Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)

"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" is the first single and sixth track on Marilyn Manson's 2007 studio album, Eat Me, Drink Me.

Writer: Marilyn Manson
Composer: Tim Skold

Description[]

The video officially premiered on the German website sevenload on May 8, 2007. It contains a 2:47 introduction featuring Manson and girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood kissing maliciously while having simulated sex and scenes of her being covered in blood, overdubbed with an instrumental of the Eat Me, Drink Me track "Evidence". At the 1:35 mark the scene cuts to Manson and Wood driving down a highway in the dark, Wood daring Manson to go faster, to which Manson proclaims "[I'm] going as fast as I can." Manson takes his hands off the wheel to take numerous pictures of Wood, who lifts her leg up to the wheel and holds a knife to her mouth while wearing heart-shaped glasses. The two kiss again, concluding the introduction, and the setting cuts to a club.

On stage, in front of a large crowd, Manson begins singing as Wood watches him intently, apparently masturbating, from the crowd (still wearing the heart-shaped glasses), while numerous photos begin to fall over the audience. Shots of the two driving are flashed throughout the video, as the scene once again changes, this time revealing Manson and Wood in a bed, drenched in what appears to be blood. The two begin kissing vigorously again before the final scene returns to the two of them speeding along the highway. The front of the car erupts in flames, and they continue along, kissing once again. Manson says "Together as one...", and Wood replies "Against all others", before they drive off a cliff and fall, the video ending as they crash.

The video was directed by Marilyn Manson using a 3-D system developed by James Cameron.

Inspiration[]

"When I wrote the song that's the single "Heart-Shaped Glasses" it was one of the songs that I really expected an immediate response from the record label from, in the way like 'of course that's a single' and it was almost embarrassing in the way that I thought it was so obvious. The song was written in a simple way, I was reading the book Lolita and it was something inspired by my current girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood who's obviously much younger than me, but having the sarcasm to make the point of that and showing up to visit me once wearing heart-shaped glasses which is the same as the Kubrick movie poster for the film Lolita and me saying what I say in the chorus of the song. I said that to her and I suddenly realized I should really write a song about that and it never occurred to me in my entire career, my entire life that, that's how you should write songs. It should be the part of your personality that you might feel guarded or too secret to put out the rest of the world." - Marilyn Manson, BBC Radio One

Allegation[]

Shortly after the video was made in 2007, Evan Rachel Wood stated in an interview that the sex act had not been real. In 2022, she said she had lied when making that statement, and alleged the sex in the video had been real and non-consensual, and that she had been "fed" absinthe prior to its filming. She also claimed Manson had instructed her to deny the sex was real to the media, and that she had complied due to fear. Manson denied the claim, with his lawyer saying the "simulated" sex scene was observed by multiple witnesses and "took several hours to shoot with multiple takes using different angles and several long breaks in between camera setups." He also said Wood was "not only fully coherent and engaged during the three-day shoot but also heavily involved in weeks of pre-production planning and days of post-production editing of the final cut."

Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)[]

Lyrics[]

She reminds me of the one in school
When I was cutting
She was dressed in white
And I couldn't take my eyes off her
But that's not what I took off that night

She'll never cover up
What we did with her dress, no
She said,
"Kiss me, it'll heal
But it won't forget.
Kiss me, it'll heal
But it won't forget."

And I don't mind you keeping me
On pins and needles
If I could stick to you
And you stick me too

Don't break
Don't break my heart
And I won't break your heart-shaped glasses
Little girl, little girl
You should close your eyes
That blue is getting me high

Don't break
Don't break my heart
And I won't break your heart-shaped glasses
Little girl, little girl
You should close your eyes
That blue is getting me high
And making me low
That blue is getting me high
And making me low

She reminds me of a one I knew
That cut up the negatives of my life
I couldn't take my hands off her
She wouldn't let me be anywhere but inside

And I don't mind you keeping me
On pins and needles
If I could stick to you
And you stick me too

Just don't break
Don't break my heart
And I won't break your heart-shaped glasses
Little girl, little girl
You should close your eyes
That blue is getting me high

Don't break
Don't break my heart
And I won't break your heart-shaped glasses
Little girl, little girl
You should close your eyes
That blue is getting me high
And making me low

She'll never cover up
What we did with her dress, no
She said,
"Kiss me, it'll heal
But it won't forget.
Kiss me, it'll heal
But it won't forget."

I don't mind you keeping me
On pins and needles
If I could stick to you
And you stick me too

Don't break
Don't break my heart
And I won't break your heart-shaped glasses
Little girl, little girl
You should close your eyes
That blue is getting me high

Don't break
Don't break my heart
And I won't break your heart-shaped glasses
Little girl, little girl
You should close your eyes
That blue is getting me high
And making me low