Marilyn Manson – We're From America

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  General Comment:Haha damn true song

  Flag Holydivingdioon November 02, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Okay.. no more of this "americans are stereotyped" shit.
  
  There are stereotype's for a REASON, you arent scared of black guys for no reason, fat people arent fat for no reason, religious nuts arent called religious nuts for no damn reason and yes there are people outside the stereotype but THATS the point of a stereotype!

  Flag Erevison October 10, 2009   Link

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  Memory:I also would like to apologise to the many people i have disturbed.i didnt know anything at the time but, this has allowed me to understand the world more.I hope the best for everyone even my worst enemy.I know that might sound strange but, i believe that is the way to be.The thing is we all are hoping the best for ourselves even if you are hoping the worst for someone else.

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  My Opinion:Im not the most intelligent of people and so many people have began to open my mind.I totally agree with mosama's first comment.How you said people fucked up Marilyn Mansons life. i dont understand why anyone would despise him unless you really knew him or took a walk in his shoes.I also agree that everyone in America arent screwed up "individuals" and the people that originate from America dislike it the most because some people give them a bad name.......So what im trying to say is i dont know much but i do know this.

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  General Comment:First off. If you're from another country, you probably don't know America as well as we do. So you would have no idea how to hate it as badly as we do.
  (p.s., australia is slowly becoming another america. the two are almost identical when it comes to igrance and fat people.)
  ANYWAY. here's what i think the means. (even though it's kinda repetitive)
  
  we're from america
  where we eat our young (stem cell research, abortions, or just the simple fact that we corrupt our residents from a VERY young age.)
  we're from america
  it's where jesus was born. (we've come to think that. "we're the shit")
  we're from america
  where they let you come on our faces (celebraties, god, the news. we gladly open our mouths and legs to anything something "higher" than us in the social status ladder)
  we're from america
  we speak american (hah this ones funny. if ask any typical american what language they speak, they'll tell you they speak american. .... there's no such language as "american" ha it's ENGLISH. (or mexican depending on who you ask ha)
  
  we don't believe in credibility
  cuz we know that we're fuckin incredible
  (can't be stated any clearer.)
  
  i wanna be a martyr
  don't wanna be victim (Martyr: a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.. ha I didn't know this deffinition of martyr before i just looked it up. but this makes complete sense now. ha we just want to get whine and get attetion for the bad stuff that happens to us, but we don't want it to actually happen. we don't want to endure suffering but we want people have sympathy for us.)
  
  be a killer with a god,
  so they call me a hero (using god as an excuse to "kill" example; OJ simpson, christian crusades, ect
  
  god is an excuse. (holy shit people, you need to see this already!)
  
  so sing it with me
  
  we're from america
  we're from america
  we're from america
  you can sing it with me.
  we're from america
  we're from america
  we're from america
  (like siam06 said. this part he's just making the song super dumb and generic to make fun of other boring bands that just repeat the same lyric over and over again. ha )
  
  don't like to kill our unborn,
  we need them to grow up and fight our wars
  (self explanitory.)
  
  we believe in everything we say
  we say it because we believe it.
  (we have no background knowledge of what we're saying. we just act convinced of what we're talking about. and then make other people believe it, just because we do. ha we lie to ourselves, then make other people think the same way we do.)
  
  
  we're from america
  we turn literature into litter. (perfect example, this website. more than half of the people, just on marilyn mansons page, can't spell right.)
  we're from america
  we believe in being a quitter (failing and quitting is okay, as long as you tried in america. nobody strives to be better.)
  
  i'm in recovery (probably saying.. he's recovering from the stupidity of americans. dissassociating himself from these monkeys, and trying to better himself.
  we're from america
  
  This song is boring as hell to listen to, but i completely agree with the message. I don't know why any american mother or organization has gotten mad and protested this song yet? i would've expected they would have by now.. ha maybe manson got away from scrutinization by conforming to their lame expectations of music, but then bitch slapped them once he got inside? ha and they didn't even realize it.
  maybe i'm just high

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  General Comment:It brings back the old Manson feel, but the album itself was so-so.... I'll comment more on it later, but I have nothing to say but what Has already been said.

  Flag FuckUserNameson July 13, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I feel like the lyrics aren't so much uninspired as superbeast86 said, as they are... purposely blunt. It goes with the whole theme of the song... Americans are stereotyped as fat and stupid. Why not dumb down a song intended to speak about them? It's a mockery of the repetitive and upbeat songs that are played over and over on mainstream radio all the time - the kinds of things that everyone loves.
  
  And I'm American, and I can agree entirely - we're fucked up as a nation, hypocritical and religious only when it's convenient. Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone.. but it applies to far too many people for anyone's taste, really.

  Flag siam06on July 04, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:This song is fucking brilliant and cool. Love the beat of it and the whole arrangement, though it might not sound like typical Marilyn, it's good stuff right there.
  The lyrics are right on track with the whole purpose of complaining about modern times, which are pretty messed up as I think we all agree, but it's not pretentious in doing so, it's just a crack at what the world sees as "American culture" and I think he might have intended the repetition and the upbeat of it as a mock , not a lack of talent. I see this becoming a huge hit, which would be the irony he could have intended.

  Flag dag_102on June 11, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:pretty self explaintory:
  "we don't believe in credibility
  cuz we know that we're fuckin incredible"

  Flag JuduHannahon June 06, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:this song feels like a really bad remake of Posthuman....some of the most uninspired lyrics manson has written in a long time

  Flag superbeast86on June 04, 2009   Link

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    Hmmm, it's almost like it's intentional...

    Flag grammarsaladon July 07, 2012  

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