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Riff: Marilyn Manson – “Heaven Upside Down”

Oct 10, 2017

And I tried to look inside you/I ended up looking through you/Now, you try to tell me/You’re not a ghost

from Heaven Upside Down lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Organic instrumentation has him delving deeper into the heart of the album. The world is spinning backwards; up is down, left is right and what was perceived as heaven is actually hell. The American Dream has been twisted and turned inside out, hole-punched to such a degree that it is unrecognizable. He’s holding up a mirror, revealing to the world the twisted image being reflected back.

 

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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