Manic Street Preachers (often referred to as the Manics) are an alternative rock band from Blackwood Blackwood, Caerphilly , Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore Sean Moore (musician) (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band is part of the Cardiff music scene, most prominently during the 1990s.
The band were originally a quartet: lyricist... [read more] - A Design For Life
Libraries gave us powerThen work came and made us freeWhat price now for a shallow piece of dignityI wish I had a bottleRight here in my dirty face to wear the scars To show from where I cameWe don't talk about love...
- Enola/Alone
The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on the tv100% risk of stepping outsideEvery second too precious to tryMy heart aches for enolaFrom my birth a rellik a killerBut all I want to do is liveNo matter how miserable it...
- Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
20 ft. high on Blackpool promenadeFake royalty second hand sequin facadeLimited face paint and dyed black quiffOverweight and out of date(repeat)Oh wellAmerican trilogy in Lancashire potteryAmerican trilogy in...
- Interiors (Song For Willem De Kooning)
Who sees the interiors like young Willem once didYour beautiful triangle of distortionNow you seem to forget it so muchWho sees the interiors like young Willem once didSay you can remember say where is the tomorrowSay...
- No Surface All Feeling
Embarrassed, possessed and so uncivilised Just take a look at the whites of my eyes See me now and I will apologise For me for you we knew they were lies It makes me angry ashamed but really alive It may have worked...
- Further Away
The further away I get from youThe harder it gets for everyone else, for everyone elseThe happier I am when I'm with youThe harder it gets when I am alone, when I am aloneThe harder I try to learn something from...
- Australia
I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm illMy cheeks are turning yellowI think I'll take another pillPraying for the wave to come nowIt must be for the fifteenth timeI've been here for much too longThis is...
- Kevin Carter
Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer PrizeTribal scars in TechnicolorBang bang club AK 47 hourKevin CarterHi Time magazine hi Pulitzer PrizeVulture stalked white piped lie foreverWasted your life in black and whiteKevin...
- The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
There are no sunsets just silenceYou could see that she was true and faithlessBut see through the future and forget all the liesBlack out the words for the blind have eyesI am the girl who wanted to be GodI am the...
- Removables
Conscience binds you in chainsTrail by stone hammer and nailsNo-one made the holes but meMisery mourns to be devouredKilled God blood soiled unclean againKilled God blood soiled skin dead againAgain everywhere...
- Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
You have your very own numberThey dress your cage in its natureOnce you roared now you just grunt lamePace around pathetic pound gamesWanna get out won't miss you sensaroundTo carry your own dead to swing your tyre...
- Everything Must Go
Shed some skin for the fear withinIs starting to hurt me with everythingFreed from the memoryEscape from our history, historyAnd I just hope that you can forgive usBut everything must goAnd if you need an...
- The Love Of Richard Nixon
The world on your shouldersThe love of your motherThe fear of the futureThe best years behind youThe world is getting olderThe times they fall behind youThe need it still grows strongerThe best years never found...
- Fragments
Strung out eyes as cold as worshipTwo minutes silence in a century of screamsTiny massive hands, emphatic lonely soulSkin against skin and blood against bloodThis is the place where peace existsThis is the place where...
- Empty Souls
Empty souls will leave their homes To find a place where they're alone Rattling memories and hollow bones Leaves a taste so bitter and cold For empty souls will stand alone Shivering like black-eyed dogs Waiting to be...
- A Song For Departure
And all the masks I carry on my faceFor you, for anotherSome calm and then some graceBut once within a long and broken nightA face like mine, bereft of dreams and whiteThis is a song, this is a songA song for a...
- Emily
Emily, Emily your gift to meEmily, a modern sense of beautyEmily, as precious as your memoryA simple word called libertyThe relics, the ghosts, all down so many roadsThe relics, the ghosts, all down so many...
- To Repel Ghosts
When the disappearing beginsThe ghosts we kept withinCan break free from insideAnd untie our blindfold eyesTo repel ghostsTo repel ghosts...So when the ghosts find youBe careful but be gracefulFor all will be...
- Glasnost
When did life get so, get so complicatedWhen did time start, start acceleratingMake life slowerStop life growingIf we can still fall in loveIf we can still fall in loveEmbrace with us - make your own glasnostAnd in...
- I Live To Fall Asleep
I live to fall asleepIt's when I stop the hateI never want to dreamIt infiltrates beautyI live to fall asleepRegenerate and sinSkin so tense gives inI've lived enough to killWhen did you become another distant...
- Cardiff Afterlife
If the love between us has faded awayLeft in the rain, scratching at the stainsThe paralysed futureThe past sideways scrawlI must give up on thisIt makes no sense at allMakes no sense at allIn the Cardiff afterlifeIn...
- Solitude Sometimes Is
Solitude sometimes isThe place that I would like to liveSolitude sometimes isWhen nothing really seems to fitIf black were truly black not greyIt might provide some depth to prayTo black out all the worlds of menAnd...
- 1985
In 1985, I placed a bet and liedLosing all that I hadAt least with all my heart intactIn 1985, Orwell was proved rightTorville and Dean's boleroRedundant as a sad welsh chapelIn 1985, in 1985So God is dead, like...
- Always/Never
Always, never on my mindAlways, always out of timeAlways, always letting someone downAlways, always wanting moreAlways, always stand-aloneAlways, always getting something wrongLonging for, it's been a long time...
- Intravenous Agnostic
Into a vein exhibit the derelictA secular mosaic distracted at birthA Cubist abstraction let it live foreverNarcissism so lonely so live by the seaWhat a messCosmetic - polemicDistinguished by relicsDestructive...
- Wattsville
I got the Wattsville bluesI got nothing to lose now babyI got the Wattsville bluesI got nothing to lose now babyTime is going onTime is leaving meI got the Wattsville bluesI got the Wattsville blues now babyBut I...
- The Year Of Purification
DetoxificationPurificationThe ravaged cornerCold and embitteredRun away - run away as fast as you canFrom anything that needs disciplineThe year of purificationThe year of purificationDeificationDepopulationCrescendo...
- Epicentre
We use ourselves like politiciansFor all the money and indecision - indecisionIndecisionFeels like there's no escapeExcept through my hateSecond hand germ warfareDenied oxygen everywhereLike a stunned fox - with...
- Let Robeson Sing
Where are you now?Broken up or still around?The CIA says you're a guilty manWill we see the likes of you again?Can anyone make a difference anymore?Can anyone write a protest song?Pinky lefty revolutionaryBurnt at the...
- Baby Elian
Blockades won't win you more votesA Cuban adjustment actOffer the world a dreamDress it up - it's blackmailInternal matter they sayFor two million dollars a dayMaybe a future in filmBut Cuban boxers still winKidnapped...
- His Last Painting
The nothing in meThe apostle in meNo interpretationFor the heart of meI can't see right from my wrongI've loved so much that I can't go onIt's not my life anymoreDon't speak the truth anymoreAll of the hope and the...
- Found That Soul
Show me a wonderYou can be sure ofI exist in a placeA self-made vacuumBut still stranded hereWith all the scumSo clean, So lostSo beautifulBut I found that soulYeah I found that homeBut I found that soulBut I found...
- The Masses Against The Classes
THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT PROPERTY FROM THE MAJORITYAND SO IT REMAINS1, 2, 3, 4 Hello it's us again We're still so in love with you And yes we mean...
- Ocean Spray
"Me totemo utsukushii desu neTotemo utsukushii me wa shitemasu"It's easy to see, it's easy to seeTo see only white where colour should beIt's easy to feel, it's easy to feelBut it's not good enough, even though it's...
- The Convalescent
My bedroom wall recalls what's in my headA collage constructed and constantly fedGoya mixes Picasso but it's hardly SpainLook through the window, pissing down with rainLovely labradors outnumber musiciansBonnie and...
- My Guernica
I'm small and I'm tiredI'm blurred to bits and wiredI'm nothing in this universeNothing but pieces of dustAppearing in more repeatsThe mirror man has seen defeatHide away, be old and greyAlfred J Prufrock would be...
- So Why So Sad
Things get clear when I feel freeWhen whatever's next comes easilyWhen gentle hands give life to meWhen your eyes fill with tiny tearsWhen I'm this still you are my lifeWhen I'm this still you are my lifeSo at ease in...
- Miss Europa Disco Dancer
Miss Europa disco dancerFeel the drug of your personaMiss Europa disco dancerI'm in heaven when I see youMiss Europa disco dancerFavourite son and favourite daughterMiss Europa disco dancerI suck suck up all of your...
- Dead Martyrs
Dead martyrsAll stigmartysDead heroesFor fear of zeroesDead martyrsAlways take it furtherDead heroesKnow no fearLiving for some happinessFind nothing that satisfiesHad a beginning but it got no endGot no futureJust...
- Royal Correspondent
You've been this way since schoolDysfunctional, translucentRoyalty on your wallSo desperately mundaneThey're inbred baby just like youBut you'd love the chance to eat their foodEven though it has been chewedRoyal...
- Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
Liberty, sweet libertyCharitable respectabilityThen pacifism killed us allFor all the tourists on the Berlin wallSo we protest about human rightsWorship obesity as our birthrightBut freedom of speech won't feed my...
- Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
Always feeling torn and slowLove song cull destroy poemMisery and trauma making loveBest go shoot the *** dovesThe past is so beautifulThe future like a corpse in snowI think it's all the *** sameIt's a life...
- Repeat
Repeat After Me *** Queen and Country Repeat After Me Death Sentence Heritage Repeat After Me Death Camp Palace Useless Generation Dumb Flag Scum Useless Generation Dumb Flag Scum Repeat After Me *** Queen and...
- You Love Us
We are not your sinners Our voices are for real We realised and won't be mourned We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms We won't die of devotion Understand we can never belong Thrown some acid on the Mona-Lisa's face...
- Love's Sweet Exile
Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into images of state coercion Classified machines die misunderstood City reflections pour out misery We don't count cos we hate Raindown alienation Leave this country...
- Damn Dog
Two, three, fourI can lick your faceI can bite it tooOoh my teeths got rabiesI'm gonna give it to youFeed me, feed meCan't you hear me howlFeed meCos I'm a damned dog nowGotta taste for fleshGotta taste for dangerSo I...
- Methadone Pretty
am nothing and should be everythingYou're methadone pretty, surrender in pityIntentional destruction germEats your thoughts and make you happyThey wanna piece of your skinPump it safer than, than a suicideMethadone...
- Born To End
Get some pain and I feel alive - born to end Close my eyes overdose on hell - born to end Get run over by no direction - born to end Breathing dead and I'm born to end - born to end Fall to the floor my baby, baby I...
- Little Baby Nothing
No one likes looking at you Your lack of ego offends male mentality They need your innocence To steal vacant love and to destroy Your beauty and virginity used like toys My mind is dead, everybody loves me Wants a...
- So Dead
Learn to sleep through misery Never gonna wake feeling free No one ***s as good as Marilyn Plastic surgery sure cures your sins You need a fix I'm your prostitute Repression says depravity's cute I'll feed you lines...
- Motorcycle Emptiness
Culture sucks down wordsItemise loathing and feed yourself smilesOrganise your safe tribal warHurt maim kill and enslave the ghettoEach day living out a lieLife sold cheaply forever, ever, everUnder neon loneliness...
- Slash N' Burn
You need your stars, even killers have prestigeAccess to a living you will not see24 boredom, I'm convicted instantlyGorgeous poverty of created needsSlash and burnKill to liveKill for kicks3rd world to the 1stKill to...
- Stay Beautiful
Find your faith in your security All broken up at seventeen Jam your brain with broken heroes Love your masks and adore your failure We're a mess of eyeliner and spraypaint D.I.Y. destruction on chanel chic Deny your...
- Tennessee
Your dream can never earn enough Ultimate nihilistic love Tennessee nights just zip-code love Always believe the comfort of strangers Tennessee eyes graffiti once blue Media sells a trace of hate Our epitaph reads...
- Nat West - Berclays - Midlands - Lloyds
Economic forecasts soothe our dereliction Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine Carried away with useless advertising dreams Blinding children, life as autonotomes NatWest, NatWest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds...
- Spectators Of Suicide
Obedience to the law is free desireUnder curfew from neon barbed wireWasting away this country, wearing like a born deadFree heroin shots for those who never begSpectators of suicideExploding in society's eyeDemocracy...
- Another Invented Disease
Drugs come out of boredom babe U.N. exports it everyday Their armies feed the ghetto lame Government approve it just the same Daylight bores the sunshine out of me I need to feel alone amongst the weeds Daylight bores...
- Crucifix Kiss
so mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating so there so nowhere so hurtingwe fall between indifference rejection and the whole *** wallwe fallChristin me fuhrer nazarineBelieve in tomorrow but not todayGive me...
- Of Walking Abortion
Life is lead weights, pendulum diedPure or lost, spectator or crucifiedRecognised truth acedia's blackest holeJunkies winos whores the nation's moral suicideLoser - liar - fake - phoneyNo-one cares, everyone is...
- Faster
I hate purity,Hate goodness,I dont want virtue to exist anywhere,I want everyone corruptI am an architect,They call me a butcher,I am a pioneer,They call me primitive,I am purity, They call me perverted,Holding you...
- P.C.P.
Teacher starve your child, P.C. approvedAs long as the right words are usedSystemised atrocity ignoredAs long as bilingual signs on viewTen foot sign in Oxford StreetBe pure - be vigilant - behaveGrey not neon, grey...
- Revol
Mr. Lenin - awaken the boyMr. Stalin - bi***ual epochKruschev - self love in his mirrorsBrezhnev - married into group ***Gorbachev - celibate self importanceYeltsin - failure is his own impotenceRevol - revolRevol -...
- Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
Images of perfection, suntan and napalmGrenada - Haiti - Poland - NicaraguaWho shall we choose for our moralityI'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedyBig Mac - smack - Phoenix R - please smile y'allCuba, Mexico...
- Yes
For sale? Dumb cunt's same dumb questionsVirgins? Listen, all virgins are liars honeyAnd I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoyDulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it toAnd in these...
- This Is Yesterday
Do not listen to a word I sayJust listen to what I can keep silentThe only way to gain approvalIs by exploiting the very thing that cheapens meAnd I stare at the skyAnd it leaves me blindI close my eyesAnd this is...
- The Intense Humming Of Evil
You were what you wereClean cut, unbecomingRecreation for the massesYou always mistook fists for flowersWelcome welcome soldier smilingFuneral march for agony's last edge6 million screaming soulsMaybe misery - maybe...
- Mausoleum
Wherever you go I will be carcassWhatever you see will be rotting fleshHumanity recovered glittering etiquetteAnswers her crimes with Mausoleum rentRegained your self-controlAnd regained your self-esteemAnd blind your...
- 4st 7lbs
"I eat too much to die, and not enough to stay alive. I'm sitting in the middle waiting."Days since I last pissedCheeks sunken and despairedSo gorgeous sunk to six stoneLose my only remaining homeSee my third rib...
- Archives Of Pain
If hospitals cureThen prisons must bring their painDon't be ashamed to slaughterThe centre of humanity is crueltyThere is never redemptionAny fool can regret yesterdayNail it to the House of LordsYou will be buried in...
- From Despair To Where
From Despair To WhereManic Street PreachersI write this alone on my bedI've poisoned every room in my houseThe place is quiet and so alonePretend there's something worth waiting for.There's nothing nice in my headThe...
- Design For Life
A Design For LifeManic Street PreachersLibraries gave us powerThen work came and made us freeWhat price now for a shallow piece of dignity.I wish I had a bottleRight here in my dirty face to wear the scarsTo show from...
- There By The Grace Of God
And all the drugs in the worldCan't save us from ourselvesVictims with the saddest heartsPassing by the grace of GodThere by the grace of GodWith grace we will sufferWith grace we shall recoverThere by the grace of...
- If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be NextManic Street PreachersThe future teaches you to be aloneThe present to be afraid and cold"So if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists."Bullets for your brain...
- Motown Junk
Never ever wanted to be with you,The only thing you gave me was the boredom I suffocated in,Adrift in cheap towns don't stop the rain,Numbed out in piss towns,Just want to dig their gravesMotown, Motown JunkI laughed...
- Die In The Summertime
Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it healsColour my hair but the dye grows outI can't seem to stay a fixed idealChildhood pictures redeem, clean and so sereneSee myself without ruining linesWhole days throwing...
- Facing Page: Top Left
Here I am, rise and shineWeighed down of course I smileHere is hospitality skin care tonesClean flesh and lines tainted UV protectionThis beauty here dipping neophobiaHere I am rise and shineWeighed down of course I...
- This Joke Sport Severed
Loose and guilty and whippedSterility persecutes and I have plentyBruised and nailed and quitMerciful and mourned and meekJealousy sows rejection with a kissIn silken palms that tear bone from skinThis joke sport...
- Me And Stephen Hawking
Herman the Bull and Tracey the sheepTransgenic milk containing human proteinThe bacteria cheaper than baby foodAttention todayToday it's a cow, tomorrow it's youAfrican Punch and Judy show at half the priceA hundred...
- Doors Closing Slowly
Realise how lonely this isSelf defeating, o *** yehDrowned in love and false kissesA gathering of no meaningThat shadow is a cross okayJudgement must willing todaySilence is not sacrificeCrucifixion is the easy...
- Marlon J.D.
He stood like a statueAs he was beaten across the faceWith a horse whipWhere the wounds already existA well-oiled rifleAnd never lonely, Marlon JDIf you want to count down, countdownGive him some dignitySo see, so see...
- Virginia State Epileptic Colony
They sit around tables rendered dumbColoured sticks of chalk are passed aroundToday the doctors allow the illusion of choiceTomorrow the necks split, there is no voiceDraw a perfect circle, sleep foetus-likeSix chalk...
- Pretension / Repulsion
Sickened and housed street death's burnedBlacked, lived, compelled and coldClosed down and swallowed formed and regainedBlacked, curt, gloat and discernedShot from shotThe androgyny failsOdalisque by IngresYet your...
- William's Last Words
Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew?I'll be watching over youIsn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew?I'll be watching over youGoodnight my sweetheartUntil we leave tonightHold me in your armsWish me...
- Journal For Plague Lovers
Pretend prayerPretend careMakes everything seem so fairThese perfect abattoirsThese perfect actorsThese perfect abattoirsOnly a god can bruiseOnly a god can sootheOnly a god reserves the rightTo forgive those that...
- Peeled Apples
The more I see, the less I scream,The figure eight inside out is infinityThe *** light bulb is always wrongThey make your brain completeThen they blow it to kingdom comeRiderless horses, Noam Chomsky's...
- All Is Vanity
Haven't shaved for daysKeeps the appearance of delayThe luxury of one more dyePretend humility the ugly lieI would prefer no choiceOne bread one milk one food that's allI'm confused I only want one truthI really don't...
- Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Tonight we begTonight we beg the questionIf a married manA married man begs a CatholicAnd his wife dies without knowingDoes it make him unfaithful people?Oh mummy, what's a *** pistol?(repeat 3x)Tonight we begTonight...
- She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
She'd walk on broken glass for loveShe thought burnt skin would please her loverTo keep love alive and lust besideKind people should never be treated like...Empty arms and aching heartThe love she sought through...
- La Tristesse Durera
Life has been unfaithfulAnd it all promised so so muchI am a relicI am just a petrified cryWheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenirThe applause nails down my silenceLa Tristesse DureraScream to a sigh, to a sighLa...
- Sleepflower
Morning always seems too stale to justifyLament blossoms, hours minutes of our livesBroken thoughts run through your empty mindAt least a beaten dog knows how to lieI feel like I'm missing pieces of sleepA memory...
- Yourself
Your ritual everydayA mild shower soak in aftershaveBest clothes do your bestLook in the mirror go onBelittle yourself yourself yourselfBelittle yourself yourself yourselfYou go on day after dayDreaming on a lieThat...
- Life Becoming A Landslide
Childbirth tears upon her muscleVery first second a screaming iconBabies in time barely even recogniseWords that once stroked now bruising tired lipsMy idea of love comes fromA childhood glimpse of ***graphyThough...
- Nobody Loved You
What's your story babyNo control of what I am sayingWinter leaves still make me believeNo vendettas, just a cherry blossom treeNever had the chance to take you homeNow there's no reason just another tomorrowYou keep...
- The Everlasting
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 you're old I hear you say It Doesn't mean that I don't careI don't...
- You're Tender And You're Tired
You're so fragile tonightBeen up hurting all nightIt's not trivial like they thinkYes you're desperate and you're hurtThought about it so many timesToo afraid to open your eyesTo see the sadness that's insideJust sit...
- S.Y.M.M.
The subtext of this songI've thought about it for so longBut it's really not the sort of thingThat people want to hear us singThe context of this songWell I could go on and onBut it's still unfashionableTo believe in...
- Be Natural
Been natural for once in my lifeNow I'll have to swallow some prideKnow that I should never give adviceBut it's too late now to say goodbyeBe natural don't want any friendsBe natural come on and hit me againBe natural...
- Ready For Drowning
Here's a true storySaid someone to me yesterdaySaid he'd heard it in a taxiMust have had him at my mercyDrown that poor thing put it out of its miseryCondemn it to its future deny its history - deny its historySo...
- Tsunami
For you my dear sister Holding onto me forever Disco dancing with the rapists Your only crime is silence Can't work at this anymore Can't move I want to stay at home Tied up to all these crutches Never far from your...
- You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Drinking - water to stay thinOr is it to purifyI love you all the sameBut there's no - no real truce with my furyYou don't have to believe meI love you all the sameBut you stole the sun from my heartYou stole the sun...
- My Little Empire
My little empire has risen and it's setMy little empire is as good as it can getMy little empire is coming aroundMy little empire it don't make a soundMy royalty it does not existIt is extinct for the eye to seeMy...
- I'm Not Working
Petrified for the millionth timeSlowly my soul evaporatesNo parachutes no dismal cloudsJust this *** spaceI know what's coming I'm not workingI know what's coming I'm not workingSweating out intelligenceLike I...
- Born A Girl
Do I look good for you tonightWill you accuse me as I hideBehind these layers of disguiseIn the mirrors of my own happinessI've loved the freedom of being insideNeed a new start and a different timeSomething grows in...
- Black Dog On My Shoulder
There's a black dog on my shoulder againLicking my neck and saying she's my friendSolitude the one thing that I really missGuess my life is a compromiseThere's a black dog on my shoulder againI'm playing with it but...
- Sepia
A framed adolescence steeped in the history of you,Stopping the summer once for you, Experience is lost on me I am melancholia eternally, But I still smile so stupidly,For the first time ever I don't understand my...
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