuck baby...



10. Angel with the scabbed wings


He is the angel with the scabbed wings
Hard-drug face, want to powder his nose
He will deflower the freshest crop
Dry up all the wombs with his rock and roll sores

Dead Is what he is, he does what he pleases
The things that he has youīll never want to see
What youīre never gonna be now
Sketch a little keyhole for the looking-glass people
You donīt want to be him
You only want to see him
Mommyīs got a scarecrow, gotta let the corn grow
Man canīt always reap what he sow

"He is the maker"
(He is the taker)

"He is the saviour"
(He is the raper)

Get back youīre never gonna leave him
Get back youīre always gonna please him



11. Kinderfeld


He lives inside my mouth
And tells me what to say
When he turns the trains
On he makes it go away
The hands are cracked and dirty and
The nails are beetle wings
When he turns the trains on he
Unties all of the strings
The Worm: "Tell me something beautiful,
Tell me something free,
Tell me something beautiful,
And I wish that I could be."
(Then I got my wings and I never even knew it,
When I was a worm, thought I couldnīt get through it)
Jack: (not spoken) Come, come
The toys all smell like children
And the scab-knees will obey
Iīll have to kneel on broomsticks
Just to make it go away.
(The Inauguration of the Worm)
(Then I got my wings and I never even knew it,
When I was a worm, thought I couldnīt get through it)
A voice we have not yet heard: "Because today
is black, because there is no turning back.
Because your lies have watered me,/I have become the Strongest weed"
weed...
Through Jackīs eyes:
The taste of metal
Disintegrator
Three holes upon the leather belt
Itīs cut and swollen
And the age is showing
Boy: "Thereīs no one here to save ourself."
The Disintegrator: (to himself)
This is what you should fear
You are what you should fea



12. Antichrist superstar


You built me up with your wishing hell
I didnīt have to sell you
You threw your money in the pissing well
You do just what they tell you

REPENT, thatīs what Iīm talking about
I shed the skin to feed the fake
REPENT, thatīs what Iīm talking about
Whose mistake am I anyway?

Cut the head off
Grows back hard
I am the hydra
Now youīll see your star
Prick your finger it is done
The moon has now eclipsed the sun
The angel has spread his wings
The time has come for bitter things

The time has come it is quite clear
Our ANTICHRIST
Is almost here...
It is done



13. 1996


Anti Choice
Anti Girl
I am the Anti-Flag unfurled
Anti White and Anti Man
I got the Anti-Future plan
Anti Fascist
Anti Mod
I am the Anti-Music god
Anti Sober
Anti Whore
There will never be enough of Anti More

I canīt believe in the things
That donīt believe in me
Now itīs your turn to see misanthropy
Anti People now youīve gone to far
Hereīs your AntiChrist Superstar

Anti Money
Anti Hate
Anti things I Fucked and Ate
Anti Cop
Anti Fun
Here is my Anti-President gun
Anti Satan
Anti Black
Anti World is on my back
Anti Gay and Anti Dope
I am the faggot Anti-Pope

Anti Peace
Anti Life
Anti Husband, Anti Wife
Anti Song and Anti Me
I donīt deserve a chance to be



14. Minute of decay


Thereīs not much left to love
Too tired today to hate
I feel the empty
I feel the minute of decay

Iīm on my way down now, Iīd like to take
You with me
Iīm on my way down
Iīm on my way down now, Iīd like to take
You with me
Iīm on my way down

The minute that itīs born
It begins to die
Iīd love to just give in,
Iīd love to live this lie
Iīve been to black and back
Iīve 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
Iīm on my way down
Iīve looked ahead and saw a
World thatīs dead
I guess that I am too

Iīm on my way down now, Iīd like to take
You with me...



15. The reflecting god


Your world is an ashtray
We burn and coil like cigarettes
The more you cry your ashes turn to mud
Its the nature of the leeches, the virginīs Feeling cheated
Youīve only spent a second of your life

My world is unaffected, there is an exit here
I say it is then itīs true, there is a dream inside a
Dream, Iīm wide awake the more I sleep
Youīll understand when I am dead
I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When Iīm God everyone dies
Scar scar can you feel my power?
Shoot here and the world gets smaller
Scar scar can you feel my power
One shot and the world gets smaller

Letīs jump upon the sharp swords
And cut away our smiles
Without the threat of death
Thereīs no reason to live at all
My world is unaffected, there is an exit here
I say it is then itīs true,
There is a dream inside a dream,
Iīm wide awake the more I sleep
Youīll understand when I am dead
(bridge)
(chorus)
"Each thing I show you is a piece of my death"
Shoot shoot shoot motherfucker
No salvation, no forgiveness
"This is beyond your experience"
Forgiveness



16. Man that you fear


The ants are in the sugar
The muscles atrophied
Weīre on the other side, the screen is us and
Weīre T.V.
Spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs are
All your infants in abortion cribs
I was born into this
Everything turns to shit
The boy that you loved is the
Man that you fear
Pray until youīre number, asleep from all
Your pain, your apple has been rotting
Tomorrowīs turned up dead
I have it all and I have no choice but to
Iīll make everyone pay and you will see
You can kill yourself now
Because youīre dead
In my mind
The boy that you loved is the
Monster you fear
Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the
Dark, youīve poisoned all your children
To camouflage your scars
Pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
Pray your life was just a dream
The cut that never heals
Pray now baby, pray your
Life was just a dream
(I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot
Escape)
Pinch the head off, collapse me like a weed
Someone had to go this far
I was born into this
Everything turns to shit
The boy that you loved is the
Man that you fear
Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the
Dark, youīve poisoned all your children
To camouflage your scars
Pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
Pray your life was just a dream
The cut that never heals
Pray now baby, pray your life was just a
Dream
The worldīs in my hands, thereīs no one left to
Hear you scream
Thereīs no one left for you



17. Bonus Track 99


Go ahead and build a better messiah, we can dig another grave
This is your calling.
If you are hearing this, there is nothing I can do
Something has grown in my chest.
I have seen it.
It is hard and cold.
Itīs been dormant for many years.
I have tried to save you, but I cannot come to save you,
But this is what you deserve
This is what we deserve
This is something we have brought upon ourselves.
We are not a victim, you are not a victim
We are not a victim, you are not a victim
God will grovel before me
God will crawl at my feet
These are the dying years.
These are the dying years.
When you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you...


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