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"Man That You Fear" is a promotional-only single from Marilyn Manson's second studio album, Antichrist Superstar, and is the final song on the album. It is a very gentle song, comparable to "Coma White" on Mechanical Animals. On the album version, the final two minutes repeat the phrase "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." A music video was made for the song where Manson plays a trailer park resident picked at random to be stoned to death (a reference to the Shirley Jackson short story The Lottery).
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# Why This Song Deserves Attention This closing track from *Antichrist Superstar* reveals an unexpected dimension of Manson's artistic vision: restraint. Where the album's preceding material embraces theatrical aggression, this song employs quietude and repetition to explore psychological consequence. The contradiction between its gentle instrumental arrangement and the haunting refrain—"many of your dreams will be destroyed"—creates unsettling friction that lingers longer than spectacle could achieve. By positioning this meditation as the album's final statement, Manson suggests that wish-fulfillment itself may constitute a form of destruction. The accompanying video's reference to Jackson's *The Lottery* deepens this inquiry into