Evidence
♫ Marilyn Manson Lyrics
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And a body that shows me death
Your lips look like they were made
For something else, but they just suck my breath
I want your pain to taste why you're ashamed
And I know you're not just what you say to me
And I'm not the only moment you're made of
You're so sudden and sweet on your legs, knockin' knees
Head's blown clean off, your mouth paid off
Fuck me till we know it's unsafe
And we'll paint over the evidence
Want you wanting me
Want what I see in your eyes
So give me something to be scared of
Don't give me something to satisfy
[Chorus]
I want your pain to taste why you're ashamed
And I know you're not just what you say to me
And I'm not the only moment you're made of
[Chorus x 2]
The lyrics of Marilyn Manson's "Evidence" depict a twisted relationship between two individuals engaging in a dangerous and potentially deadly affair. The persona is enamored with the other person's physical features, describing their eyes as leading them on and their body as showing them death. The persona also clearly finds the other person's lips attractive but feels as though they merely suck their breath away. However, despite the physical attraction, the persona desires to taste the other person's pain and shame, wanting to experience their deepest and darkest emotions. The chorus suggests that the relationship is unhealthy, with the persona describing the suddenness of their encounters, the destruction of their mental state, and the erasing of any evidence of their intimacy.
The lyrics are open to interpretation and reflection on the complications of relationships involving toxicity and obsession. The lyrics may also be a commentary on modern society's fascination with sex and violence and the graphic depiction of these themes in media. Overall, "Evidence" presents a dark and intense narrative of a relationship gone awry.
Line by Line Meaning
You have eyes that lead me on
Your eyes have a seductive gaze that pulls me towards you.
And a body that shows me death
Your body allures me towards death, towards temptation and obsession.
Your lips look like they were made
Your lips seem perfect to me, as if made to fulfill my desires.
For something else, but they just suck my breath
They may have been made for something else, but they excite me so much that I can hardly breathe.
I want your pain to taste why you're ashamed
I want to experience your pain so that I can understand why you're ashamed of yourself.
And I know you're not just what you say to me
I know that there's more to you than what you reveal to me.
And I'm not the only moment you're made of
I am not the only thing that defines and makes up your life.
You're so sudden and sweet on your legs, knockin' knees
You have a sudden, enticing charm that weakens my knees and stirs my desires.
Head's blown clean off, your mouth paid off
You have such a powerful effect on me that it feels like my head has exploded and that your lips somehow have magical powers.
Fuck me till we know it's unsafe
We should indulge in dangerous, taboo pleasures until we know there's no turning back.
And we'll paint over the evidence
We'll try to cover up any traces of our sinful desires and actions.
Want you wanting me
I crave your desire for me, your attraction towards me.
Want what I see in your eyes
I want to experience the intense emotions and desires that I can see in your eyes.
So give me something to be scared of
Give me something that will excite and scare me at the same time, that will awaken my deepest fears and desires.
Don't give me something to satisfy
Don't give me something that will simply satisfy me; I want something that will awaken my darkest desires and turn me on like never before.
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Peermusic Publishing, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
Written by: TIM SKOLD, BRIAN HUGH WARNER
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@qantaloupemelon2791
It’s totally understandable and I find it unfortunate as well, since he purposefully made everything as edgy as possible only for the sake of proving a point, and the point was, people should freely express their thoughts and feelings regardless, which is why he purposefully angered and provoked religious groups around the country. He contradicts that by saying he doesn’t want any information said about him, and no I am not by any means legitimizing any of his behaviors or philosophies here, but if we break this down from a psychological perspective, and again this might be hard to do but empathizing with those we see as lowly, is the only way we could prevent this from ever happening again.
Just like making young people feel listen to before they commit crimes in order to prevent them from doing so, as psychoanalyzing him might not be a bad idea
According to one biography I heard of him in the form of a video, he always has had insecurity issues and felt lesser than everyone else, and very easily felt judged and would internally shatter upon being judged negatively. A small part of me resonates with us greatly, but I’ve purposefully taken on a different attitude about it all, and it’s unfortunate that he stayed on the path he was on. I very much respect emo culture and what it does for young people, I myself have been emo for a while, but some thing I’ve noticed, and some thing I’ve tried to do, is pull myself away from it, and get to the next step of healing. Truly I’m not EMO much anymore, but I am deeply supportive of the movement, but every time I’ve noticed there was a person who stayed a strong piece of emo culture the same way they were in their teens and young adulthood, they seem to just dwell in the same space, instead of it being used as a healing steppingstone. It’s only good when it’s a steppingstone rather than a permanent place of being. There are three major steps in an emotional trauma healing, and the first one is acknowledging your emotions and feelings and darkness within, your trauma, and how it affects you. The second step is embracing it, and being emo is embracing both of these steps. Nonetheless, they are just stepping stones, a means to an end, and so it’s not really healthy to stay this way until further adulthood. It’s one thing to keep a teeny short with oneself, but I noticed another celebrity fell victim to staying in the dark space of emo culture. It’s basically like only staying in one part of the major treatment plan for a severe illness. It’s only good for you and helpful when it’s needed, but once it’s fulfilled what it’s needed to fulfill, or it’s not done anything yet, it might be time to seek other options. The next thing that needs to be done, is not just embracing the emotions, but addressing them properly and letting them go, which is the third step in healing. Yes, this often times make people not look as emo, but they tend to be very supportive of whatever it takes for someone to be comfortable with themselves and release their pain. This can be found in a lot of people who were previously part of emo culture, but as adults, just mine really dabble in it and support the movement greatly. They keep a lot of their philosophies from before, but being emo was simply a steppingstone for further healing. I know at least for me, and many other people who have indulged in being emo, prior to doing so, felt immense pressure to never ever feel their feelings nor expressed them or even believe they are real, because they are deemed as bad, or even spawns of Satan that needs to be drowned out . While I did not have a Christian upbringing, I did feel like the only acceptable emotion was happiness and contentedness, even though I never felt content and happy was only a fleeting emotion for me, as well as many other people that embraced emo culture.
I believe strongly that Marilyn Manson felt this way as well, but he never learned to reach farther than Doving into email culture. This is very unfortunate and sad, and when you lose all sense of reserves for self love and comfort, being IMO goes into a vicious cycle rather than healing you, and then can lead to further damaging behavior. Perhaps somethings that would show that he was going to progress, was if earlier in his career, he decided to seek out mental health help, and get a good therapist, but also again, I could kind of empathize why someone wouldn’t necessarily get a therapist, because there’s an unfortunate amount of therapists that don’t do their job properly. Regardless, that does not excuse any behavior or lack of self-help of someone who stays IMO for longer than 15 years. This is also what happened to Bennington, the lead singer of Lincoln Park, where he stayed emo for too long, he stayed in a cynical place for too long, and committed suicide. In the short term, IMO might prevent suicide, but in the long term, either one dies a hero or live long enough to become the villain, like Marilyn Manson. It seems as if he became everything he himself hated when he was young, and while his parents seemed supportive on the outside, there may have been so much more that we don’t know, and at least I personally know that, how fundamentalist of any religion but especially Christianity is, it can really screw up one’s head, especially if there was strict parenting surrounding. It’s kind of odd to me that he tried to get negative attention, it seemed as if he didn’t conscientiously realize how much it hurt him. Why is knowing this all important for preventing anything like this ever happening again? Well, if we can address all this for anyone else who has email, whether it be ourselves or anyone else, it’s important to insist lovingly for self-help, or do whatever one individual can do, for example, helping that person or yourself works through insecurities, and I’ve heard it be mentioned many times how much he had a ton of self heat and I could really resonate with feeling deeply backstabbed when even there’s a little bit of hate for oneself. This is usually rooted upon childhood experiences where your fundamental value was seen as lower for something that didn’t matter enough for that to be appropriate, which normally it shouldn’t anyways, it’s not a good way of disciplining, and this is the reason why. The thing is, while I’ve still so many flaws and so so much to work through myself, and I would like to see this in him as well, which it seems it’s too late, is to work through that, and try to become less sensitive, via embracing that emotion and that sensitivity. It seems like he embraced the general aspect that he did not feel happy, but every little sensitivity that is noticed, well, first step, should be noticed and acknowledged, second step, should be embraced, basically, reassuring the emotion that it’s OK that it exists and it’s not shameful, and basically try to live with the emotion, which in fact prevents incidences of being overly reactionary, because first off, you are conscientious that it exists, and secondly, you no longer are angry at yourself and or are working on not being angry at yourself and hating yourself for having this emotion and telling the emotion that it has a right to exist, which actually prevents it from boiling up too much. This can take a process of months, years, etc., but it still is a continuum, until the third step and most important one, letting it go . I’ve seen many other people do this, and it would be great to see more of this. I feel this should be a fundamental thing that is taught in therapy, I don’t think it’s discussed enough. I think this would help a lot of people, if we did not judge our flaws, because that’s usually what keeps them there, is that we don’t forgive ourselves and allow the emotions to exist. Once all of that processing is finished, again can take years even decades at times, usually no more than 15 years though maximum, then I could finally be let go, because what actually ties it in, is that believing it’s an integral part of us, and something we hate about ourselves.
Sorry about how long this was, I just felt this was an important thing to discuss as well, because if we don’t address the reasons why Marilyn Manson and many others are like this in the alternative communities, then we might just see a vicious cycle of people pushing boundaries in a permissible manner that is not permissible by the rest of society, to make a point about how uncompassionate society is, only to become what they hate. This is fundamental one the right things aren’t focused on within, and by society itself. The more people that focus on these aspects themselves and for others, the less likely we’re going to see celebrities that at some point help someone’s emotions be worked out to then becoming the thing that they complain about in their very own songs. I just hope for a better world to live in, and I hope to do that by expressing how we can denounce someone’s horrible behavior at the same time realizing what kind of inconceivable or at least inconceivable pain for a lot of people, it took for someone to behave in a villainous manner. The more we hate on people who do bad things, the more people who do bad things will exist, it’s an unfortunate truth but it’s actually been found that in societies where people don’t feel judged for their actions, there’s much lower cases of crime and re-offense
@DasSinaTier
Disclaimer: I don't want to defend abuse or rape and I never will. Those acts are disgusting and should never happen.
Marilyn Manson has always said stuff to provoke and/or shock people. And he never cared what that reactions was. If you were in love - good. If you were disgusted - good. It was always open to interpretation, because it was always meant to be that way for him.
Unless there is a video of him defending himself in a police interrogation or in court in front of a judge, you will never get a straight answer from him and he would rather let you believe all those bad things about him than correct you about it.
Of course in a serious situation like now, this behaviour backfires. It already did when FBI searched his home, because they wanted to bust him as responsible for the Columbine Shooting.
If he did what is alleged, he should be convicted. I will condemn him then. Right now it doesn't look good, but it is more or less hearsay. We haven't heard all sides to the situation at hand. We thought the same when Johnny Depp was being accused by Amber Heard of abuse. We were all so quick to condemn him and denounce him and burn him at the stake.
Now we are not so sure anymore if we did the right thing.
And I won't do the same mistake twice - I will wait what a police investigation will bring. I hope they bring everything to the authorities so it can be handled professionaly. So in the end there is a conviction and clarity in a court of law, not in a court of public opinion.
@edwinsgeneration
UPDATE: Evan has named Manson and multiple other women have come out with stories about him. There have been a LOT of developments that I am actively working to compile for the follow up video. It is quite overwhelming, but I will try to have it for this weekend. Please share this video! It is only reaching a small number of people outside of my subscriber base and I believe it to be one of my most important videos. Exploring the incredible amount of correlations between real life and theatrics with the man behind the dope show. After a month in the making, I present to you a very heavy and tough watch regarding the abuse allegations (or rumors) surrounding Marilyn Manson. Please beware that some of the content in this video discusses sensitive. Thumbs up the video and share it on social media to support it. I feel we may be on the brink of more to come. *YouTube marked this video as limited to no ads which tends to limit recommendation among new viewers so I really appreciate everyone who has been sharing it!
@WarrenGBeatty
Very well done! 👏 ❤
@snoox27
I've learnt well in my life how duplicitous people can be.
REW made a claim without making a claim. Safe from a defamation lawsuit. I choose to believe that people are innocent until proven guilty.
There is no way to win in this situation. Proof or it didn't happen. As a DV myself I find non specific "allegations" troubling and feel they do more harm than good to victims in the long run. Do not "believe all women (or men" believe evidence!
@junevalkyriafreyasdaughtir
Sucks to admit but my mum was right disliking him.
Who has a suggestion on what I can do with the CDs I have and the Shirt ?
I don't want to be involved in art of a person that is heavily accused of unspeakable things and who seams more the guilty to me.
@actuallyNo...
@@junevalkyriafreyasdaughtir , burn them. He'd definitely not want you repping him, trust. Lolol.
@junevalkyriafreyasdaughtir
@@actuallyNo... thx for the suggestion. So kind of you
@tishjanuary7379
Evan Rachel Wood saying that she “would not change anything about their relationship” or that she “appreciates everything he taught her” could be interpreted multiple ways & many of them are not necessarily positive.
@jenniesweet_bean7579
Additionally, it's common for victims of abuse to defend or even speak highly of their abusers. I did it for a long time myself, and didn't realize what was actually going on or what happened to me
@modifiedholly304
@@jenniesweet_bean7579 I just think they were both on drugs. Which you can’t have an healthy relationship in that state. Also he is mentally unstable.
@paperplains7285
Gaslighting makes you believe something that isn’t real. Could’ve been a part of the abuse and manipulation she endured.