Smells Like Children (song)
This article is about the song
- for the EP see Smells Like Children (album)
- for the tour see Smells Like Children (tour)
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| Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Album | N/A | |
| Released | Unreleased | |
| Performed | 1995 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 4:29 | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Daisy Berkowitz, Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy | |
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"Smells Like Children" is an unreleased song that was initially recorded sometime during the Smells Like Children recording sessions and is considered to be a precursor to the song "Kinderfeld". While "Smells Like Children" is a hard industrial rock song in the vein of Portrait of an American Family and "Kinderfeld" is slow and atmospheric, they share the same basic structure played at different tempos. Also, several lines from "Smells Like Children" would eventually be reused in "Kinderfeld".
Although it shares its name with the Smells Like Children EP, "Smells Like Children" was not released on that album. It was, however, regularly performed live on the supporting tour.
Though live recordings of the song had been widely bootlegged for decades, a studio recording was not released until 2011, when Scott Putesky released it via the music website, SoundCloud.
Contents
Versions[edit]
- "Smells Like Children" — Kinderfeld demo appears on Antichrist Final Songs (listed as "Smells Like..." on the cover).
- "Smells Like Children" (Live) — widely bootlegged recordings from the Smells Like Children tour.
Lyrics[edit]
He lives inside my head, tells me what to say
When he turns the trains on, and he makes it go away
The hands are cracked and filthy, and the nails are beetle wings
When he turns the trains on, he unties all of the strings
Show me something beautiful, show me something free
Show me something beautiful, and I wish that I could be
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish that I could be
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish tomorrow would never ever come, come
Smells like children
Smells like children
He lives inside my head, and tells me what to say
The toys all smell like children, and the scab-knees will obey
I'll have to kneel on broomsticks, just to make it go away
If he turns the trains on, there is nothing I can say
Tell me something beautiful, tell me something free
Tell me something beautiful, I wish that I could be
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish that I could be
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish tomorrow would never ever come, come
Smells like children
Smells like children
Sometimes I'm feeling all those things
The things I shouldn't say
Sometimes I'm feeling all those things
I wish that I'd never, never...
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish that I could be
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish tomorrow would never ever...
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish that I could be
Someone, someone
Someone, someone
I wish tomorrow would never ever...
Smells like children
Audio[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- On most bootlegs this track is mislabeled as "Tell Me" and "Inside My Head".
