[[Marilyn Manson lyrics]] [Intro] I am the god of fuck I am the god of fuck [^1] Go on and smile, you cunt [^2] \[Verse 1] Virgins sold in quantity, herded by heredity Red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind "Who said date rape isn't kind?" Porno-nation, evaluation [^3] What's this, "time for segregation" Libido, libido fascination Too much oral defecation [Chorus] White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy [Interlude] I am the god of fuck I am the god of fuck [Verse 2] VCRs and vaseline TV-fucked by plastic queens Cash in hand and dick on screen Who said god was ever clean? Bible-belt 'round anglo-waste Putting sinners in their place Yeah right, great, if you're so good Explain the shit stains on your face [Chorus] White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy [^1]: Marilyn Monroe was dubbed “The Goddess of Sex.” Marilyn Manson is the self-proclaimed “God of fuck.” In either Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi or The Family by Ed Saunders, various members of the Manson Family quoted Charles Manson as stating this phrase. Lynette Fromme, a member of the Manson family, claimed Charles Manson said, “I am the god of fuck,” after they first made out. Combined with Marilyn Monroe’s status as a sex symbol this line is likely a reference to Manson’s two namesakes. [^2]: [^3]: Manson rightly illustrates the illogicality of suppressed sexuality within religious circles. He asserts that those who find sexuality as taboo tend to actually be the “sickest” sexually, and rely on pornography in private to satisfy their human sexual urges. [[Marilyn Manson lyrics]] [Intro] I am the god of fuck I am the god of fuck [^1] Go on and smile, you cunt [^2] \[Verse 1] Virgins sold in quantity, herded by heredity Red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind "Who said date rape isn't kind?" Porno-nation, evaluation [^3] What's this, "time for segregation" Libido, libido fascination Too much oral defecation [^4] [Chorus] White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy [Interlude] I am the god of fuck I am the god of fuck [Verse 2] VCRs and vaseline TV-fucked by plastic queens Cash in hand and dick on screen Who said god was ever clean? [^5] Bible-belt 'round anglo-waste Putting sinners in their place Yeah right, great, if you're so good Explain the shit stains on your face [^6] [Chorus] White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy Time for cake and sodomy [^1]: Marilyn Monroe was dubbed “The Goddess of Sex.” Marilyn Manson is the self-proclaimed “God of fuck.” In either Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi or The Family by Ed Saunders, various members of the Manson Family quoted Charles Manson as stating this phrase. Lynette Fromme, a member of the Manson family, claimed Charles Manson said, “I am the god of fuck,” after they first made out. Combined with Marilyn Monroe’s status as a sex symbol this line is likely a reference to Manson’s two namesakes. [^2]: This sample is spoken by Marlon Brando in the 1972 erotic drama, Last Tango in Paris, which chronicles an anonymous sexual relationship between a recently widowed American hotel owner and a young Parisian woman. Marlon Brando’s character, Paul, says the lines to the his late wife’s corpse as part of a bitter monologue during a viewing at her wake: *"You lied. You knew you were lying! Go on, tell me you didn’t lie. Haven’t you got anything to say about that? You can think up something, can’t you? Go on, tell me something! Smile, you cunt! Go on, tell me… Tell me something sweet. Smile at me and say I just misunderstood."* [^3]: Manson rightly illustrates the illogicality of suppressed sexuality within religious circles. He asserts that those who find sexuality as taboo tend to actually be the “sickest” sexually, and rely on pornography in private to satisfy their human sexual urges. [^4]: “Oral defecation” is essentially just a graphic way of referring to people talking shit. [^5]: These lyrics reference buying pay-per-view pornography. In Marilyn Manson’s 1998 autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, he described being inspired to write these lines after watching two contrasting public-access TV stations: [In the hotel room] I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching [televangelist] Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number. On the adjacent channel, a guy was greasing up his cock with Vaseline and asking people to call and give him their credit card number. I grabbed the hotel notepad and started writing down phrases: “Cash in hand and dick on screen, who said God was ever clean?” I imagined Pat Robertson finishing his more-righteous-than-thou patter, then calling 1-900-VASELINE. As an anthem for a hypocritical America slobbering on the tit of Christianity, it was a blueprint for our future message. If televangelists were going to make the world seem so wicked, I was going to give them something real to cry about. Paired with the references to televangelists in the following lines, Manson makes use of this comparison to signify how perverse and corrupt religion can arguably be. [^6]: Manson criticizes the often hypocritical nature of white fundamental Christians, especially those in the Bible Belt, a region notorious for their evangelical Protestantism and conservative political views, sometimes tied alongside other stereotypes like “white trash” or rednecks. The hypocrisy lies in the stereotype of Southerners engaging in taboo sexual acts like incest, or in this case, watching pay-per-view porn. Manson further elaborates with some slick wordplay. The Bible belt -> anglo “waist”. The character here is undoing his belt, preparing to masturbate. Anglo-saxons are people of white English descent. Also, ”waist” (read ”waste”) is a synonym to trash. Thus “Anglo-waste” is also synonymous to ”white trash”, the theme of the song used in the chorus.