Wight Spider
"Wight Spider" | ||
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Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
Album | The High End of Low | |
Released | May 20, 2009 | |
Recorded | March 2008–January 2009 in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California | |
Genre | Alternative metal, gothic rock | |
Length | 5:32 | |
Label | Interscope | |
Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
Composer | Marilyn Manson, Twiggy, Chris Vrenna | |
Producer | Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna, Twiggy, Sean Beavan | |
External links | Search ISRC Search at Musicstax |
"Wight Spider" is the tenth track from the 2009 release The High End of Low. Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both it and eight other songs from the album.[1]
Contents
Music details
A blog by Metal Hammer describes "Wight Spider" as having "Massive chords replete with omonious semi-tones. This may not be groundbreaking stuff for the band, but it is what they do best. Spooky black-glam vocal delivery and taunting bullying choruses with falsetto layers that dance round you like a black mass meets the hokey-cokey. Lyrically, the themes fit, with accusations of "possession" and an aggressive recurring "you". Again there are melodic similarities to material from Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), but not so much as to be embarrassing. The pop-structures of previous tracks from the album are gone and what he learned from Trent Reznor is back – whether conscious or not: the track builds and builds without changing direction. Again the slower tempo brings the album average down, and you might find yourself wanting something a bit quicker to plug-in the aggression – the kind that has you pounding your steering wheel and you pass a born again Christian who's been blocking you since the service station on the motorway. Or something."[1]
In his review for The Quietus, John Robb explains that the song "drives along with a bass line that sounds like it was borrowed from everyone's favourite uber-Viking Peter Hook- that kind of snaking, one fingered, minor key thing."[2]
Appearances
Albums
Versions
- "Wight Spider" — Appears on The High End of Low
- "Wight Spider (Alternate Version)" — Appears on the deluxe edition of The High End of Low
Lyrics
I'll build you a shiny dollhouse a church where you can shrink into a tiny wight spider and gorge on horrid memories with conceited wings smother the past in a cocoon or me and i'll help you move all the bodies oh oh i'll possess you but i don't need you to be another one of my possessions i don't need you to be my possession and i won't make you kneel for anyone but me i won't promise a star don't promise your soul we'll say that we don't believe i'll keep you wet when the world is dry I can see them coming I'll take you back inside if they came for answers i'll wrap my claws round your mouth tight we'll consume each other until there's nothing left to hide and they can all drown in our blood i'll possess you but i don't need you to be another one of my possessions i don't need you to be my possession and I won't make you kneel for anyone but me i won't promise a star don't promise your soul we'll say that we don't believe and I won't make you kneel for anyone but me i won't promise a star don't promise your soul we'll say that we don't believe we can't haunt this home home anymore no no no no nowe can't haunt this home home anymore no no no no nowe can't haunt this home home anymore no no no no nowe can't haunt this home home anymore no no no no nowe can't haunt this home home anymore no no no no nowe can't haunt this home home anymore no no no no no
Trivia
- There is a painting with the same title.
- "Wight Spider" was initially meant to be titled "White Spider"; the title was changed after the song was recorded, but it wasn't necessary to record it again because of the same pronunciation of the two words.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marilyn Manson 'High End Of Low' Album Track-By-Track. Metal Hammer. April 7, 2009.
- ↑ Marilyn Manson's High End Of Low Reviewed Track-By-Track. John Robb. The Quietus. May 12, 2009