“The Nobodies” is the third and final single released from Holy Wood. The synopsis of the song was inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre where two seniors opened fire on the school, killing fifteen people (themselves included), and injuring twenty-one others.

The song’s title is taken from statements made by Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s assassin, who declared that he “felt like a nobody.”

Manson himself has previously commented on Columbine, as in the dawn of the incident many assumed that he was responsible. Manson later appeared in the 2002 documentary Bowling For Columbine, where he was interviewed by director Michael Moore, famously closing the interview with the quote:

I wouldn’t say anything [to the shooters]. I would listen to what they had to say. And that’s what nobody did.

Despite the aggressive nature of the song, an acoustic version does exist, and appears in the UK release of Holy Wood and the Bowling For Columbine documentary.