Like he’s one of the family
Charles in charge
Of our days and our nights
Charles in charge
Of our wrongs and our rights
[no idea what's said here, kinda does match the rest of lyrics]

This is a distorted intro from 'Charlie in Charge', some comedy sitcom from 80s. I hope and assume that this sitcom itself doesn't really matter in this case and wouldn't bring much to the table, so I'll just refer to the lyrics as they are.
I see this song/intro more like just a reference to Charles Manson and his family than anything more poetic/artistic. If we try to stretch it a little it kinda shows the contrast between violently american sitcoms full of joy happiness and weird shit, compared to also violently american Charles Manson. Lyrics lowkey match him too a lot. He also in a way was 'in charge' of his cult, of peoples lifes, of what they may see as wrong or right, of their rights(as in right to live etc.) too. Days and nights may be a life and death metaphor.
Anyway - duality! WE WILL SEE THE WORD DUALITY EVERY 2 FUCKING SONGS !!!!

rise up
son of man
new york city son of sam
with a gun in hand
he reapes the women of our land

blood and family
darkness death depravity
keep out of his way
live to lie another day

(with a.44 gun to shoot her down, down)

he was told to kill
dogs and demons gave him will
spirit roaming night
sullen vampire hating light

nobody wants him
he just stares at the world
planning his vengeance
that he will soon unfurl

now the time is here
for son of sam to spread fear
father holy ghost
wicked son who kills the most

nobody wants him
they just turn their heads
nobody helps him
now he has his revenge

gunshots full of lead
fill his victims full of dread
running as fast as they can

son of sam kills again

down, down, down
x2

• Son of Sam as David Berkowitz juxtaposed with Jesus(son of man), savior, salvation. Comparison and showcase of a murderer and 'savior' as equals. It also sort of humanizes David, he is a murderer and a monster, but he also still is a human being. Basically the same motifs will also be in ACSS.
• Here we have a general introduction of out lyrical subject, Berkowitz, he mostly killed women in New York. The use of word 'reaps' suggests objectification of women in the eyes of our character.
• Kinda bullshit, kinda being edgy and building vibe. The line 'live to lie another day' can be connected to 'live and fight another day', in this case instead of fighting and doing something productive, we have lying and killing.
• Just set of references to Berkowitz, his favorite weapon, and that possessed dog that gave him orders.
• I wasn't really able to find anything confirming that David was like particularly lonely or neglected, maybe I didn't dig deep enough, maybe Manson had a different version of events. He kinda did seem incel-like. Anyway, most murderers usually are both lonely and neglected, full of hatered towards those that rejected them(whether directly, or by being part of society, or whatever fits their case).
• Omg second comming of Christ!!!! Son of sam + father + holy spirit!! Evil version of Jesus! Antichrist!

burn the witches burn the witches,
don't take time to sew the stitches
(x2)

hand shake ring sign snake eye bite mine(x2)

I don't need your hate
I decide my fate

burn your bridges burn your bridges
don't take time to sew your stitches
(x2)

levi crowley golden dawn strange same dogma on and on
don't you need some hate, terror terror waits

we don't viscerate
your mind masturbates

burn the witches burn the witches,
don't take time to sew the stitches
(x2)
burn the witches(x6)

no age no pain no grey hair
strange same dogma i don't care

i don't need need your hate
i decide my fate

we don't viscerate
your mind masturbates

don't you need some hate
i decide your fate

burn the witches burn the witches,
don't take time to sew the stitches
(x2)

burn(x2)
burn the witches(x4)

