The more you cry your ashes turn to mud

It's the nature of the leeches, the virgin's

You've only spent a second of your life

My world is unaffected, there is an exit here

I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me

Shoot here and the world gets smaller

My world is unaffected, there is an exit here

"Each thing i show you is a piece of my death"

In The Reflecting God by Marilyn Manson, he is saying that he

The song uses rhyming, "I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me," in the chorus and bridge leading into the chorus to make it easy to remember and distinguish from the rest of the song. The Reflecting God also uses metaphors, "exit".

"There is a dream inside a dream, I'm wide awake the more I sleep, you'll understand when I'm dead," saying that dreams reveal hidden ideas in our minds that we may not realize consciously, and sleep and wake are unreal in some, but this we cannot understand fully until we enter this other world or until our world changes.

"Saw heaven and hell were lies, when I'm god everybody dies," he realizes that there is no distinct heaven and hell, only control and powerlessness in different worlds; but that we all must move on to some form of another world. If he were god of all, everyone would die because he is not perfect and therefore only the god of himself, with the spirit of good in him. "Scar scar can you feel my power, shoot here and the world gets smaller, one shot and the world gets smaller." Being scarred makes one stronger, gives them power over what they know and experience, but wrongful death dictated by the wrong forces may impact the world more than expected. "Lets jump upon the sharp swords, and cut away our smiles,": in another view lets waste ourselves with our habits, and have no happiness. "Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all," saying our purpose on this world is a test, a short test before death. If we had no hell and did not have to fight its power, we would have no purpose for this life, for we would all move on without needing a test.

The threats of Satan, of evil, defying the truth and interfering with the purpose are shown in the quote "No salvation, No forgiveness". "This is beyond your experience," saying you have never felt what it is like to have an exit in such an entanglement.

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Approximate Word count = 1290
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)