Marilyn Manson: A Place in the Dirt Meaning

A Place in the Dirt Lyrics

We are damned and we are dead
all god's children to be sent
to our perfect place in the sun
and in the dirt

There's a windshield in my heart
we are bugs so smeared and scarred
and could you stop the meat from thinking
before I swallow...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 17th 2017 !⃝

   The protagonist is playing a concerned and caring god, but has been eclipsed and slowly dying by the dark shadows cast by the pope and his motorcade parade of a coming death. all the while the children of god have been gathered together like sheep to the slaughter to be buried there in their perfect place in the sun and in the dirt. This perfect place to die in, or for, could be the concentration camp of the state of Israel. According to these anti-semetic racial fake jews and fake Christians[Jesuit-Zionists]. Who's god is power,money and control, that guided the children there and waiting before the coming ''ugly head'' of the universal temple-church one world order that's also preparing the bed for this harlot whore that is really as cold as ice is, to cool off the antichrist's feet that will be on fire there in the hot and dry desert sands of Israel.
2. Invisiblewounds

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   Aug 10th 2009 !⃝

   "We are damned we are dead all god's children to be sent
   To our perfect place in the sun in the dirt"
   We were all created by god out of nothingness.But what was supposed to be a "divine" and a beautiful gift(life) is nothing but merely a rancid existence.And we are doomed to wander on the face of this earth.
   "Angels with needles poked through our eyes let the ugly light of the world in we were no longer blind,we were no longer blind"
   This might refer to the surgeons who with their sharp instruments cut us off from our mothers' wombs and exposed us to this alien world when we were better left lost in the seas of oblivion but now all that has changed and we've been burdened with conscience and free will. The last stanza suggests that there is nothing much that we can do about it but accept this hideous gift and wait for our death when well get a chance to dissolve into nothingness once again.The song has a very nihilistic tone but a more subtle message could be that God is flawed and we humans His children are suffering for his actions.

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