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They slit our throats
like we were flowers
and our milk has been
devoured.
When you want it, it goes away too fast.
Times you hate it, it always seems to last.
Just remember, when you think you're free,
the crack inside your fuckin heart is me.
{Thought, not spoken}:
I want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day. And I
want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day.
I wish I could sleep,
but I can't lay on my back
'cause there's a knife for everyday
that I've known you.
When you want it, it goes away too fast.
Times you hate it, it always seems to last.
Just remember, when you think you're free,
the crack inside your fuckin heart is me.
{Thought, not spoken}:
I want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day. And I
want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day.
Lie to me,
cry to me,
give to me,
I would...
Lie with me,
die with me,
give to me,
I would...
always keep your secrets wrapped in death. Always.
always keep our secrets wrapped in death. Always.
Lie to me,
cry to me,
give to me,
I would...
Lie with me,
die with me,
give to me,
I would...
At least hope we die holding hands.
always. hope we die holding hands.
always. hope we die holding hands...
like we were flowers
and our milk has been
devoured.
When you want it, it goes away too fast.
Times you hate it, it always seems to last.
Just remember, when you think you're free,
the crack inside your fuckin heart is me.
{Thought, not spoken}:
I want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day. And I
want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day.
I wish I could sleep,
but I can't lay on my back
'cause there's a knife for everyday
that I've known you.
When you want it, it goes away too fast.
Times you hate it, it always seems to last.
Just remember, when you think you're free,
the crack inside your fuckin heart is me.
{Thought, not spoken}:
I want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day. And I
want to outrace the speed of pain
for another day.
Lie to me,
cry to me,
give to me,
I would...
Lie with me,
die with me,
give to me,
I would...
always keep your secrets wrapped in death. Always.
always keep our secrets wrapped in death. Always.
Lie to me,
cry to me,
give to me,
I would...
Lie with me,
die with me,
give to me,
I would...
At least hope we die holding hands.
always. hope we die holding hands.
always. hope we die holding hands...
Lyrics submitted by King Nothing, edited by midnightzone, momoericke
Track duration: 05:30
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"They slit our throats like we were flowers.
And our milk has bee devoured."
Everyone in space, aka HOLY WOOD, is dead inside.
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When you want it, it goes away too fast.
When you hate it, it always seems to last.
Just remember when you think you're free, the crack inside your fucking heart is me."
His life in HOLY WOOD. And that last line kind of goes with what is said in Antichrist Svperstar as a similar message to the beautiful people:
"When you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you."
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"{Thought, not spoken}:
I want to outrace the speed of pain for another day."
Self-explanitory
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"I wish I could sleep, but I can't lay on my back because there's a knife for everyday that I've known you."
This is about Coma White. He feels like as long as he's had his idea of perfection, it always feels out of reach; like it lures him and then deceives him, and eludes him.
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"Lie to me.
Cry to me.
Give to me.
I would."
Also about Coma White. He wishes that he could live out his ideal of perfection. Even if it were a lie.
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"Keep all your secrets wrapped in dead hair, for always. I hope that we die holding hands, for always."
He still wants to believe he can achieve perfection, and hopes that--one day--he can.
I think this may be relevant to the song as he too feels as if his essence has been drained and stolen (harvested) leaving him with anguish. Perhaps a good way to outrace the speed of pain would be to try and kill it with opiates. But then can we kill emotional pain with an opiate or are we just postponing it?
Again, I agree that this song is about a painful memory of love lost and about how we can be prepared for some pain and it just isn't enough for us whilst the pain you wanted to avoid the most will take its greatest toll on you when it hits and there's nothing you can do about it.
Billy wasnt credited in the song itself but was still thanks in the Albums Thanks page.
"i want to outrace the speed of pain' epicly amzing. i live my life to outrace the pain. and i can hurt myself cause i control it and i love the pain but when someone else brings it on me... it sucks.
pain is love.
love is truth.
truth is manson
cry to me,
give to me,
I would...
Lie with me,
die with me,
give to me,
I would...
it doesnt match, at all. The music is bittersweet in the sense that it goes from major to minor chord and a very distorted and dissonant bassline make a huge contrast for a bittersweet sound. It sounds almost like a 50's rock song with the traditional chord progression, but the contrasting tones and dissonant sound creates a mockery of the normal sound of music, and gives the music an ironic and sick deeper meaning. Most songs about loss are just about the loss itself and sorrow, not coping with it or wishing it on other people. this song is perfectly crafted in the way that it captures the feelings and actions of a tourtered soul. The restlessness and feeling of dispair and deprevation: "I wish i could sleep, but i cant. Cuz a knife in my back fro everyday ive known you" This captures the horrible feeling of time wasted: Every second i spent with that person was a second i was wasting and another second building up to this loss and pain. Also, there is hope in the end of the song when he says "at least we'll die holding hands", which could mean two things. Either they are connected by their loss and pain and torment
and are the only people that can understand eachother, but ironically hate eachother. So they are holding hands, in the sense that they understand, but the hate has killed them. It doesnt matter that they're holding hands; they're dead. Also, it could mean that they still love eachother but the animosity and loss have put such a barrier between them, that only death can connect them. It's such a good song, i listen to this song everytime i'm down or depressed because even if i cant relate to his situation, the feelings are so tangible and real, that I have to appreciate this song and manson's ability to catpure man's most primal and deep feelings.