You say you want a revolution/ Well you know/ We all want to change the world/ You tell me that it's evolution/ Well you know/ We all want to change the world/ But when you talk about destruction/ Don't you know that you can count me out (in).ĭon't you know it's gonna be all right/ All right, all right/ You say you got a real solution/ Well you know/ We'd all love to see the plan. According to Family member Paul Watkins, 'Before Helter Skelter came along, all Charlie cared about was orgies.' The White Album played a key role in forging Manson's warped ideology. He interpreted many of the songs idiosyncratically, believing, for example, that 'Rocky Raccoon' meant black people and 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' was a song about getting firearms to carry on the revolution rather than-more obviously-a song about sex. Several songs from the White Album crystalized Manson's thinking about a coming revolt by blacks against the white Establishment. Manson believed that the Beatles spoke to him through their lyrics, especially those included in the White Album, released in December 1968. In Revelation 9, the four angels with 'breastplates of fire'-electric guitars-'issued fire and brimstone'-song lyrics. It describes prophets as having 'faces as the faces of men' but with 'the hair of women'-an assumed reference too the long hair of the all-male English group. Revelation 9 also tells of 'locusts'-the Beatles, of course-coming out upon the earth. According to Family members, Manson would most often quote 'the Beatles and the Bible.' The two influences were linked, in that Manson saw the four Beatles members as being the 'four angels' referred to in Revelation 9.

One of the two great influences on the thinking of Charles Manson, along with the Book of Revelation, was the musical group the Beatles.

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