The Reflecting God

"The Reflecting God"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Antichrist Superstar
Released	October 8, 1996
Recorded	1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana
Genre	Industrial metal, alternative metal, noise rock, groove metal
Length	5:36
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Twiggy Ramirez, Trent Reznor
Producer	Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson
External links	Search ISRC Search at Musicstax

"The Reflecting God" is the fifteenth track on the 1996 release Antichrist Superstar.

Appearances

Albums

• Antichrist Superstar
• Lest We Forget – The Best Of

Versions

• The Reflecting God — Appears on Antichrist Superstar and Lest We Forget (The Best of).
• The Reflecting God (Live) — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth.
• The Reflecting God (Live) — Appears on the Guns, God and Government World Tour DVD.
• The Reflecting God (Outro) (Live) — Performed on the Grotesk Burlesk tour and Twins of Evil Tour; never officially released.
• The Reflecting God (Acoustic) (Live) — Performed three times during the Heaven Upside Down Tour: in Kyiv, Ukraine, Utrecht, Netherlands, and Lokeren, Belgium; never officially released.

Lyrics

   your world is an ashtray
   we burn and coil like cigarettes
   the more you cry your ashes turn to mud
   its the nature of the leeches, the virgin's
   feeling cheated
   you've only spent a second of you're life
   my world is unaffected, there is an exit here
   I say it is and then it's true, there is a dream inside a
   dream, I'm wide awake the more I sleep
   you'll understand when I'm dead
   I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
   saw heaven and hell were lies
   when I'm god everyone dies
   scar/can you feel my power?
   shoot here and the world gets smaller
   scar/scar/can you feel my power
   one shot and the world gets smaller
   let's jump upon the sharp swords
   and cut away our smiles
   without the threat of death
   there's no reason to live at all
   my world is unaffected, there is an exit here
   I say it is and then it's true,
   there is a dream inside a dream,
   I'm wide awake the more I sleep
   you'll understand when I'm dead
   I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
   saw heaven and hell were lies
   when I'm god everyone dies
   scar/can you feel my power?
   shoot here and the world gets smaller
   scar/scar/can you feel my power
   one shot and the world gets smaller
   "Each thing i show you is a piece of my death"
   shoot shoot shoot motherfucker
   no salvation, no forgiveness
   "this is beyond your experience"
   Forgiveness...

Trivia

• "Art of Dying" was the working title for the song.
• An instrumental version of "The Reflecting God" was used as an outro for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" during the Grotesk Burlesk tour in 2003 and sometimes during the Twins of Evil Tour in 2012.
• During live performances Manson has changed the chorus: "Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker!" purposely altering that on how it was worded on the initial release of the album, thus simplifying it for unknown reasons.
• When performing the song live, Manson often changes the lyrics "I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me" to "[...] and I was looking at you" and replace "heaven" with the name of the city were the band is performing.
• The song barely shares a sound similarity to a Sepultura song "Sarcastic Existence" released 7 years earlier on their album Beneath the Remains.