Lamb of God
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Lamb of God Lyrics
There was Christ in the metal shell
There was blood on the pavement
The camera will make you God
That's how Jack became sainted
[Pre-Chorus]
If you die when there's no one watching
And your ratings drop, and you're forgotten
If they kill you on the TV
You're a martyr and a Lamb of God
[Interlude]
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change the world
[Verse 2]
There was Lennon in the happy gun
There were words on the pavement
We were looking for the Lamb of God
We were looking for Mark David
[Pre-Chorus]
If you die when there's no one watching
And your ratings drop, and you're forgotten
If they kill you on the TV
You're a martyr and a Lamb of God
Nothing's gonna change the world
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change the world
Nothing's gonna change the world
[Bridge]
Took three days for him to die
The born again could buy the serial rights
Lamb of God, have mercy on us
Lamb of God, will you grant us?
[Chorus]
Nothing's gonna change the world
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change the world
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change the world
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change the world
Nothing's gonna change the world
[Outro]
If you die when there's no one watching
And your ratings drop, and you're forgotten
If they kill you on the TV
You're a martyr and a Lamb of God
Nothing's gonna change the world
About
“Lamb of God” is an song on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), in which Marilyn Manson comments on the way in which the media makes martyrs out of public figures who are killed. It is part of the cult of personality that Holy Wood as an album investigates.
Holy Wood, which isn’t even that great of a hyperbole of America, is a place where an obituary is just another headline. Where if you die and enough people are watching, then you’re famous
- Marilyn Manson
It’s interesting to note that the song takes several elements from other songs, mostly by Manson’s favorite artists. “Nothing’s going to change,” for example is a variation of a Beatles lyric from the song “Across the Universe,” while the song is sung in the tune of Radiohead’s “Climbing Up The Walls.” It re-enforces a concept Manson often discussed when this record came out: “We are the TV. We’re a copy staring at a copy, of a copy of a copy… Eventually it’s a xerox that’s so degenerated we don’t know what came first.”
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