“Heart-Shaped Glasses” by Marilyn Manson

Interscope put out "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" as the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, the sixth Marilyn Manson album, which followed on June 5, 2007. Manson wrote the words and produced it, and he has said it was one of those songs he expected the label to hear as a single instantly, so obvious it was almost embarrassing.

It came together simply. He was reading Lolita, and his girlfriend at the time, Evan Rachel Wood, turned up to see him wearing heart-shaped glasses like the ones on the poster for Kubrick's film of the book. What he said to her that day became the chorus, and the idea that a song could come straight out of a moment like that struck him as something he had somehow missed for his entire career.

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