Marilyn Manson - Great Big White World Lyrics Meaning
This is my favorite Manson song, and I hope other Manson fans will post what they think. In this song, Rev. Manson pretty much takes the trip of a lifetime. He goes everywhere, he goes to heaven, hell, outerspace, you name it. Basically, he expected that he would go out and see a real white, real plain, real sad world, and he runs in to very few surprises. In the song, he offers very vague details, but he mentions the things thad did surprise him, like when he went to outer space, and the stars appeared as far away from there as they do from earth. The most shocking part of Rev. Manson's journey was when he arrived in hell. EVERYTHING about hell shocked him. First of all, it was freezing cold when he got there (the opposite of what most of us expect), and there were broken vases and roses all over the place. He does not specify what this symbolizes, so I think that perhaps he does not know. And then, he runs in to Jesus Christ's mother in hell, probably the last person you would expect to see there. When he talks to Mother Mary, he learns that she has had a miscarriage, and that is why she is in hell, she miscarried god's son. This is probably Manson's way of saying that people who are praying are wasting their effort, because he now knows for a fact that god never existed. His chorus "All my stitches itch, my prescriptions low, I wish you were queen just for today," implies that people get so caught up in their own, insignificant personal problems, that they never even stop to look, and see how bad their world is.