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Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television The Cure – One Hundred Years

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You’re watching news coverage of a military conflict, stroking your hair in worry as patriotic, freedom-fighting soldiers are killed by opposing forces.

The line could be referring to a number of different incidents. The particular conflict is not specified.

Picture from the Lebanon War, which started one month after the Pornography album was released.

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The opening line of this verse reflects the apathy of the opening line of verse 1. As conflict arises, the subject singing the song does nothing more than stroke his hair anxiously, symbolically domesticating the emancipatory spirit that longs to be freed and to free others from the simulation he lives in and join something with a purpose more concrete than the grey cubicle of a lifeless office building.

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Ambition in the back of a black car The Cure – One Hundred Years

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Robert Smith’s ambition is dead. The “black car” he alludes to is a hearse, a vehicle used to transport coffins (and, in turn, dead people) from a funeral home to a graveyard.

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Or perhaps he’s trying to express how ambition (at least the kind that’s purely egotistical and self serving) is futile when put into the perspective of our mortality. Think about the men and women whose lives are driven by the ambition of attaining status and material things, which will be of no importance to them when their time comes. All of their lives they’ve been ambitous and chasing success, only to end up “in the back of black car” like the rest of us.

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Well, I'm heading down a southern trail, I'm going chicken huntin' Insane Clown Posse – Chicken Huntin'

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“Chicken” is a juggalo term for redneck.

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I used to lose it on niggas on 4th and 8th Street DJ Muggs & GZA The Genius (Ft. Masta Killa & Prodigal Sunn) – Unstoppable Threats

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GZA used to rap on 4th Street in Manhattan, New York, as well as Main Street, which could be referring to any of New York’s “Main Street"s. There’s a Main Street in each of New York’s five boroughs.

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Lamb of God Marilyn Manson – Lamb of God

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“Lamb of God” is an song on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), in which Marilyn Manson comments on the way in which the media makes martyrs out of public figures who are killed. It is part of the cult of personality that Holy Wood as an album investigates.

Holy Wood, which isn’t even that great of a hyperbole of America, is a place where an obituary is just another headline. Where if you die and enough people are watching, then you’re famous
- Marilyn Manson

It’s interesting to note that the song takes several elements from other songs, mostly by Manson’s favorite artists. “Nothing’s going to change,” for example is a variation of a Beatles lyric from the song “Across the Universe,” while the song is sung in the tune of Radiohead’s “Climbing Up The Walls.” It re-enforces a concept Manson often discussed when this record came out: “We are the TV. We’re a copy staring at a copy, of a copy of a copy… Eventually it’s a xerox that’s so degenerated we don’t know what came first.”

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"Lamb of God" is an song on [*Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)*](http://genius.com/albums/Marilyn-manson/Holy-wood-in-the-shadow-of-the-valley-of-death), in which Marilyn Manson comments on the way in which the media makes martyrs out of public figures who are killed.  It is part of [the cult of personality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality) that *Holy Wood* as an album investigates.

> Holy Wood, which isn't even that great of a hyperbole of America, is a place where an obituary is just another headline. Where if you die and enough people are watching, then you're famous
- Marilyn Manson

It's interesting to note that the song takes several elements from other songs, mostly by Manson's favorite artists. "Nothing's going to change," for example is a variation of a Beatles lyric from the song "Across the Universe," while the song is sung in the tune of Radiohead's "Climbing Up The Walls." It re-enforces a concept Manson often discussed when this record came out: "We are the TV. We're a copy staring at a copy, of a copy of a copy... Eventually it's a xerox that's so degenerated we don't know what came first."

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“Nothing’s going to change…the world “ is a double entendre, or a phrase having two meanings . I perceived “Nothing’s” as being a person, place, or thing. As well as “Nothing’s” being; emptiness, darkness, and failure. When we think about it as having BOTH meanings (which are so cleverly written) one cannot help but piece the rest of the lyrics as fitting so eloquently together.

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Body parts in the freezer
I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer but I'll slaughta ya momma Masta Ace Incorporated – Slaughtahouse

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Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who killed over 17 men and kids. He also liked to eat the body parts of his victims, not counting the few “souvenirs” which he preserved by storing in either his fridge or freezer respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbcYKNi_nAY

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Blood and guts are gonna spill
'Cause it's murder murder murder, and kill kill kill Masta Ace Incorporated – Slaughtahouse

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Fun fact: The “Murder murder murder, and kill kill kill” part was later sampled by Eminem on the song “Murder, Murder,” from his 1997 underground release The Slim Shady EP. The line can be heard on the hook from that song.

The line has also been quoted in 2Pac’s “If I Die 2Nite”.

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Here come the craziest niggas on earth
Cutthroats, ever since birth Masta Ace Incorporated – Slaughtahouse

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cut·throat

A murderer, especially one who cuts throats.
An unprincipled, ruthless person.

Considering the context, it’s safe to assume they’re crazy in a ‘ruthless murderer’ way, not a “UFOs stole my cattle” way.

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This is MC Negro
And this is this Ign-ant MC Masta Ace Incorporated – Slaughtahouse

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These are two fictional rappers created by Masta Ace, clearly parodies of violent hardcore rap acts of the early 1990’s, which were both numerous and popular at the time.

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I can knock down a mule like Conan the Barbarian Onyx – Betta Off Dead

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Conan the Barbarian was a 1982 adventure film about a slave turned warrior who seeks revenge for the death of his parents and tribe. It was based on the Conan graphic novels, and features this scene of Arnold Schwarzenegger punching a horse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSO_RRkmh8Q

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