...continued from part one. II. PART ONE (A) In the first of three episodes for the docuseries Marilyn Manson: Unmasked , we are introduced to Marilyn Manson in a shocking way from the very beginning. I'm not sure the origins of the video clip, as I've never seen it before, but it is around 1995 and it shows him wearing an Adam Ant t-shirt with red lipstick smeared around the area of his mouth as he is being interviewed in a fairly crowded room of bandmates and groupies, while he randomly lights a fire in the middle of the floor. The first words spoken by Manson are the following: "Marilyn Manson is about transcending morality and sexuality; no boundaries, grey area - that's us." As he says this, two women are standing in front of him making out with each other. When he is asked: "Any accessories?" he replies: "Accessories? These two girls are accessories," pointing towards the two girls getting it on with each other who are now behind him. The...
It is my intention to explore the Marilyn Manson album One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 in its entirety, one track and music video at a time. There are two things I want to establish before I begin:
1. I believe the album takes place in the Holy Wood "universe", which Manson described as an "alternate dystopia of Hollywood where everything is taken to the extreme," and which was first explored in Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood - the so-called Tryptich - and continued to pop up on other albums.
2. I also believe that the album is a metaphor which can be applied to Manson's life, but not only. This also aligns it with what the Tryptich essentially is as well.
My thoughts for the interpretation of the album will probably evolve over time, especially since this is only the first half of the story, as Manson mentioned in a statement, and we will have a much clearer picture of the entire story when Chapter 2 is released some time in 2025. At that time you can expect some corrections in my interpretation. However, I don't plan on going too deeply into this album, primarily because Chapter 2 should help clarify many things.
The symbolism and metaphors of Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood are very rich, and I believe much of the same can be said for this album.
One key factor to keep in mind from those earlier albums and continued in the cycle of this album is the concept of Celebritarianism with a reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is not by coincidence that One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 was released on November 22nd, which was also the day JFK was assassinated on. In the dystopian city of Holy Wood, Jesus Christ was the first celebrity, the first rock star, who was marketed through his suffering and death. The closest modern American figure who follows this blue print was John F. Kennedy, but with him there are also other dead stars marketed by their suffering and death. In Holy Wood, these dead stars are like the new saints, and Jackie Onassis is like the modern Virgin Mary. John F. Kennedy as a modern day Christ figure is a reference to how religion kind of sprouts. Manson reenacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the 'Coma White' video is him showing that he uses it as a metaphor for his life, which he also connects with the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. In the 'Coma White' video portraying a crucified and deified Marilyn Manson (whose very name evokes the essence of Celebritarianism) in the role of JFK, it expresses how Kennedy had become a "second Christ" in the eyes of America when his televised assassination had made him into a martyr to the popular consciousness. In Holy Wood violence is the religion of the masses and the patron saints are dead stars, thus we have Celebritarianism, a religion based on death with rituals that echo those of Roman Catholicism and its Mass, where its citizens devour celebrity as set by precedent of the first celebrity, Jesus Christ, who offered his body and blood to be consumed in the form of bread and wine.
Let's begin by breaking down the first track. The lyrics for all the tracks can be found on Marilyn Manson's official website.
I. ONE ASSASSINATION UNDER GOD
The title plays with the line from the Pledge of Allegiance which in its original form speaks of the United States as being "One Nation Under God," with Manson changing the word "nation" into "assassination". Just like in the album Holy Wood, assassination is evoked through people like John F. Kennedy and John Lennon to bring us into the dystopia known as Holy Wood, where dead stars are the new Christ and saint figures, built off the fact that America has a strange fascination with death and celebrity. As Manson sang in 'Lamb of God', "The camera will make you God," which means that a death captured on camera in Holy Wood deifies you.
[First Verse]
The first verse of 'One Assassination Under God' begins with the lines: "You gave us what we wished for, a few tangled strings attached."
When I listen to the first lines of this song, my mind goes to the song 'Man That You Fear' from Antichrist Superstar, specifically to the line repeated at the end: "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." Marilyn Manson became the rock star he wished to become and dreamed about, and in the process became the man he feared as a child and now the man that everyone else fears, which is why in the music video for the song he is condemned to die as a sort of sacrifice, sort of like a scapegoat who people put the blame on out of fear and superstition. The song also has the line, "I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot escape," which speaks of an attachment to something like a spider web that he cannot escape from being sacrificed.
