Born Villain

Marilyn Manson

2012 Released

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Hey, Cruel World…

03 : 44

No Reflection

04 : 36

Pistol Whipped

04 : 10

Overneath the Path of Misery

05 : 18

Slo-Mo-Tion

04 : 24

The Gardener

04 : 39

The Flowers of Evil

05 : 19

Children of Cain

05 : 17

Disengaged

03 : 25

Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms

04 : 13

Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day

04 : 18

Born Villain

05 : 26

Breaking the Same Old Ground

04 : 27

You’re So Vain

04 : 02

No Reflection (radio edit)

03 : 30

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Track Lyrics

Hey, Cruel World… Lyrics

[Intro]

Hey, cruel world

You don't have what it takes

We don't need your faith

We've got fucking fate

Hey, cruel world

You don't have what it takes

We don't need your faith

We've got fucking fate

[Verse 1]

Creator, preserver, destroyer

Ask which one I am

There's no drugged-out devils

Or square-halo angels walking among us

[Pre-Chorus]

I am among no one

No one

[Chorus]

Hey, cruel world

You don't have what it takes

We don't need your faith

We've got fucking fate

Fate, fate, fate

[Verse 2]

The center of the universe cannot exist

When there are no, no edges

The center of the universe cannot exist

When there are no, no edges

[Chorus]

Hey, cruel world

You don't have what it takes

We don't need your faith

We've got fucking fate

Fate, fate, fate

[Bridge]

Fate, fate, fate

[Pre-Chorus]

I am among no one

No one

[Chorus]

Hey, cruel world

You don't have what it takes

We don't need your faith

We've got fucking fate

Fate, fate, fate

No Reflection Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Crushing, cheating, changing

Am I deaf or dead? Is this constricting construction

Or just streets with rusty signs

Of something violent coming?

[Pre-Chorus]

This will hurt you worse than me

I'm weak seven days a week

Don't run from me

I won't bother counting one, two, three

[Chorus]

I don't know which me that I love

I've got no reflection

I don't know which me that I love

I've got no reflection

[Verse 2]

I can show myself how to make a noose

A gun's cliché and a razor too

I'm not a death-trip vacation vacant station

Made of scars and filled with my old wounds

[Pre-Chorus]

This will hurt you worse than me

I'm weak seven days a week

Don't run from me

I won't bother counting one, two, three

[Chorus]

I don't know which me that I love

I've got no reflection

I don't know which me that I love

I've got no reflection

[Bridge]

You, you don't even want to know what I'm gonna do to you

You don't even want to know what I'm gonna do to you

[Chorus]

I don't know which me that I love

I've got no reflection

I don't know which me that I love

I've got no reflection

No reflection

I've got no reflection

Overneath the Path of Misery Lyrics

[Intro]

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death

Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow

A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing

[Verse 1]

Stare into my Kodak Rome

Jack-hammer ice eyes

I never thought you'd see the

Asphalt crack, crack, crack like a black eggshell

Don't ever say I never warned you from the start

You're not a shovel and I'm not your dirt

[Verse 2]

Is there any way to unswallow my pride?

Can I fuck myself down?

Why die, when you can kill the father?

Dad is missing an 'E'

No Macbeth confessed Oedipus

No longer present tense

No Macbeth confessed Oedipus

No longer present tense

No, no, no, no, no reason

[Chorus]

High and overneath

[Verse 3]

I won't regret letting you live

Even if you forgot what you never saved me from

So I say whatever or fornever

For, for, for, for, for, fornever

Whatever

[Verse 4]

The rape of Persephone

Was choreographed by all the wrong Greeks

The rape of Persephone

Was a marketing scheme

Rape, rape, rape per so phony

[Chorus]

High and overneath

[Bridge]

Overneath, overneath

Overblown, unbeloved, cannot be low

From the top of my lungs

To the bottom of my heart I scream

At the chasm in between

And the path of misery

Overneath, overneath

Overblown, unbeloved, cannot be low

From the top of my lungs

To the bottom of my heart I scream

At the chasm in between

And the path of misery

[Chorus]

High and overneath

[Outro]

No, no, no, no, no reason

Slo-Mo-Tion Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You've got your Hell's teeth smiling at you

It keeps your brain safe, as it all eats at your face

And don't worry, we'll blur it out

And no one ever will know, oh

[Chorus]

This is my beautiful show

And everything is shot in slow-motion

This is my beautiful show

And everything is shot in slow-motion

[Verse 2]

Pump in the laughter of dead-audience applause

And teenage rape candidates

I think we got ourselves a real hit

Don't we wish that we could feel something

More than hate and morbid panic?

Morbid panic

Hate and morbid panic

[Chorus]

This is my beautiful show

And everything is shot in slow-motion

This is my beautiful show

And everything is shot in slow-motion

[Verse 3]

And I'm the host with Vaseline

I hide behind bulletproof glass

And I can feel your tits with my brand new camera

Equipped with a flash

Fast-food-nude, I hate you all

And somehow, you find me

Incredibly charming

[Outro]

Slo-mo-tion

Incredibly charming

Slo-mo-tion

Incredibly charming

This is my beautiful show

And everything is shot in slow-motion

The Gardener Lyrics

[Intro]

I'm not man enough to be human

But I'm trying to fit in

And I'm learning to fake it

[Verse 1]

Don't ever meet their friends

Tells you too much or not enough

Or worse, exactly the wrong thing

Every nuance, every detail

Every movement, every smell

Sound, phrase, inflection, the way she laughs

These are all the things you either obsessively fetishize

Or make yourself grow to love

Although you are supposed to be done growing

She is still growing

It's like a garden with two flowers

One just blooming and casting a shadow, just like yours

And then it becomes a struggle

Of sunlight or rain or weeds

[Pre-Chorus]

She and every she

Is doomed to be your idea of her

She and every she

Is doomed to be your idea of her

[Chorus]

I'm not man enough to be human

But I'm trying to fit in

And I'm learning to fa-fa-fa-fake it

[Verse 2]

But worse so, back to the point

You are no longer the flower and the sun

And most importantly the garden or the gardener

A muse, your amusement, I am used

It's all ruined if you meet their friends

[Pre-Chorus]

She and every she

Is doomed to be your idea of her

She and every she

Is doomed to be your idea of her

[Chorus]

I'm not man enough to be human

But I'm trying to fit in

And I'm learning to fa-fa-fa-fake it

Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fake it

Fa-fa-fa-fake it

[Bridge]

You never wanted to share your concept of your creation

With any other gods or worshippers

Your book isn't burned

It was never written

Your book isn't burned

It was never written

[Chorus]

I'm not man enough to be human

But I'm trying to fit in

And I'm learning to fa-fa-fa-fake it

Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fake it

Fa-fa-fa-fake it

Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I'm not of this world, you're not in this heart

This isn't in me

To open this box, you can't shoot the lock

I hide everything so you can't see

[Pre-Chorus]

Wanna fight? Wanna fuck?

Wanna die? Try your luck

Lay down your goddamn arms

Wanna fight? Wanna fuck?

Wanna die? Try your luck

Lay down your goddamn arms

[Chorus]

There isn't a key

You can use on me

There isn't a key

So lay down your arms

Arms

[Verse 2]

You're a book, every page is written

In words I cannot read

So I burn, gotta burn, gotta burn, gotta burn it

[Pre-Chorus]

Wanna fight? Wanna fuck?

Wanna die? Try your luck

Lay down your goddamn arms

Wanna fight? Wanna fuck?

Wanna die? Try your luck

Lay down your goddamn arms

[Chorus]

There isn't a key

You can use on me

There isn't a key

So lay down your arms

[Interlude]

There isn't a key

You can use on me

There isn't a key

So lay down your arms

[Outro]

Gotta burn, gotta burn, gotta burn, gotta burn it

Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Do you always have to hire actors

To play the devils that talk me out of my sui-sites?

You're just a ring tone that happens when

You get sick enough to call the one

With bullet holes, bullet holes for eyes

[Chorus]

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

[Verse 2]

I broken open the box

When I spoke the spell and I became

An entrance wound to your bedroom grave

And I was paid with the shadow of consensual rape

Your ransom note is quoted by

Your death and birth certificates

And all of your love, and all of your love letters

Read just like my will

[Chorus]

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

[Bridge]

I don't have to see to know that murderers

Are getting prettier every day

I don't have to see to know that murderers

Are getting prettier every day

I don't have to see to know that murderers

Are getting prettier every day

[Chorus]

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

[Outro]

Fall on your knees

I hear the horrid voices

Of someone else's angels

Fuck it

Breaking the Same Old Ground Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Then I found how to be what you want

When I was out looking for something new

Digging too deep and now it's too late

We just keep on breaking the same old ground

Breaking the same old ground

[Chorus]

So you think that I asked for this?

Let me show you what I think of your lips

And you think that I asked for this?

Come on, use your fists

[Verse 2]

Then I found how to be what you want

When I was out looking for something new

Digging too deep, now it's too late

We just keep on breaking the same old ground

Breaking the same old ground

We just keep on breaking the same old ground

[Chorus]

So you think that I asked for this?

Let me show you what I think of your lips

And you think that I asked for this?

Come on, use your fists

[Bridge]

Then I found how to be what you want

When I was out looking for something new

Digging too deep, now it's too late

We just keep on breaking the same old ground

Just keep on breaking the same old ground

[Outro]

I am owned by death

And I am in love with oblivion

I am owned by death

And I, and I am in love with oblivion

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Track Lyrics

Hey, Cruel World… Lyrics

No Reflection Lyrics

Overneath the Path of Misery Lyrics

Slo-Mo-Tion Lyrics

The Gardener Lyrics

Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms Lyrics

Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics

Breaking the Same Old Ground Lyrics