There is a point in One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 where the language of survival finally becomes the language of retaliation. “The Arsonist” is that point. The song is not simply about having survived an attempt to destroy you. It is about what happens afterward, when the person who has been burned decides that the fire did not finish him and that the scars it left behind have become part of his strength. Manson himself described the song as the moment when the narrative of the two chapters “crystallizes into a battle stance,” and, referring to the painting he created for it, said that the “burned scar tissue” had formed into armor. That description gets very close to the heart of the song. The fire has not disappeared. It has changed him. The title is important because Manson does not call the song The Survivor or The Victim . He calls it "The Arsonist." An arsonist deliberately starts a fire, and this changes the entire perspective of the song. The speaker is no...
When Eminem released his 2002 album The Eminem Show , I noticed during " The Kiss (Skit) " there is background music where you can hear the name Marilyn Manson be used in a never released song of his. Yesterday, August 26th 2025, that song was finally released after 23 years. The song is called “Everybody’s Looking At Me” and it can found on the Stans soundtrack. It was produced by Dr. Dre, with the first verse of the track from a 2002 Funkmaster Flex freestyle with Eminem later expanding it into a full song. The lyrics leading up to and mentioning Manson are as follows: Lights, action, cameras flashin' (Shh) Managers, sponsors, concerts, monster mashin' (Yeah) Moshin', everyone thrashin' (Ugh) Laughin', lashin' in arrogant fashion Type who might throw his underwear in the trash and Wipe his ass with the American flag like Marilyn Manson (Haha) You can hear the song on Apple Music here .