The imagery of being granted a wish is also interwoven with the imagery of the story of The Wizard of Oz, where a journey is made to meet the wizard in order to be granted what one most wishes, but when you encounter the wizard you "pull back the curtain" and find out the true identity of the one who grants the wishes, that he is not the powerful figure he appears to be, but rather a frightened and insecure man. The wizard still grants the wishes, and the journey comes to an end, but you have a responsibility with the new gift you have been given.
“Pull back the curtain” is an idiom that refers to a moment of revelation when a hidden secret is revealed, or when an illusion is shattered. It's often used to describe a moment when the truth is seen clearly. The phrase can also be used to describe the act of examining one's life and circumstances to see things as they are, and to envision how one would like things to be.
"I won't suffer for your amusement." People of high status or celebrity are often resented, attacked, cut down, or criticized, mostly out of envy. If someone were to feel joy by their fall from grace, they would be experiencing amusement and pleasure towards their suffering.
"There's no more dreams for me to sell." The tenets of the American Dream originate from the Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal", and have an inalienable right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." When you have been given what you wished for, and are now a scapegoat in America, what dreams do you have left?
"I choose my nightmares wisely." With no more dreams, all you have are nightmares, so you better make a wise decision in which nightmare to choose.
"Don't wanna ruin the story, but it doesn't turn out well." In a similar fashion, from an interview with Metal Edge in July 1999, Manson explains the connection between John F. Kennedy and Jesus Christ on Mechanical Animals, saying: "In the end it's a parable about fame and love and what matters to you the most, but I can't say it's got a happy ending. The video for 'Coma White' is adapted from my script, so it will be a bit of a teaser, a hint at what people can expect." And in a 2003 interview, when speaking of his unpublished novel Holy Wood, he explained: "It’s a very traditional orphic tragedy, like Romeo and Juliet. The main character was inspired by a girl in my life, and the ending isn’t a happy one." Sometimes Manson says in interviews about certain albums that the ending, whether its tragic or happy, is up to the listener, but here we are being told right from the beginning that the story doesn't turn out well.
[Pre-Chorus]
"You will always be entertained." No matter what it is that Manson has in store for us, even if it doesn't turn out well, even if he doesn't want to suffer for your amusement, we will always be entertained. As Manson sings in 'The Fall of Adam': "They orchestrated dramatic new scenes for Celebritarian needs." We are in a new cycle, ritualistically repeating what was experienced in the Tryptich, just like a Roman Catholic Mass is repeated over and over again.
[Second Verse]
Skipping over the chorus, let's first look at the second verse of the song.
"Put me inside the animal, stitch it up and shove us off a cliff." The imagery seems to come from the 2019 movie Midsommer, where in one scene a character is sacrificed as a punishment by being stuffed inside a disemboweled bear, and in another earlier scene a sacrifice is made by elderly characters voluntarily jumping off a cliff to their death. Manson here could be alluding to being subject to a similar fate. Thus a sacrifice shoved over a cliff most likely refers to the ancient practice of a ritualistic act where a scapegoat, often an animal, would be symbolically loaded with the sins of a community and then pushed off a cliff to be left to die in a remote location, effectively carrying the community's sins and negativity away with it; this is most commonly associated with the Jewish tradition of the "scapegoat" on Yom Kippur.
"When they tear the wings from all the swine, just monkeys will be left to fly." The first figure of speech of a pig or a swine flying or a pig having wings signifies something that is impossible, so if a swine does have wings then they can only have them in one's imagination where we are free to picture a swine with wings, so torn wings from a swine could be the destruction of the imagination, which is where art is conceived. There is a popular reference to the figure of speech of a pig flying in chapter 9 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The second figure of speech of monkey's flying is perhaps another reference to The Wizard of Oz, where in the book the winged monkeys started as free creatures living in the jungles of the fictional Land of Oz, and though they were carefree they were also mischievous, and we are told that because they pulled a prank which infuriated a princess, she had a sorceress enslave them to obey the Golden Cap and anyone who wears it, and this cap eventually falls into the hands of the Wicked Witch of the West, who uses the monkeys to help her gain territory and power in Oz. What Manson could therefore be saying by these figures of speech is that his imagination and freedom are being desecrated and destroyed.
