Cover Songs

Here are the lyrics to all of the covers that the Manson Family has recorded thus far. 

JUSTIFY MY LOVE

(A slightly modified rendition of the Madonna Veronica Louise Ciccone Penn smash hit! From one of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids' early demos.) 

(Chorus: Wanting, waiting 
For you
To justify my love.)

I want you to my balls
In Paris, Niagara Falls.
I want you to lick my toes.
Los Angeles, San Francisco,
With the fags and the 'ho's.

(Chorus Twice)

Oh oh oh oh.
Oh oh oh oh.

(Chorus Twice) 

DOWN IN THE PARK

(Originally written and recorded in the late '70s by Gary 
Numan. From the Lunchbox CD single, 1994.)

Down in the park where the mad men meet,
The machines play kill-by-number.
Down in the park with a friend, Code Five.
I was in a car-crash, it wasn't the war;
But I've never been quite the same.
Little white lies like I was there.
Come to sounds of the place to weep
Like it was built in one day.
You've been watching humans trying to run.
Oh, look, there's a rape machine.
I'd go outside if it looked the other way;
You wouldn't believe the things they do.

(Chorus: We are not lovers.
We are not romantics.
We're here to serve you.)

Down to the park where the chant is "Death!"
Death until the sun cries, mo(u)rning.
Down in the park with friends of mine.

(Chorus)

A different face,
But the words never changed.

(Chorus To End) 

SWEET DREAMS

(Originally written and recorded in the early '80s by The Eurythmics. From the Smells Like Children EP, 1995.)

Sweet dreams are made of this.
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas.
Everybody's looking for something.

(Chorus: Some of them want to use you.
Some of them want to get used by you.
Some of them want to abuse you.
Some of them want to be abused.)

(Repeat First Verse)

(Chorus)

I wanna use you and abuse you.
I wanna know what's inside you.
(Whispering and Moaning:
Hold your head up, movin' on.
Keep your head up, movin' on.)

(Repeat Three Times)

Movin' on!

(Repeat First Verse)

(Chorus)

I'm gonna use you and abuse you.
I'm gonna know what's inside.
Gonna use you and abuse you.
I'm gonna know what's inside you.

ROCK & ROLL NIGGER

(A slightly modified version of the 1978 classic written and recorded by Patti Smith. From the Smells Like Children EP, 1995.)

And the world spreads its legs....
And the world spreads its legs
For another fuckin' star!
'Cause I AM the all-american Antichrist.
I was made in america,
And america hates ME for what I am.
I am YOUR shit.
You should be ashamed of what you have eaten.
I'm a rock & roll nigger!
Baby was a black sheep.
Baby was a whore.
Baby's gotten big,
And baby's getting bigger.
Baby got somethin'.
Baby want more.
Baby, baby, baby was a rock & roll nigger.
How do you like the world around you?
Do you like what you see?
How do you like the world around you?
Ready to be....

(Chorus: Outside of society,
Waiting for me.
Outside of society
Is where I wanna be.)

Baby was a black sheep.
Baby was a whore.
Baby got big,
And baby's getting bigger.
Baby got a gun,
Got her finger on the trigger.
Baby, baby, baby was a rock & roll nigger.

(Chorus)

Nigger.
Rock & roll nigger.
I'm a rock & roll nigger.
This is your world in which we grow,
And we will grow to hate you.
We will grow to hate you.
We will grow. We will grow.
We will grow to hate you.

(Repeat)

1-2-3-4!
I was lost in the valley of pleasure.
I was lost in the infinite sea.
I was lost and begging for pleasure.
And this world is waiting for me.
Jimi Hendrix was a nigger.
Jesus Christ and grandma, too
. Brian Warner (what a nigger!)
Nigger, nigger, nigger nigger nigger!

(Chorus Twice)

Yeah! Yeah!
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
FUCK YOU!

I PUT A SPELL ON YOU

(Based on the song originally written and recorded by Screamin' Jay Hawkins in 1956. From the Smells Like 
Children EP, 1995.)

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine.
I can't stand the things that you do.
No, no, no, I ain't lyin'. No.
I don't care if you don't want me
'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours anyhow.
Yeah, I'm yours, yours, yours.
I love you. I love you.

(Repeat Three Times)

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah....
I put a spell on you.
Lord! Lord! Lord!
....'Cause you're mine, yeah.
I can't stand the things that you do
When you're foolin' around.
I don't care if you don't want me.
'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours anyhow.
Yeah, yours, yours, yours!
I can't stand your foolin' around.
If I can't have you,
No one will!
I love you, you, you!
I love you. I love you. I love you!
I love you, you, you!
I don't care if you don't want me.
'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours anyhow.
Yeah.
(Screaming To End)

WHITE TRASH

(Based on the Marilyn Manson song "Cake and Sodomy" from album Portrait of an American Family, 1994. As performed by Tony Wiggins on the Smells Like Children EP, 1995.)

Virgins sold in quantity,
African-American heredity.
I'm playin' my guitar and I'm feelin' fine.
Why are all the niggers in the unemployment line?

(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.)

Teenage girl, a teenage queen;
'Til she's on video --
A PORNO queen!
She likes to give head.
She likes it mean.
That's why she's my little queen.

(Chorus)

Yeah....
White boy tryin' to get some behind:
"Who says date rape isn't kind?"
Who's he gonna goad?
Who's he gonna please?
It don't matter,
As long as she's on her knees.
(Chorus)


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