KEEP MY HEAD TOGETHER
Embrace Change, Spit Diamonds: Unveiling Marilyn Manson's Provocative Message
Lyrics
Do we get what we deserve?
Questioning whether individuals receive what they deserve in life.
Or do we deserve what we get?
Contemplating whether what people get is a result of what they deserve.
Steal from the last, fuck the past
Advocating taking from the past and disregarding it; focusing on the present.
Here is your present, let's take the future
Presenting the current situation and urging to shape the future.
Do we get what we deserve?
Reiteration of the question about deserving and receiving.
Or do we deserve what we get?
Repeating the contemplation on deserving and receiving.
Steal from the last, fuck the past
Reiterating the idea of taking from the past and disregarding it.
Here is your present, let's take the future
Repeating the call to focus on the present and shape the future.
Don't try changing someone else
Warning against attempting to change others, as it may result in self-change.
You'll just end up changing yourself
Highlighting the potential consequence of attempting to change others.
I keep my head together
Expressing the speaker's ability to maintain composure and sanity.
Better keep your head together
Advising others to also keep their emotions and thoughts in check.
You hand me a shovel and expect me to dig my own grave
Metaphorically given a tool to harm oneself, possibly symbolizing challenges or negativity.
You hand me a shovel and expect me to dig my own grave
Repeating the metaphorical scenario of being handed a tool for self-destruction.
Don't try changing someone else
Reiteration of the warning against trying to change others.
You'll just end up changing yourself
Reiterating the potential consequences of attempting to change others.
I keep my head together
Reasserting the speaker's ability to maintain composure and sanity.
Better keep your head together
Encouraging others to also keep their emotions and thoughts in check.
I fuckin' love you
Repetition of expressions of intense emotions and a paradoxical imagery of eating glass and spitting diamonds.
I love fuckin' you
-I eat glass
-And I spit diamonds
-I fuckin' love you
-I love fuckin' you
-I eat glass
-And I spit diamonds
-I fuckin' love you
-I love fuckin' you
-I eat glass
-And I spit diamonds
-Don't try changing someone else
Repeating the warning against trying to change others.
You'll just end up changing yourself
Reiterating the potential consequences of attempting to change others.
I keep my head together
Reaffirming the speaker's ability to maintain composure and sanity.
Better keep your head together
Encouraging others to also keep their emotions and thoughts in check.
Keep my head together
Repeatedly expressing the desire or determination to keep one's head together.
Keep my head together
-Keep my head together
-Solve coagula
Reference to "solve et coagula," a alchemical principle meaning to dissolve and coagulate, possibly symbolizing transformation or change.
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