"Pilot light has flickered out" is the opening line Manson used previously on the audio track called 'Doppelherz' which was featured in his short film of the same name from 2003. Manson has used other lines from this long track on several songs of his other albums, and is here using it again. In the July 2003 issue of Outburn Magazine, Manson explained this track as follows: "It’s a stream of consciousness, absinthe fueled rant that may have ended up being a suicide note the way I was going this particular night, because I had received a bunch of bad news this day. I had everyone leave the room and I just wanted to say what I wanted to say. We created images to go with it. I played it for the record company, and it’s 35 minutes long or something like that. Ten minutes into it, I’d say, 'Yeah, that’s the single,' but there was no music. It was just me talking. Then they would kind of laugh, 'Oh, that’s funny, Manson, but really...' and I’d just say, 'That’s really it.' At a couple points during the making of the record, between my manager and the record company, they wanted to put the whole thing to an end and probably send me to rehab for mental intervention, literally." From this we can infer that a pilot light flickering out is like a star flickering out, when someone has run out of gas or energy and has slowly dimmed till he is now immersed in darkness and despair.
"And all the ashes will be screaming." The ashes could be from the burning sacrifice, the screaming of the ashes could be a sign of injustice for sacrificing someone innocent. However, if we follow the themes of this second verse, my thinking for this line takes me to the artist Edvard Munch, who in 1893 painted his famous The Scream and in 1894 painted a lesser known work called Ashes. The latter indicates that when lovers are consumed by the hot flame of passion their love turns to ashes, while the former illustrates the anxiety and uncertainty of the human condition.
"No one can hear my last words, and no encore once we say goodbye." I assume his last words can't be heard because the ashes are screaming. It also reminds me of the well-known tagline from the 1979 horror movie Alien: “In space no one can hear you scream.” The tagline is a reference to the fact that there is no sound in space because there is no air for sound waves to travel through, so if you want to scream for help in space, no one will hear you and come to help you. It evokes extreme isolation and despair. "Last words" indicate the words spoken before a separation or death, and "goodbye" evokes a separation or death as well. "No encore" is related to a theater or entertainment experience that suddenly comes to an end.
[Chorus]
"Everybody showed up for the execution, but nobody would show their face." This line seems to be related with the 'Four Rusted Horses' line: "Everyone will come to my funeral to make sure that I stay dead." Everyone showing up recalls a time when executions were a public spectacle and part of communal entertainment. Attendance was often encouraged and sometimes mandatory to serve as a lesson to intimidate and deter people from breaking the law. The last formal public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. People attending an execution and not showing their faces is similar to how the Ku Klux Klan operated, who tried to hide their identity and did things they were afraid to be associated with and ashamed to do publicly.
"To shoot you in the back of the head and call it sacrifice." Marilyn Manson's album One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 was released on November 22, 2024. President John F. Kennedy was shot in the back of the head at his assassination on November 22, 1963. The bullet entered the back of Kennedy's head, causing a large exit wound in the front of his skull. The bullet's trajectory left bullet fragments throughout his brain. The JFK assassination as a sacrifice is a reference to the manuscript King Kill 33 by James Shelby Downard and Michael A. Hoffman. The 1993 documentary Kennedy: The Sacrificed King examines the theory also that the assassination of President Kennedy was a masonic ritual killing, hence a sacrifice. It should be noted that John Wilkes Booth also shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head while he was watching the play Our American Cousin.
"They don't deserve to even say your name." Those who are executing the one being sacrificed, with their faces covered, are not worthy to even say the name of their victim. If we were to expand on the previous possible Masonic reference, then this can also be applied to the name of God. One of the most important symbols in Freemasonry is the ineffable, or incommunicable name of God. The Kabbalists believe the name of God is concealed. The name of God is too sacred to utter.
[Bridge]
The word "Assassination" is repeated four times, with the fourth being a loud elongated scream.
An "assassination" is the targeted killing of a public figure for political, religious, or ideological reasons. Assassinations can be used to seize power, start a revolution, or undermine a regime. They can also be used as propaganda to draw media and political attention to a cause. Assassinations can have severe negative consequences, such as weakening society and the economy, and undermining democratic processes.
[Outro]
"Sacrifice. It's not a sacrifice (3X). Not a sacrifice (3X)."
A "sacrifice" is a religious rite where an object is offered to a deity to establish or restore a relationship with the sacred order. Sacrifice can be a way to atone for sin, express gratitude, or draw near to a deity. In ancient Judaism and Greek religion, the most common offering was a burnt offering.
PART 2
1. I believe the album takes place in the Holy Wood "universe", which Manson described as an "alternate dystopia of Hollywood where everything is taken to the extreme," and which was first explored in Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood - the so-called Tryptich - and continued to pop up on other albums.
2. I also believe that the album is a metaphor which can be applied to Manson's life, but not only. This also aligns it with what the Tryptich essentially is as well.
My thoughts for the interpretation of the album will probably evolve over time, especially since this is only the first half of the story, as Manson mentioned in a statement, and we will have a much clearer picture of the entire story when Chapter 2 is released some time in 2025. At that time you can expect some corrections in my interpretation. However, I don't plan on going too deeply into this album, primarily because Chapter 2 should help clarify many things.
The symbolism and metaphors of Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood are very rich, and I believe much of the same can be said for this album.
One key factor to keep in mind from those earlier albums and continued in the cycle of this album is the concept of Celebritarianism with a reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is not by coincidence that One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 was released on November 22nd, which was also the day JFK was assassinated on. In the dystopian city of Holy Wood, Jesus Christ was the first celebrity, the first rock star, who was marketed through his suffering and death. The closest modern American figure who follows this blue print was John F. Kennedy, but with him there are also other dead stars marketed by their suffering and death. In Holy Wood, these dead stars are like the new saints, and Jackie Onassis is like the modern Virgin Mary. John F. Kennedy as a modern day Christ figure is a reference to how religion kind of sprouts. Manson reenacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the 'Coma White' video is him showing that he uses it as a metaphor for his life, which he also connects with the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. In the 'Coma White' video portraying a crucified and deified Marilyn Manson (whose very name evokes the essence of Celebritarianism) in the role of JFK, it expresses how Kennedy had become a "second Christ" in the eyes of America when his televised assassination had made him into a martyr to the popular consciousness. In Holy Wood violence is the religion of the masses and the patron saints are dead stars, thus we have Celebritarianism, a religion based on death with rituals that echo those of Roman Catholicism and its Mass, where its citizens devour celebrity as set by precedent of the first celebrity, Jesus Christ, who offered his body and blood to be consumed in the form of bread and wine.
Let's begin by breaking down the first track. The lyrics for all the tracks can be found on Marilyn Manson's official website.
I. ONE ASSASSINATION UNDER GOD
The title plays with the line from the Pledge of Allegiance which in its original form speaks of the United States as being "One Nation Under God," with Manson changing the word "nation" into "assassination". Just like in the album Holy Wood, assassination is evoked through people like John F. Kennedy and John Lennon to bring us into the dystopia known as Holy Wood, where dead stars are the new Christ and saint figures, built off the fact that America has a strange fascination with death and celebrity. As Manson sang in 'Lamb of God', "The camera will make you God," which means that a death captured on camera in Holy Wood deifies you.
[First Verse]
The first verse of 'One Assassination Under God' begins with the lines: "You gave us what we wished for, a few tangled strings attached."
When I listen to the first lines of this song, my mind goes to the song 'Man That You Fear' from Antichrist Superstar, specifically to the line repeated at the end: "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." Marilyn Manson became the rock star he wished to become and dreamed about, and in the process became the man he feared as a child and now the man that everyone else fears, which is why in the music video for the song he is condemned to die as a sort of sacrifice, sort of like a scapegoat who people put the blame on out of fear and superstition. The song also has the line, "I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot escape," which speaks of an attachment to something like a spider web that he cannot escape from being sacrificed.
The imagery of being granted a wish is also interwoven with the imagery of the story of The Wizard of Oz, where a journey is made to meet the wizard in order to be granted what one most wishes, but when you encounter the wizard you "pull back the curtain" and find out the true identity of the one who grants the wishes, that he is not the powerful figure he appears to be, but rather a frightened and insecure man. The wizard still grants the wishes, and the journey comes to an end, but you have a responsibility with the new gift you have been given.
