Marilyn Manson - Putting Holes in Happiness

Putting Holes in Happiness by Marilyn Manson, Music Video and Lyrics

“Putting Holes in Happiness” is Marilyn Manson’s second single from his sixth studio album Eat Me, Drink Me.

Manson has stated in various interviews that select segments of the video were filmed in Germany during the shooting of the “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” video in April.

Marilyn Manson - Putting Holes in Happiness Lyrics

The sky was blonde like her
It was a day to take the child
Out back and shoot it.
I could have buried all my dead
Up in her cemetery head
She had dirty word witchcraft
I was in the deep end of her skin.
Then, it seemed like a one car car wreck
But I knew it was a horrid tragedy.
Ways to make the tiny satisfaction disappear.

Blow out the candles
On all my frankensteins.
At least my death wish will come true.
You taste like Valentine’s and
We cry,
You’re like a birthday.
I should have picked the photograph
It lasted longer than you.

Putting holes in happiness.
We’ll paint the future black
If it needs any color.
My death sentence is a story
Who’ll be digging when you finally let me die?
The romance of our assassination
If you’re Bonnie, I’ll be your Clyde.
But the grass is greener here and
I can see all of your snakes.
You wear your ruins well
Please run away with me to hell.

Released 19 October 2007
Recorded Hollywood, California, 2007
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4.31
Label Interscope Records
Producer Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold