Stained Glass
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"Stained Glass" from The Long Hard Road Out of Hell | ||
Written by Marilyn Manson | ||
Released: | February 14, 1998 | |
Illustrator: | P. R. Brown | |
Publisher: | ReganBooks | |
Narrator: | ||
Media type: | Print (Paperback) | |
Length: | 288 pages | |
ISBN: | 0060392584 |
"Stained Glass" is a poem Brian Warner wrote to Night Terrors magazine in 1988. The letters along with the poem can be found in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
Poem
In the wooden silence
genuflecting fornicators
seek penance and false-toothed
idealists throw grub steaks on the offering plate
light a candle for the sinners
light a fire
self-pronounced prophet, parable seeking Protestant
preaches his diatomic dogma,
disembowelling indiscreetly.
Supplicate
congregate
the world looks better through stained glass
light a candle for the sinners
set the world on fire
Falsities
Falsities
Falsified, Factuality’s
All sitting like eager sponges,
soaking up the tertiary realities of life.
Trivia
- The poem can be found on page 58 in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
- The line "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire" was to be used 8 years later in the song "1996".
- The line "Falsities, falsities, falsified factuality's" was used in "All Fall Down", their first live-in-rehearsal track with former bassist Olivia Newton Bundy.