Marilyn Manson – No Reflection

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  My Interpretation:Doesn't anyone think it is simply about being not two faced? Not knowing which persona that you love because you only have one. Simply not being two faced.

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  General Comment:Maybe cruel world makes vampires from us.

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  General Comment:The plot thickens as we try to figure out how I found that tape or why it was in the video store. Since when do they even show that version of the video? My theory is that I was part of an experiment or had some sort of purpose. I had some influence.

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  General Comment:The plot thickens as we try to figure out how I found that tape or why it was in the video store. Since when do they even show that version of the video? My theory is that I was part of an experiment or had some sort of purpose. I had some influence.

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  General Comment:The only other production that i'm in is "I Want to Believe" (in the uncut version) and they took me out of context. At that point, I was still aware that something was wrong with me, and I tried to get kicked out of the military (review the records) then tried to kill myself a bunch. Around that time, I had what they used to call a "public outburst." Oh well. I just can't believe I'm a star :P or that anyone would find me remotely interesting.

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  General Comment:This one confused me a little bit. I know that it was Mrs. Putina and Mr. Putin. Apparently, we're at her feet. And to think, nobody else in this entire universe has ever had a celebrity crush. We're the only ones ever. Sinful, sinful me. Of course, they relate everything to this one fact and not the fact that they were stalking, raping and torturing me for months. When I'm scanning these videos, I get confused sometimes, but I recognized this one, as it is obvious. We're being killed for being traitors. Once again, we're just a group of poor, demoralized girls who need to be circumcised. As far as the dress, I think Marilyn is confused. Okay, see on my other blog, I wrote how to dismantle them, but i was crazy. That's why Putin killed me. They could have just arrested me. I wasn't telling him anyway, and i thought he was God, Indra and a T-rex all in one. i thought Russia was paradise (LOL) and that i had to beat the four directions to get back to it. I was secretly guarding a corner of hte universe. Don't believe me? Look up the blog. I was trying to bring down civilization as well. I was hearing voices. Not that I think that's an excuse, but yeah, it confuses you. I just needed to go to prison or, um, a hospital. I needed help. What Putin did was extreme. I'm not going to get into the details. If it really bothered him knowing how to fry equipment from decades ago, which he already knew, he could have shot me. Oh well. He inspired me to be hunted.

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  General Comment:I think you guys need to watch the music video to this song and pay attention to the visual symbols riddled throughout the video... I think it is pretty obvious that this is an attack on the church... or maybe someone specifically he knew in the church (his grandpa who he spoke about with his sexual addictions including sadomasochism)...... Then listen to the lyrics again while you watch the video...."I'm weak, 7 days, I'm weak" ..... Don't christians use church as there "drug" to keep them from their weaknesses? So 7 days without church and this guy is deep into his weakness... In this video is was love of women, and sex, and murder..... Look on the table in the video.... Only things on the table are break and blood (the body and blood of christ just like in communion)... The man in the video is trying to recreate a communion surrounded by his weakness (these women he is lusting after and wanting to kill).... They are all hesitant to take it.... Then they do and he kills them anyway..... "Don't bother running I won't bother counting 1, 2, 3" (three is the holy trinity).... "I don't know which me I love" many people in church lead two lives because they can't give up their weakness so they just battle it all of the time through the weak until they can get back to church and get their "fix"..... And him not having any reflection means he is not reflecting on his christian beliefs when he does the things he does with these women in the video..... This of course is probably supposed to pertain to all hypocritical church members who live double lives to keep up appearances (not just rapists,sexual predators, murderers, and what not)..... As we all know Marilyn Manson has issues with the church (who can blame him).... I am pretty sure that is what this song is about.... The double lives of christians and their weaknesses that they hide from those in church.... "Crushing, cheating, changing, am I deaf or dead" is the opening line.... Christians question themselves about their double lives because of their guilt (I know because I used to do the same thing when I was a christian about my homosexuality, but then I grew up and realized the church was wrong).... This man wants to know is he deaf or just dead to the message being preached to him every sunday, because it's not helping him with his addiction...." Is this constricting construction or just a road with rusty signs of violence to come"... He is referring to the archaic teachings of the church being rusty signs because they are old and out of date and no longer helpful for life today, and he is questioning if the church's teachings are just meant to constrict your life to the point that the weakness dies inside you, or just old out of date signs, and stories letting you know that the weakness is just under the surface waiting to violently erupt once you've constricted it too long and you can't keep it inside anymore.... Read the lyrics and watch the music video and I think this will all make sense to you guys....

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    I don't know. I think that they're trying to spread an agenda, and they wonder why nobody cares. Well, most people want to live and don't want to be bothered by this kind of stuff. I've lost faith but the FBI is either trying to catch them all, monitor them and contain them or something else. Enough rope to hang yourself kind of thing. I'm getting a little angry in my pony pin.

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  General Comment:... reminds me of vampires. can't help it. I have a vampire obsession... plus i am a vampire so..

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  My Interpretation:I discovered this song a couple of days ago and I already love it. I've had this love-hate relationship with Manson ever since The High End of Low but this song has certainly reassured me that the dark genius of Antichrist Superstar and Holy Wood is back. I like that. I really do.
  
  I think this song carries a very personal meaning. It seems like Manson is talking about a certain alter-ego, probably a rather evil and violent one. At least that's the impression I get from the music video and the overall sound of the song. Maybe this ego is overtaking his life and making people avoid him.
  
  "A gun's cliche, and a razor too
  I'm not a deathshare vacation, vacant station
  Made of scars and filled with my old wounds
  This'll hurt you worse than me."
  
  Think about it. He spoke about this being his "big comeback" so perhaps this song is his declaration of liberation from that alter-ego. Or maybe it fully overtook him. I don't know really.
  
  Also, I agree with TryingToBeHuman. It is definitely "I'm weak seven days a week".
  
  -M.

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  Song Meaning:The title of the song gives away what the song is about.
  
  The album comes off the The High End of Low where he once confused love with dependence and confused desire with weakness, but after The High End of Low he didn't confuse those things together anymore. And that's where Born Villain picks up.
  
  He no longer reflects on the past, and has "no reason" to do so again.
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  Also, its definitely "I'm weak seven days a week."

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    It might be, I actually didn't know that. Maybe the Marilyn without makeup in the video is representing the odl Masnon; if you watch carefully you can see that one of this girls is prectically making him kill the other girls, and after that she driks that wine herself. The 'heavy' Marilyn tries to save her but as he cannot he drowns her on a, i dunno, toilet?
    It's actually very difficult for me to understand it correctly as I didn't follow Marilyn's The High End Of Low era, and I neither read the Born Villain book.
    
    I can't stop listening to this song haha :P

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    I'm not sure there are two Mansons represented in the video, but to add to my explanation:
    
    The reason the song ends with being about not reflecting on the past is because its about him looking to change, because he became confused as to who he wanted to be. He said that when he was making this album, he decided he didn't like who he was; because he was straying from who he's always wanted to be because of the circumstances in his life including the Columbine thing and his exs. He also says that while it happens to everyone, this album was his personal way out of that confusion.
    
    When he went to write the album, he locked everything from his house away and basically just sat in it with a paper and pencil and "start[ed] fresh." So basically, he got away from is all so he could gain insight on being himself again.
    
    So the song is basically about the beginning of that process.

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    He is the devil, "No reflection." LOL You know the devil doesn't have a reflection.

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