The Reflecting God

Track 17 on Lest We Forget: The Best Of (International Editions)

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This song is the climax of Marilyn Manson’s album Antichrist Superstar, which is a concept rock-opera about the rise and demise of a fictional rockstar. The song is very… Read More

Oct. 8, 19961 viewer64.9K views

The Reflecting God Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your world is an ashtray
We burn and coil like cigarettes
The more you cry, your ashes turn to mud

The nature of the leeches
The virgin's feeling cheated
You've only spent a second of your life

[Refrain]
My world is unaffected
There is an exit here
I say it is and it's true
There is a dream inside a dream
I'm wide awake the more I sleep
You'll understand when I'm dead

[Pre-Chorus]
I went to God just to see
And I was looking at me, yeah
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When I'm God, everyone dies

[Chorus]
Scar, can you feel my power?
Shoot here, and the world gets smaller
Scar, scar, can you feel my power?
One shot and the world gets smaller

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[Verse 2]
Let's jump upon the sharp swords, cut away our smiles
Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all

[Refrain]
My world is unaffected
There is an exit here
I say it is and it's true
There is a dream inside a dream
I'm wide awake the more I sleep
You'll understand when I'm dead

[Pre-Chorus]
I went to God just to see
And I was looking at me, yeah
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When I'm God, everyone dies

[Chorus]
Scar, can you feel my power?
Shoot here, and the world gets smaller
Scar, scar, can you feel my power?
One shot and the world gets smaller

Scar, scar, can you feel my power?
Shoot here, and the world gets smaller
Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker
Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker

[Bridge]
Each thing I show you is a piece of my death

No salvation, no forgiveness
No salvation, no forgiveness
No salvation, no forgiveness

No salvation, no forgiveness
No salvation, no forgiveness
No salvation, no forgiveness

No salvation, no forgiveness
No salvation, no forgiveness (This is beyond your experience)
No salvation, no forgiveness

No salvation, no forgiveness (Forgiveness)
No salvation (Forgiveness) No forgiveness (Forgiveness)
No salvation (Forgiveness) No forgiveness (Forgiveness)
No salvation (Forgiveness) No forgiveness (Forgiveness)
No salvation (Forgiveness) no forgiveness

[Pre-Chorus]
I went to God just to see
And I was looking at me, yeah
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When I'm God, everyone dies

[Chorus]
Scar, can you feel my power?
Shoot here, and the world gets smaller
Scar, scar, can you feel my power?
Shoot here, and the world gets smaller

Scar, scar, can you feel my power?
Shoot here, and the world gets smaller
Scar, scar, can you feel my power?
One shot and the world gets smaller

[Outro]
Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker
Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker
Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker
Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

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This song is the climax of Marilyn Manson’s album Antichrist Superstar, which is a concept rock-opera about the rise and demise of a fictional rockstar. The song is very nihilistic, and is mainly about how life serves no purpose without death, and vice versa. It also talks about how there is no god, and that we are merely cigarettes to be lit and thrown to ashes in the never-ending expanse that is eternity.

ACCEPTED EDIT: The song is indeed nihilistic as it illustrates even in its title Nietzsche’s philosophy, as in his excerpt about the mad man yelling “God is dead” meaning each single man believes he’s god himself.

You can catch this Nietzsche reference in Manson’s godfather, Trent Reznor'sNIN’s ‘heresy"
“God is dead and no one cares”