Putting Holes in Happiness by Marilyn Manson (Explication)

Note: Due to content, the actual music video could not be posted.

Lyrics:

The sky was blonde like her/It was a day to take the child/Out back and shoot it./I could have buried all my dead/Up in her cemetery head/She had dirty word witchcraft/I was in the deep end of her skin./Then, it seemed like a one car car wreck/But I knew it was a horrid tragedy./Ways to make the tiny satisfaction disappear.

Blow out the candles/On all my frankensteins./At least my death wish will come true./You taste like Valentine's and/We cry,You're like a birthday./I should have picked the photograph/It lasted longer than you.

Putting holes in happiness./We'll paint the future black/If it needs any color./My death sentence is a story/Who'll be digging when you finally let me die?/The romance of our assassination/If you're Bonnie, I'll be your Clyde./But the grass is greener here andI can see all of your snakes./You wear your ruins well/Please run away with me to hell.

Blow out the candles/On all my frankensteins./At least my death wish will come true./You taste like Valentine's and/We cry,You're like a birthday./I should have picked the photograph/It lasted longer than you.

Taking a turn from his usual, Marilyn Manson digs deeper (no pun intended) into his feelings and thoughts on his divorce and the pain of moving on. Allusions to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is apparent in " The sky was blonde like her". Like Carroll, Manson was involved in a relationship with a much younger woman after his divorce. The younger woman symbolizes the innocent child. Knowing that society would not except such a relationship and "take the child/out back and shoot it." He is then left with "buried dead" he wishes he could of buried with his ex-wife. With "the dirty word witchcraft", she brought him down with words and put him in a depressed state.

"Blow out the candles/On all my frankensteins. " refers to the cycle of relationships that seem to have been blown out and re-lighted only to be blown out again. The frankenstines allude to his failed hopes and means of procreating. As the years pass by, the photographs remain, but the cycle continues. In other words, love is hopeless.

In the third stanza, he refers to love as a drama filled with assassinations, criminals, and demons. His love life has been thrown out and documented for everyone to to see like that of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde. In doing so, a part of him dies. He asks, "Who'll be digging when you finally let me die?" There is a part of him that wants to be with her, but he knows her manipulation and "can see all of her snakes".