Album: Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) (2000)

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• There was Christ in the metal shell
  There was blood on the pavement
  The camera will make you God
  That's how Jack became sainted
  
  If you die when there's no one watching
  Then your ratings drop and your forgotten
  If they kill you on their T.V.
  You're a martyr and a lamb of God
  
  Nothing is gonna change
  Nothing is gonna change
  The world
  
  There was Lennon in the happy gun
  There were words on the pavement
  We were looking for the lamb of god
  We were looking for Mark David
  
  If you die when there's no one watching
  Then your ratings drop and your forgotten
  If they kill you on their T.V.
  You're a martyr and a lamb of God
  
  Nothing is gonna change the world
  Nothing is gonna change
  Nothing is gonna change the world
  Nothing is gonna change
  The world
  
  It took three days for him to die
  The born again to buy the serial rights
  Lamb of God have mercy on us
  Lamb of God will you grant us
  
  Nothing is gonna change the world
  Nothing is gonna change
  Nothing is gonna change the world
  Nothing is gonna change
  Nothing is gonna change the world
  Nothing is gonna change
  Nothing is gonna change the world
  Nothing is gonna change
  The world
  
  If you die when there's no one watching
  Then your ratings drop and your forgotten
  But if they kill you on their T.V.
  You're a martyr and a lamb of God
  
  Nothing is gonna change
  The world Writer/s: Brian Warner, Jeordie White
  Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 12

• Maria Isabel from New London, CtQuite a few songs on the HolyWood album refer to people who were assassinated as well as the killers. References to Oswald and Boothe are mentioned repeatedly.
• Cortney from Grand Junction, CoThis was the first manson song i heard and its the reason i have a love for him that is almost unnatural!lol,the lyrics are really meaningful and i just love this and every other manson song there is...
• Bob from Wheaton, MiI think this song is about how some peoples deaths go unnoticed and they are forgotten and how some peoples(famous) deaths are noticed and they are made a hero or martyr . For over 2,000 years Jesus Christ death is remebered because he lives and rose again. I've noticed because he noticed me.
  
• Tyler from Buffalo, NyI think this song is about how some peoples deaths go unnoticed and they are forgotten and how some peoples(famous) deaths are noticed and they are made a hero or martyr
• Paul from Sunnyvale, CaI hope marilyn manson's not saying that john lennon is taken as hero just because he was suddenly murdered.
• Kieran from Essex, Englandin accross the world it says 'nothings gonna change MY world' but in lamb of god it says 'nothings gonna change THE world'
  MANSON ROCKS!
• Harry from Luton, Englandmarilyn manson is in my opinion a legend as for lamb of god (the band) my god there amazing
• Tanya from Rotterdam, Netherlands"There was Lennon and a happy gun" refers to John Lennon of course, but also to The Beatles-song "Happiness is a warm gun" (White Album)I would say.
• Masha from Amsterdam, NetherlandsAnd if the hooooooooly lamb of goooood... Sorry.
• Billy Ross from Hagerstown, Mdlamb of god is also the name of a death metal band from virginia. i think they're from the richmond area.
• Ian from New York, NyIndeed
• Brittany from Toronto, CanadaManson Is Amazing!

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