30-Year War (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

It's the longest running joke In history To kill the working classes In the name of liberty The lies of Hillsborough The blood of Orgreave All the evasion at the BBC And 30 years of war To darken all our

30-Year War Manic Street Preachers

It's the longest running joke In history To kill the working classes In the name of liberty The lies of Hillsborough The blood of Orgreave All the evasion at the BBC And 30 years of war To darken all our

Let's Go To War (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

All the complications All the deviations All the holy edicts All the broken subjects Lets go to war To feel some pureness and pain Lets go to war We need to go to war again Working class skeletons Lie

This Sullen Welsh Heart (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

just so destroying it's a mocking disease A wasting disease Some times I wake up with love still alive I just want to go to sleep but I can't I close my eyes I can't I close my eyes I can't fight this war

Futurology (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Defenders of the faithWith cruel hearts they makeYou scarred and insecureScared to say a wordWeve all fallen preyTo keep the wolves at bayWell come back one dayWe never really went away went awayOn...

Divine Youth (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Arms around each otherFate falling in the distanceEyes with the look of yesterdayThe weakest in the gangThe last to feel aloneNo luck in your tender bonesAnd I sing to myselfMy civil wars withinThe...

Black Square (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Let us overcome our endless progressArt is never modern for art is eternalWhen every single day youre haunted by perfectionPaintings are never finished but merely abandonedResources divorcesWith un...

Misguided Missile (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

I am a self obsessed foolSelf centred and bruisedI am a misguided missileConsumed with denialI am the strum and drangI am the schaden freudeI was the boy who sangI can still fill your voidStill fil...

Rewind The Film (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Rewind the film againI'd love to see my joy my friendsRewind the film againSo I can fall asleep contentRewind the film once moreTurn back the pages of my postRewind the film once moreI want the wor...

Builder Of Routines (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

I've sealed myself inLaminated all of my skinSellotaped my world in bitsI must embrace paralysisOnly in you do we see ourselvesOnly in you can we see our endSo sick and so tired of being 4 realOnly...

4 Lonely Roads (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

4 lonely roadsThe terror it had flownNever led you home4 lonely roadsGot sunk into my heartThen it fell apartStaring with an idle eyeMeasuring the pain insideDarker hell stood up on highThen disapp...

Show Me The Wonder (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

This is no threatJust an invitationA sense of belongingA sense of inspirationIs heaven a placeWhere nothing ever happensIs it too much to askTo disbelieve in everythingShow me the wonderI have seen...

Running Out Of Fantasy (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

My eco-system is based on hatredMy DNA remains untestedI hate the tyranny of the SunIt always rises always comes downI'm running out of fantasyI don't expect your sympathyI'm old I'm strange I'm co...

Europa Geht Durch Mich (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Europe had a language problemGerman roads, they gave me visionI've seen the future, it's not writtenThis motion makes a modern love songEuropean skies, European desiresEuropean roads, European hope...

(I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Lost on my own in the blazing sunDown through the streets of TokyoFeeling like an alien is so much funThis place somehow feels like a second homeI dream of the Tokyo skylineI miss the emptiness and...

Anthem For A Lost Cause (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

It's a cold and lonely messageAt the end of a songIt invaded hearts and mindsBut they couldn't get alongIt can ask you to rememberIt can ask you for a danceSo it seems that every songNow is just on...

3 Ways To See Despair (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

There are three ways to see despairI've seen them all I'm scared to sayThe three ways are real I've lived through them allThe fourth way is coming so prepare for the fallCan you save someone from t...

Walk Me To The Bridge (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Driving slowly to the bridgeWith nothing left that we can giveWe smile at this ugly worldIt never really suited youOld songs leave long shadowsMakes you shut down all your emotionsMoney needs money...

Sex, Power, Love And Money (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

It reads like a novel within a sighIts cold, its truthful it really never liesNo black no white no left no rightJust four small words that will not be deniedSelf created for self defenceSelf esteem...

The View From Stow Hill (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

How did this town get so oldThe air I breathe feels so heavy and coldAlways caught in betweenThe capital and the ‘other countryAlways caught in betweenThe river and the valleyYou can still see the ...

The Year Of Purification Manic Street Preachers

Detoxification Purification The ravaged corner Cold and embittered Run away - run away as fast as you can From anything that needs discipline The year of purification The year of purification

The Next Jet To Leave Moscow (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

An old jaded commie walking in Red SquareWith rediffusion eyes of yesteryearIm the biggest living hypocrite youll ever see‘cos the market never lies and your conscience is so clearSo take your badg...

Between The Clock And The Bed (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

Im well aware of happinessAnd what it takes to get to itBut the simple struggle of survivalTransforms itself into betrayalBetween the clock and the bedTheres only space and hellWaiting for the tran...