• A call to look for a scapegoat, a distraction, instead of fixing actual problems. It could also be stretched into sewing together your own version of events into something that is actually coherent.
• No fucking idea. Words. But okay, a somewhat safe guess would be looking at these.... artifacts in context of religion and occultism and just gluing it into something.
  Hand – maybe palm reading? That can like predict your fate.
  Handshake – those weird organizations with secret handshakes? I don't know what to do with just shake.
  Ring – option 1: secret circles/inner circles, option 2: both that occult crowd and higher-ranking priests often wear fancy rings symbolizing some kind of authority or affiliation, option 3: maybe magical circles? Salt circles etc.
  This setup we got so far kinda resembles some sort of initiation and entering some organization, some circle/ring, idk signing pact with satan or something.
  Snake - biblically satan and rebelion, occultly knowledge I think? Oruboros and rebirth?
  Bite - Eve biting apple from that snake in Eden??
  Mine - myy.... rebellion? Opposition to that whole ugh religion project?
  Bunch of words. My guess is that it's about entering a religion and it's inner circle, recognizing that rebellion is an option and escaping it, rejecting it and choosing yourself instead. What the fuck am I even doing what the fuck is this. Maybe he just listed words that kind of rhyme. Moving on.
• These fragments are kinda obvious, religions generally focus on hating something and on deciding things for others from above.The idea that one single way of thinking/living/believing is the correct one is, in a way... oppressive? I don't really know what else to call it. Anyway, yay individualism!
• Another fucking list of words. Luckly this time less abstract.
  Levi - Eliphas Levi, occultist from 19th century, wikipedia says he connected christianity and other cool stuff
  Crowley - occultist from 20th century, less christian rambling, very edgy very cult
  Golden dawn - occult/esoteric organization. They have an amazing logo like it looks so cool look it up guys trust me
  After this crazy ass sequence we get a comparison between these religion shaped movements and the religions they rebel against. They're the same dogmatic structures as the ones they were created in opposition to, they're not that far from getting into more extreme hatred and terror themselves.
• How the fuck did he come up with the word viscerate (taking someone's organs out)?? Putting aside that lexical archeology, this part is also somewhat literal: it's not us disemboweling a chosen dogma and pulling things out of it just to nitpick, it's the people who believe in it and spread it who are fruitlessly masturbating over it, doing nothing meaningful besides satisfying their own fantasies.
• All of these dogmas are unrealistic, detached from real life, all the same, yet eternal and constantly remaining exactly the same. Like how many times will they invent the same bullshit again.
• Also this is how bro summarized this song, basically alligns with what I said, just extra complaining about censorship. click to see the whole thing

smiling faces on the wall
i took a walk down the hall
i banged my fist against the door

i tossed a quarter to the whore
the camera flashes in my eyes
i spread the news
she spreads her thighs

red (x2)
in my head
x2

i grabbed her knuckles and I yanked them all
i bent her in half like a Barbie doll
love hate
take this flesh and meditate

i sat there with her we sat there 2 she said to me what should we do
i know some tricks and I'll show them to you your mother won't mind at all if I do to you

the poor little girl (x2)
the poor little girl didn't know what to say
for her mother was out of the house today
today (x2)

red (x2)
in my head
x2

the poor little girl (x2)
the poor little girl didn't know what to say
for her mother was out of the house today
today (x2)

red (x5)
they call me re
red (x2)
in bed the girl

• Our main character is having delusions, bro went insane. Or basing on the rest of the lyrics, we can assume we are in a house, maybe smiling family photos?
• This is kind of a stretch, but maybe it's about how becomind a musician and potentially famous is similar to being a prostitute in a way? I don't know, it doesn't really fit the rest, but I can't think of anything else to connect those flashes to. Maybe camera flashes from the police at a crime scene? That makes a slightly more sense in context.
• It's hard to tell whether this is just a scene of sex or of violence, most likely both at once, and deliberately juxtaposed. The speaker contains anger, violence, and desire all at the same time, they love and hate simultaneously. They acts mechanically, on an innocent doll that he destroys.
• The escalation from earlier pauses briefly. We get a hint that our female victim is underage with mention of her mother and also with that comparison to Barbie. Also the second line is apparently from The Cat in the Hat, I didn't read it so I don't know the context, however it does sound...... peculiar.
• This part is a barely audible sampled recording. I have no idea if I'm even hearing it correctly. It isn't on mansonwiki for some reason. Also, both the wiki and genius versions have "love hate viscerate" earlier on and here viscerate is dropped. I don't know if that's just from some later version or what, but for this cassette I'm listening to the version linked at the beginning of this whole section.
• Here we get an infantilization of the victim, and in a way, also a humanization of her. A sense of guilt? Empathy? A brief moment of clarity in which the lyrical subject realizes what they have done?
• And then we return again, it's unclear whether it's a return to the real world where 'red' is blood or genuine emotions, or if we are back into the rage and whatever the speaker was feeling before.

