Marilyn Manson — SLEPT SO LONG

Описание: SLEPT SO LONG” is a dark, introspective industrial metal track that explores awakening, suppressed violence, and the terror of becoming conscious after years of emotional anesthesia.
Built on slow, crushing rhythms, distorted guitars, dirty synth bass, and controlled, menacing vocals, the song unfolds like a nightmare finally opening its eyes.

This track isn’t about redemption — it’s about realization.
“SLEPT SO LONG” captures the moment when comfort collapses, habits rot, and awareness arrives too late to be gentle. The tension grows quietly, then tightens, creating an atmosphere that feels intimate, hostile, and unavoidable.

Themes explored in this song include:
• emotional sedation and delayed awakening
• identity erosion through comfort
• awareness as violence
• suppressed instinct resurfacing
• the cost of staying asleep too long

Minimal, heavy, and unsettling, this track channels classic shock-rock energy while maintaining a modern industrial edge designed to linger in the listener’s head long after it ends.

Recommended for fans of Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and dark industrial / alternative metal that prioritizes atmosphere, psychology, and slow-burn intensity.

Sleeping was easier.
Waking up changes everything.


Title: SLEPT SO LONG
-- Lyrics --

[Verse 1]
I learned the shape of silence
by living inside it.
Days stacked like anesthetics,
years filed down to fit.

Nothing hurt enough to matter,
nothing loved me enough to stay.
I perfected the art of breathing
without ever being awake.

The mirror kept forgiving me
for things I never tried to be.
I mistook the absence of pain
for something close to peace.

[Verse 2]
I memorized the weight of habits,
how comfort kills politely.
The future kept knocking softly
until it gave up on me.

Every choice felt theoretical,
every risk felt obscene.
I called it self-preservation
while my spine learned how to bend.

Time didn’t steal my body —
it negotiated.
I wasn’t broken, I was paused,
nicely sedated.

[Pre-Chorus]
Something’s moving.
It isn’t kind.

[Chorus]
I slept too long
to wake up clean.
What’s crawling out of me
doesn’t ask what I’ve been.
No forgiveness.
No excuse.
Just a pulse I can’t refuse.

[Verse 3]
I dreamed in borrowed opinions,
borrowed fear, borrowed skin.
Every truth felt counterfeit
until it started bleeding in.

The world didn’t change while I was gone —
it sharpened.
Now everything looks familiar
in the way a weapon does.

I don’t recognize my reflection,
but it recognizes me.
It smiles like it’s been waiting
for permission to breathe.

[Pre-Chorus]
Eyes open.
Too late.

Chorus]
I slept too long
inside the lie.
Now something violent
is learning how to rise.
No mercy.
No proof.
Just a nerve that tells the truth.

[Bridge]
I didn’t wake up angry.
I woke up aware.

That’s worse.

Awareness has teeth.

Final Chorus]
I slept too long
to be saved.
Whatever’s standing here now
wasn’t meant to behave.
No light.
No wrong.
Just a life restarting
raw and conscious.

[Outro]
If this is waking up…
I understand why I stayed asleep.
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