Let's Go To War Manic Street Preachers

All the complications All the deviations All the holy edicts All the broken subjects Lets go to war To feel some pureness and pain Lets go to war We need to go to war again Working class skeletons Lie

(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love Manic Street Preachers

you fight your war, i fight for my life you pay your dues and i'll pay mine it's not war - just the end of love just like before but it's never enough oh, it's never enough you fight your war,

Repeat (Stars and Stripes) Manic Street Preachers

I've seen this happen before This is a message from occupied England British adults, they expect a nuclear war in their lifetime From earliest human existence There appeared to be two fundamental ways

Repeat (Stars and Stripes) (The Bomb Squad - Remastered) Manic Street Preachers

[Sampled] I've seen this happen before This is a message from occupied England British adults expect a nuclear war in our lifetime From earliest human existence there appeared to be two fundamental ways

As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin) (Demo) Manic Street Preachers

As holy as the soil that buries your skinAs holy as the love we'll never giveAs holy as the time that drifted awayI love you so will you please come homeAs holy as the Roman EmpireAs holy as the co...

SCULPTURE OF MAN manic street preachers

SCULPTURE OF MAN War censored, no blood on TV Cheap entertainment Sold like a new deodorant, world war three A Sega dreamland, I'd take a whore to the funeral Sculpture of man Sculpture of

PROLOGUE TO HISTORY manic street preachers

william ryder or my former friend whose now undercover he's gone and i'm no deserter perhaps i'm hard all the same today a poet who can't play guitar tomorrow steve ovett has injured his calf next year

Distant Colours Manic Street Preachers

Tell me what I want to hear A cold war for the mind My distant colours still bleeding A broken promise for the soul Never loving never healing [Verse 2] I no longer know my left from my right Between your

So Why So Sad Manic Street Preachers

eyes fill with tiny tears When Im this still you are my life When Im this still you are my life So at ease in the midnight sky So at ease in the midnight sky But my insides will look like war

DEAD YANKEE DRAWL manic street preachers

DEAD YANKEE DRAWL Bill and Ted and Wayne's World drawl Just another dull fucking bore Vietnam's cool now even Superman's believed Hussein still in power as the media war retreats Suck your honey

Autumnsong Manic Street Preachers

Is it just the same time of year When you think that you dont really care? Now baby, what have you done to your hair?

FIRST REPUBLIC manic street preachers

I hope you have really Guillotined your own head I crown myself, myself a king, And declare a first republic, We wanna play, yes we wanna play, In burnt out, palace ruins You once gave us war

DEMOCRACY COMA manic street preachers

homes but the Belfast wall In Walkman sounds hear Sony control Parliament mother of United Nations Mother of history's dead sun, dead suns DNA of restriction and law Death, famine, spectacle and war

CRUCIFIX KISS manic street preachers

excess though Check your billboard for my tour Listen to Luke sermon six "And if one of the occupation troops forces you to carry his Pack one kilometre then carry it two" Be a tourist in the war

Scream To A Sigh (La Tristesse Durera) Manic Street Preachers

Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I am a relic I am just a petrified cry Wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir The applause nails down my silence La tristesse durera

La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) Manic Street Preachers

Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I am a relic I am just a petrified cry Wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir The applause nails down my silence La tristesse durera

LA TRITESSE DURERA manic street preachers

LA TRITESSE DURERA Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I am a relic I am just a petrified cry Wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir The applause nails down my silence

To Repel Ghosts Manic Street Preachers

has no image to reclaim To repel ghosts To repel ghosts A soul with pain has no image to reclaim To repel ghosts To repel ghosts Build bridges and not roads Make love, make hate, make war

This Sullen Welsh Heart (Feat. Lucy Rose) Manic Street Preachers

just so destroying it's a mocking disease A wasting disease Some times I wake up with love still alive I just want to go to sleep but I can't I close my eyes I can't I close my eyes I can't fight this war

La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sign) Manic Street Preachers

Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I am a relic I am just a petrified cry Wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir The applause nails down my silence La tristesse durera Scream

MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS manic street preachers

MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS Culture sucks down words Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles Organise your safe tribal war Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto Each day living out a lie Life sold

1985 Manic Street Preachers

In 1985, the Civil War failed why?, kept hidden like scars of birth, nature unable to soften the words.

La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) (Live At The Astoria, December 1994) Manic Street Preachers

"Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I am a relic I am just a petrified cry Wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir The applause nails down my silence La tristesse durera Scream

Everlasting - Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers

The gap that grows between our lives The gap our parents never had Stop those thoughts control your mind Replace the things that you despise Oh youre old I hear you say It doesnt mean that I dont c...

BORN TO END manic street preachers

baby, baby I've lost the love to sleep H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying Nagasaki dolls are burning Beg for mercy Pray for war

So Why So Sad manic street preachers

whatever's next comes easily When gentle hands give life to me When your eyes fill with tiny tears When I'm this still you are my life So at ease in the midnight sky But my insides will look like war

Motorcyle Emptiness Manic Street Preachers

Culture sucks down words Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles Organise your safe tribal war Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto Each day living out a lie Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever