In the past, band members dressed in outlandish makeup and costumes, and engaged in intentionally shocking behavior both onstage and off. Their lyrics often received criticism for their anti-religious sentiment and references to sex, violence and drugs, while their live performances were frequently called offensive and obscene. On several occasions, protests and petitions led to the group being blocked from performing, with at least three US states passing legislation banning the group from performing at state-owned venues. They released a number of platinum-selling albums, including Antichrist Superstar (1996) and Mechanical Animals (1998). These albums, along with their highly stylized music videos and worldwide touring, brought public recognition to Marilyn Manson. In 1999, news media, infamously, falsely blamed the band for influencing the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre.
As this controversy began to wane throughout the 2000s, so did the band's mainstream popularity. Despite this, Jon Wiederhorn of MTV, in June 2003, referred to Marilyn Manson as "the only true artist today". Marilyn Manson is widely regarded as being one of the most iconic and controversial figures in rock music, with the band and its lead singer influencing numerous other groups and musicians, both in metal-associated acts and also in wider popular culture. VH1 ranked Marilyn Manson as the seventy-eighth best rock band on their 100 Great Artists of Hard Rock. They were inducted into the Kerrang! Hall of Fame in 2000, and have been nominated for four Grammy Awards. In the U.S., the band has seen ten of its releases debut in the top ten, including two number-one albums. Marilyn Manson have sold in excess of 50 million records worldwide.
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Studio albums
Portrait of an American Family (1994)
Antichrist Superstar (1996)
Mechanical Animals (1998)
Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000)
The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
Eat Me, Drink Me (2007)
The High End of Low (2009)
Born Villain (2012)
The Pale Emperor (2015)
Heaven Upside Down (2017)
We Are Chaos (2020)
Minute of Decay
Marilyn Manson Lyrics
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Too tired today to hate
I feel the empty
I feel the minute of decay
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
(chorus)
The minute that it's born
It begins to die
I'd love to just give in
I'd love to live this lie
I've been to black and back
I've 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
I'm on my way down
I've looked ahead and saw a
World that's dead
I guess that I am too
(chorus)
I'm on my way down, I'd like to take you with me...
The lyrics in Marilyn Manson's song "Minute of Decay" convey profound feelings of emptiness, despair, and hopelessness. The opening lines, "There's not much left to love, Too tired today to hate," immediately set the tone of the song. The singer admits to feeling empty, as if life has lost all meaning. He is tired of feeling hatred, but he no longer has the energy to love either.
The chorus highlights the inevitability of death and the futility of life. The lyrics "The minute that it's born, It begins to die" suggest that life is fleeting and transitory, and that no matter what people do, they cannot escape the inevitability of death. The singer then confesses to his desire to give up and live a lie. He is so worn out by the empty promises of life that he is ready to embrace falsehood and deception as a way of life.
The final lines, "I'm on my way down, I'd like to take you with me..." adds a haunting and sinister dimension to the song. The singer seems to be inviting the listener to join him in his fall, suggesting that he is willing to take someone else down with him. The lyrics "Minute of Decay" metaphorically describe the fleeting moment of life, reminding people that their time on earth is short and that ultimately, everything decays and dies.
Line by Line Meaning
There's not much left to love
I have lost much of the genuine love I had before.
Too tired today to hate
The apathy and hopelessness that I am experiencing is so intense that I cannot summon enough energy to hate.
I feel the empty
I'm overwhelmed by an empty void that I cannot ignore.
I feel the minute of decay
I feel the gradual erosion of my spirit, as if my soul is beginning to rot.
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm feeling so low that I don't want to go through it alone, and I want to take someone down with me.
I'm on my way down
I'm gradually sinking into hopelessness and despair.
(chorus)
From the moment something is born, it begins to die. I wish I could give up and live this miserable existence without any expectations.
I've been to black and back
I've been to a place of complete darkness and emerged from it.
I've whited out my name
I've altered my identity to the point where it's no longer recognizable to me or anyone else.
A lack of pain a lack of hope
I'm too numb to feel anything, and I cannot see any way that things could ever get better.
A lack of anything to say
I'm unable to communicate because I can't muster up any words to express this unspeakable pain.
There is no cure for what is killing me
My mental state is beyond repair, and there's nothing that can be done to fix it.
I look ahead and saw a world that's dead
When I look into the future, all I see is a world devoid of life and hope.
I guess that I am too
I have been consumed by the same lifeless emptiness that surrounds me, and I have no way out.
I'm on my way down, I'd like to take you with me...
My sense of despair is so profound that I wish to share it with someone else, to drag them down into the same bottomless pit of despair.
Contributed by Jordan D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Antoinette Alvarez
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