9 Times Marilyn Manson Was The Greatest Rockstar In Any Circle Of Hell

Album: Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000)

Killer Lyrics: “I got a face that’s made for violence upon / I’m a teen distortion / Survived abortion / a rebel from the waist down”

Manson has never shied away from violent lyrics. The band accompany him with ferocious music to get his work across in a way an eccentric solo poet never could. Between the anthemic “yeah” sections and Manson’s sneering lyrics, Disposable Teens is the quintessential Marilyn Manson call to rebellion, a challenge to oppose oppressive authoritarian institutions. The hard rock instrumental dictates the force at which to proceed. Disposable Teens has vivid moments of glam rock swagger brimming over from Mechanical Animals.

Manson’s lyrical revolt is best embodied with the lines “The more that you fear us the bigger we get […] Don't be surprised when we destroy all of it”. Manson borrows lyrically from a variety of sources notably the chorus which mocks The Beatles’ Revolution, as well as paraphrasing author George Orwell (“You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards”) and occultist Aleister Crowley ("I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated").