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Burning Flag - Marilyn Manson
Jon Craven (nojnevarc@hotmail.com)
Riff 1: (x8)
G:------------|---------------|
D:------------|---------------|
A:------------|---------------|
D:-R--R--R--R-|-R--R--0-6-0-R-|
Riff 2: (x8)
G:-----------------|-----------------|
D:-----------------|-----------------|
A:-----------------|-----------------|
D:-3-0-0-0-3-0-0-0-|-3-0-0-0-0-0-6-0-|
Riff 3: (x4)
G:---------------|
D:---------------|
A:---------------|
D:-6--6--6--0000-|
Riff 4: (x2)
G:--------------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
D:--------------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
A:-5--5--5--3-6-|-5--5--5--3-6-|-5--5--5--3-6-|-5--5--5-8-8-8-|
D:--------------|--------------|--------------|---------------|
Pause for 8 measures
Riff 2 (x4)
Pause for 1 measure
Riff 2 (x2)
Riff 3 (x4)
Riff 4 (x2)
Pause for 16 measures
Riff 4 (x4)
Break till end
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
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alex Wanna Be |
#1 by alex foster at Jul 13, 1989 at 12:09 AM EST |
| ok, heres what I THINK: "multiply your death divide by sex add all the violence and what do you get? WE ARE ALL JUST STARS and we're waiting" It is about the stars (celebrities). The prettiest people do the ugliest things...stardom is all about sex, death, and violence. you just need to be beautiful, not tallented (marilyn manson IS talented AND good looking, so its kinda a two for one deal!) ~Olivia~ | |
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Toshi Wanna Be |
#2 by Toshi hira at Mar 20, 1991 at 10:38 AM EST |
| This song sounds very much like "Burning Inside" by Ministry. The drums and guitars in the verses sound almost identical and almost everything else (vocal effects, production style) sound like that of a Ministry song. | |
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J. Wanna Be |
#3 by J. Stone at Apr 5, 1991 at 1:37 PM EST |
| it means that the current law of the western world is collapsing and this song is a big evidence to that even the people them selves r feelling it also, god be with them and us too. METAL 4 LIFE | |
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Sally Average |
#4 by Sally Gray at Oct 25, 1994 at 10:27 AM EST |
| I'm going to analyse lines in a random order. Just looking at these lines... "we are all just scarred and we're hating we are all just stars on your burning flag" ... should instantly give the meaning in my opinion. "Stars on your burning flag". The American Flag; the burning flag I think is to represent a country that's slowly being run in to the ground, a country which cannot be saved - once something's burnt, you can't restore it. The fact they're stars could mean the fact that they're there to glorify America, to show it up as a place of wonder and amazement - but really it's never been worse. "Scarred and we're hating", just shows how they hate what's become of their country and they can't believe that they have to live to see it. "They want to sell it out buy it up dumb it down" 'They', the government ?, want to have control and hope no one notices that they're slowly eliminating a freedom of speech. "dumb it down a good god is hard to find" A God who actually helps you, someone realistic to believe in because of the way religion seems to be going down the drain, so you have so many people opposed to it, and then so many people killing for their Gods. Neither of which is the right thing to do. Also, to use "dumb" and "God" in the same few words is ironic, a God is meant to be all powerful yet "dumb" implies a certain lack of power, helplessness and stupidity. "I'll join the crowd that wants to see me dead" More irony really. "you can point your gun at me and hope it will go away if god was alive, he would hate you anyway" Basically, violence solves nothing and people nowadays are whipping out their guns at any odd moment in order to win a battle when that does nothing. It most likely relates to the large religious groups who kill as a way of respecting their God, because surely a God loves everyone regardless of religion, race, etc...So killing God's people is a crime against Him/Them. He'd hate people who kill in order to prove a point. "my right wing is flapping the left one is gray" Relating to the political parties, they're mundane and out of touch, "flapping" can be related to when a person struggles in a panicked fashion to try and make a point and fails miserably. "let's hear it for the kids but nothing they say" Everyone says 'kids are the future', yet they don't listen to what the kids ACTUALLY think. "they gyrate and G-rate on Election Day" Gyrating has something to do with spinning, going in circles - so maybe they exclaim the same old lies over and over again like a broken record, and people fall for it and vote them in. "we got out ABC's and our F U C K" ABCs could relate to having an education. Maybe F U C K relates to the fact that people are possibly, finally, starting to see sense and realise their mistake with their chosen political party, since "FUCK" is usually exclaimed when you realise you, or someone else, has done something wrong. "multiply your death divide by sex add up the violence and what do you get?" That's pretty basic mathematics. He's pretty much spelling out the catastrophe that is the USA, in his opinion, in a simple formula people should understand. Well that occupied some time :] Manson FTW ! xo | |