black sun came changed our name
made our lives this simple stain
drove the children from their chores
handcrafted housewives into whores

society snake it ate our brains
injected poison in our veins
t.v. minds hip-swing grinds
faces cracked and filled with lines

black sun came and changed our name
made our lives this simple stain

introveneous t.v. feeds
bedroom violence all he sees
ride the lightning to the sky
stab the clouds and watch them cry

black sun came and changed our name
made our lives this simple stain

all we do is smite
for what we think is right
sound of mind bereft of sight
denial taking human life

clouds go by children run
gulls do nosedives in the sun
water falling from a spout
into wanting thirsty mouths

black sun came and changed our name
made our lives this simple stain(x3)

all we do is smite
for what we think is right
sound of mind bereft of sight
denial taking human life
all we do is smite
for what we think is right
sound of mind bereft of sight

endless blinding cathode light

• We get our first nazism reference!! Dehumanization! Propaganda! Fascism! TV evil! I really like this song it's probably my favorite on this cassette. I know the lyrics themselves are mostly about television, but it's been 30 years and they're still relevant to media in general, so I'm going to slightly stretch the lyrics.
• The Black Sun is a Nazi symbol; it doesn't really have any other meanings. This part itself says that nazism/fascis/whatever you call it generally leads to the degradation of society. In the context of the rest of the song, the Black Sun can be interpreted as television, propaganda, and the narratives in mainstream media. The loss of individuality, the dumbing down of children, and the objectification of women. Funfact the last 2 lines will be recycled in Wrapped in Plastic!
• SoCiEtY eViL. Bro probably liked Joker 2019. This is a repetition of the previous point, society and the media make people stupid. The line "faces cracked and filled with lies" is more interesting, suggesting that a person has to be broken before these ideas can be forced into them and effectively destroy them.
• Television, like an IV drip, is supposed to keep 'you' alive, keep alive the version of yourself that the media/society wants to convince you to become. In the second line, it's safe to assume that the "he" in question is basically every viewer. His worldview is built solely on what he sees, on what someone else has decided to show him; he's cut off from reality. Fuck knows what's going on with the lightning and the crying clouds, maybe it's saying that all of this is staged? Who knows.
• This is the first time I've seen the words bereft (deprived) and smite (to attack) used outside of minecraft enchants. The propaganda and manufactured image of reality mentioned above lead people to attack whatever they've been taught is evil, to fight for whatever they've been convinced/forced to believe in. It's obvious that this attack is carried out blindly, people are led into it without thinking and don't even try to resist. They refuse to 'open their eyes' and instead only hurt others. The phrase 'sound of mind' may also be a play on 'of sound mind' (mentally sane): this state of blindness is presented as something desirable, the correct state to be in. THIS WHOLE THING WILL ALSO BE RECOOKED IN CYCLOPS!
• This section seems kind of random. We jump to a peaceful natural scenery. A memory of the past? Looking out the window and leaving the house, touching grass? And then we end with the Black Sun again, no hope left.
• Even though cathodes aren't used for normal screens anymore, in a way the light of 80s-90s television is still around, still blinding people. The media still does exactly what it did back then, in a way, even more, thanks to the extreme personalization of every piece of information you see.