PLEASE HELP Song Meaning?

Question

This is the some of the lyrics from the song Disassociative by Marilyn Manson

I would really like your opinion on what the song is about, how you view it, weather its an overall meaning or one line anything will help. ---------------------------------

I can tell you what they say in space
That our earth is too grey
But when the spirit is so digital
The body acts this way
That world was killing me
That world was killing me
Disassociative

The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down

I know

I can never get out of here
I don't want to just float in fear
A dead astronaut in space

Sometimes we walk like we were shot through our heads, my love
We write our song in space like we are already dead and gone
Your world was killing me
Your world was killing me
Disassociative
Your world was killing me
Your world was killing me
Disassociative

I can never get out of here
I don't want to just float in fear
A dead astronaut in space

and in responce to the first comment - wow you loser Marilyn Manson is trying to get a message across to everyone in everything he does, so of course he knows what he means GOSH

Answer 1

It's about the drugs, but it nevertheless can also be just as well applied to other meanings.

To me it's about how screwed up we are. About how our world when seen from space is grey and ugly. The astronaut reference could be how he's so isolated and yet so connected to the world. The world is ugly and mean, so he wants to escape it by going to space, but when he does he sees how bad it is even more. And also b/c he's in space he has no where to go but stick around earth.

It's like a broken home. You try to isolate yourself from it like an astronaut to earth, but you're still stuck with it and "can never get out of here". There's no where to go.

Awesome song
: )

Answer 2

He wrote it while on drugs and it's about what he experienced: numbness, fear, feeling lost in general...and that he couldn't get back to the real world. He hated the real world, so he took these drugs to be free. However, he became frightened and feared he would be lost in the dream-like drug Haze forever,
Check out some of the Marilyn Manson website to see if they can help you. I know I read some interviews with him where he discussed song meanings, but I can't remember where I read them. Wish I could be of more help! Good luck!

Answer 3

Marilyn Manson Disassociative

Answer 4

1. The use of the word "disassociative" is used for "dissociate", which means to break the ties or connection between, to sever association. In psychology, there is a severe mental illness called "dissociation" in which one's ego breaks down and separates from the rest of the psyche. The severe mental disorder called "dissociation" used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder and was described in the film, Three Faces of Eve." The public became quite fascinated with this extremely rare disorder and the idea of becoming separate from from self, emotionally. It's a spooky concept and the word "dissociative" or its variation "disassociation" carry with them that eery sense of horrible emotional lock down / shut down / disconnecting quality, as the word was used for here in this song. But, dissociation is not actually the emotional disturbance occuring in this song, although there is mention of "the nervous systems down". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology)
2. The actual emotional response here is called "angst" in its modern usage, meaning an intense emotional strife caused by a sense of incompleteness or failure to associate with the meanings we operate under. In other words, when events occur that rip us and our meanings asunder, we feel a serious agony that has literally no way out. And, we feel separate, alienated, like a "dead astronaut in space".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angst
3. This song, aside from the feelings of angst and separation and alienation, has a strong wail of entrapment, of feeling like one is in a grey, vacuum, dead, braindead, digital spacesuited box of a trap. Really powerful imagery. As I read this song, I had this overwhelming memory of a time in my youth of having this same feeling. I had just moved from the wilderness in Alaska to a crowded subdivision in a metropolitan area in the lower forty-eight. I was sickened by the "box", the dead trap, the grey concrete, the mindless conformity and my homesick feelings for the forests. I, too, felt that " can never get out of here", as in Manson's song above. Then, an English teacher played THIS song, long ago, on a guitar in class. I thought I'd link it so that you could compare two different songs partly about the same feelings of being in a meaningless trap, although Manson's song is about one's transient and acute feelings, this song is about chronic meaninglessness.
http://www.levittowners.com/history/littleboxes.htm

Answer 5

Marylin Manson is a hyped-up (on heroin) jackass. Incidentally, that's what the song is about. He doesn't relate to the world, like he's an observer, not a participant. He sees life in general from a distance. (mainly 'cause he's either going up on a high, or coming down from one). He's trying to blame his withdrawl from society on the rest of us causing him so much angst.

Like I said, he's a jackass.

Answer 6

"Dissasssociative" is a beautifully morose plea which tells of wanting to be set free from this hellish world.

Answer 7

it's marilyn manson, i don't think even he knows what it means