“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.”