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Riff: Marilyn Manson – “Threats of Romance”

Oct 10, 2017

A girl is a man’s sickness/We all know the way it ends/No matter how many times we film it/The audience thinks they’ve seen it for the first time

from Threats of Romance lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Dialing it back to a slow crawl, and taking a close look at the courtship of rivals. Woman, according to Manson is man’s ultimately weakness. He’s obviously suffering from a broken heart, and his way of coping involves lashing out like a child; licking his wounds and weeping every step of the way. The lamenting doesn’t bind the overall message, leaving him confused and disorientated.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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