This song reminds me of my younger self when there were two sides to my personality. I hurt so many people in my life, both knowingly and unknowingly, I’m sure. But when you’re young and in self-survival mode, much like a baby rattlesnake, you have no idea how strong your venom is. But it has the power to kill.”Manson added: “This is a song about inner conflict. About regret. About duality… This song is an ode to that idea of: Who are you going to be as a person? Are you going to be a force of harm or are you going to try to do good in the world? A song about the struggle that exists inside ourselves as humans.

It’s mostly to do with the battle with self and how we’re all made up with different facets of our personality: some are good and some are less impressive. And it’s the struggle within oneself to try to be kind, try to be good, try to be the best you can be in your life and not resort to the worst version of yourself. I find, as a human being, I’m often resorting to the worst version of myself HAHAHA!
It was actually inspired by a story which I had read on Eastern European folklore. I’m so annoyed with myself, ‘cause I read the story and I was so taken with the story that I left my station and made a note of it in my computer and then never came back to it, so I don’t know where it was from or who wrote it. It’s a Eastern European fairytale story about the boy who had the wolves inside and this wrestling of good and evil. There are lots of biblical references sprinkled through the record, so this is the classic struggle in yourself, to try and elevate your behaviour. But isn’t it just so easy to be awful? HAHAHAH

I stumbled upon this Eastern European fairy tale about the idea of two wolves that exist in each human being and wrestle with one another. You choose how you’re going to respond to a situation. Even though you think it’s just instinct, it’s actually a split-second choice. ‘Am I going to be an asshole or am I actually going to try and deal with this situation with kindness?’ It’s hard for me not to be an asshole. I want to attack; that’s just my natural state of being. If someone hurts or offends me, or makes me scared, my instinct is to destroy. As I’m getting older, I want to choose kindness instead and I want to try and control the hardcore wolf and let the kind, soft wolf out instead.