“Pull back the curtain” is an idiom that refers to a moment of revelation when a hidden secret is revealed, or when an illusion is shattered. It's often used to describe a moment when the truth is seen clearly. The phrase can also be used to describe the act of examining one's life and circumstances to see things as they are, and to envision how one would like things to be.
"I won't suffer for your amusement." People of high status or celebrity are often resented, attacked, cut down, or criticized, mostly out of envy. If someone were to feel joy by their fall from grace, they would be experiencing amusement and pleasure towards their suffering.
"There's no more dreams for me to sell." The tenets of the American Dream originate from the Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal", and have an inalienable right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." When you have been given what you wished for, and are now a scapegoat in America, what dreams do you have left?
"I choose my nightmares wisely." With no more dreams, all you have are nightmares, so you better make a wise decision in which nightmare to choose.
"Don't wanna ruin the story, but it doesn't turn out well." In a similar fashion, from an interview with Metal Edge in July 1999, Manson explains the connection between John F. Kennedy and Jesus Christ on Mechanical Animals, saying: "In the end it's a parable about fame and love and what matters to you the most, but I can't say it's got a happy ending. The video for 'Coma White' is adapted from my script, so it will be a bit of a teaser, a hint at what people can expect." And in a 2003 interview, when speaking of his unpublished novel Holy Wood, he explained: "It’s a very traditional orphic tragedy, like Romeo and Juliet. The main character was inspired by a girl in my life, and the ending isn’t a happy one." Sometimes Manson says in interviews about certain albums that the ending, whether its tragic or happy, is up to the listener, but here we are being told right from the beginning that the story doesn't turn out well.
[Pre-Chorus]
"You will always be entertained." No matter what it is that Manson has in store for us, even if it doesn't turn out well, even if he doesn't want to suffer for your amusement, we will always be entertained. As Manson sings in 'The Fall of Adam': "They orchestrated dramatic new scenes for Celebritarian needs." We are in a new cycle, ritualistically repeating what was experienced in the Tryptich, just like a Roman Catholic Mass is repeated over and over again.
[Second Verse]
Skipping over the chorus, let's first look at the second verse of the song.
"Put me inside the animal, stitch it up and shove us off a cliff." The imagery seems to come from the 2019 movie Midsommer, where in one scene a character is sacrificed as a punishment by being stuffed inside a disemboweled bear, and in another earlier scene a sacrifice is made by elderly characters voluntarily jumping off a cliff to their death. Manson here could be alluding to being subject to a similar fate. Thus a sacrifice shoved over a cliff most likely refers to the ancient practice of a ritualistic act where a scapegoat, often an animal, would be symbolically loaded with the sins of a community and then pushed off a cliff to be left to die in a remote location, effectively carrying the community's sins and negativity away with it; this is most commonly associated with the Jewish tradition of the "scapegoat" on Yom Kippur.
"When they tear the wings from all the swine, just monkeys will be left to fly." The first figure of speech of a pig or a swine flying or a pig having wings signifies something that is impossible, so if a swine does have wings then they can only have them in one's imagination where we are free to picture a swine with wings, so torn wings from a swine could be the destruction of the imagination, which is where art is conceived. There is a popular reference to the figure of speech of a pig flying in chapter 9 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The second figure of speech of monkey's flying is perhaps another reference to The Wizard of Oz, where in the book the winged monkeys started as free creatures living in the jungles of the fictional Land of Oz, and though they were carefree they were also mischievous, and we are told that because they pulled a prank which infuriated a princess, she had a sorceress enslave them to obey the Golden Cap and anyone who wears it, and this cap eventually falls into the hands of the Wicked Witch of the West, who uses the monkeys to help her gain territory and power in Oz. What Manson could therefore be saying by these figures of speech is that his imagination and freedom are being desecrated and destroyed.
"Pilot light has flickered out" is the opening line Manson used previously on the audio track called 'Doppelherz' which was featured in his short film of the same name from 2003. Manson has used other lines from this long track on several songs of his other albums, and is here using it again. In the July 2003 issue of Outburn Magazine, Manson explained this track as follows: "It’s a stream of consciousness, absinthe fueled rant that may have ended up being a suicide note the way I was going this particular night, because I had received a bunch of bad news this day. I had everyone leave the room and I just wanted to say what I wanted to say. We created images to go with it. I played it for the record company, and it’s 35 minutes long or something like that. Ten minutes into it, I’d say, 'Yeah, that’s the single,' but there was no music. It was just me talking. Then they would kind of laugh, 'Oh, that’s funny, Manson, but really...' and I’d just say, 'That’s really it.' At a couple points during the making of the record, between my manager and the record company, they wanted to put the whole thing to an end and probably send me to rehab for mental intervention, literally." From this we can infer that a pilot light flickering out is like a star flickering out, when someone has run out of gas or energy and has slowly dimmed till he is now immersed in darkness and despair.
"And all the ashes will be screaming." The ashes could be from the burning sacrifice, the screaming of the ashes could be a sign of injustice for sacrificing someone innocent. However, if we follow the themes of this second verse, my thinking for this line takes me to the artist Edvard Munch, who in 1893 painted his famous The Scream and in 1894 painted a lesser known work called Ashes. The latter indicates that when lovers are consumed by the hot flame of passion their love turns to ashes, while the former illustrates the anxiety and uncertainty of the human condition.
"No one can hear my last words, and no encore once we say goodbye." I assume his last words can't be heard because the ashes are screaming. It also reminds me of the well-known tagline from the 1979 horror movie Alien: “In space no one can hear you scream.” The tagline is a reference to the fact that there is no sound in space because there is no air for sound waves to travel through, so if you want to scream for help in space, no one will hear you and come to help you. It evokes extreme isolation and despair. "Last words" indicate the words spoken before a separation or death, and "goodbye" evokes a separation or death as well. "No encore" is related to a theater or entertainment experience that suddenly comes to an end.
[Chorus]
"Everybody showed up for the execution, but nobody would show their face." This line seems to be related with the 'Four Rusted Horses' line: "Everyone will come to my funeral to make sure that I stay dead." Everyone showing up recalls a time when executions were a public spectacle and part of communal entertainment. Attendance was often encouraged and sometimes mandatory to serve as a lesson to intimidate and deter people from breaking the law. The last formal public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. People attending an execution and not showing their faces is similar to how the Ku Klux Klan operated, who tried to hide their identity and did things they were afraid to be associated with and ashamed to do publicly.
"To shoot you in the back of the head and call it sacrifice." Marilyn Manson's album One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 was released on November 22, 2024. President John F. Kennedy was shot in the back of the head at his assassination on November 22, 1963. The bullet entered the back of Kennedy's head, causing a large exit wound in the front of his skull. The bullet's trajectory left bullet fragments throughout his brain. The JFK assassination as a sacrifice is a reference to the manuscript King Kill 33 by James Shelby Downard and Michael A. Hoffman. The 1993 documentary Kennedy: The Sacrificed King examines the theory also that the assassination of President Kennedy was a masonic ritual killing, hence a sacrifice. It should be noted that John Wilkes Booth also shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head while he was watching the play Our American Cousin.
"They don't deserve to even say your name." Those who are executing the one being sacrificed, with their faces covered, are not worthy to even say the name of their victim. If we were to expand on the previous possible Masonic reference, then this can also be applied to the name of God. One of the most important symbols in Freemasonry is the ineffable, or incommunicable name of God. The Kabbalists believe the name of God is concealed. The name of God is too sacred to utter.
[Bridge]
The word "Assassination" is repeated four times, with the fourth being a loud elongated scream.
An "assassination" is the targeted killing of a public figure for political, religious, or ideological reasons. Assassinations can be used to seize power, start a revolution, or undermine a regime. They can also be used as propaganda to draw media and political attention to a cause. Assassinations can have severe negative consequences, such as weakening society and the economy, and undermining democratic processes.
[Outro]
"Sacrifice. It's not a sacrifice (3X). Not a sacrifice (3X)."
A "sacrifice" is a religious rite where an object is offered to a deity to establish or restore a relationship with the sacred order. Sacrifice can be a way to atone for sin, express gratitude, or draw near to a deity. In ancient Judaism and Greek religion, the most common offering was a burnt offering.
PART 2