Manic Street Preachers

Spend your days just working on shopping Dependin' on how much your look is in Spend your nightlife table hopping And trying to keep that bag a bones in trim I don't mind not feelin' immortal Cause it ain't all that as far as I can tell I don't mind not...

I'm tired of my life but my head's all right I got the fever of a man that I know I can feel it comin' in the air tonight And I know I'm not alone Sweatin' out my soul on the radio My heart is laughing back at me I can see it comin' but I just don't kno...

Lost on my own in the blazing sun Down through the streets of Tokyo Feeling like an alien is so much fun This place somehow feels like a second home I dream of the Tokyo skyline I miss the emptiness and the silence I long for the non-communication Everything...

To feel forgiveness, you gotta forgive Do you see the stars or the darkness begin? You fight your war, I fought 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...

You're never gonna get along hanging around And thinking out loud You're never gonna get it on And be someone stuck in that crowd So you call out for feelings you hope that don't never exist But don't be ashamed of your bones and your blisters So come on...

In 1985 I placed a bet and lied Losing all that I had At least with all my heart intact In 1985 Orwell was proved right Torvill and Dean's Bolero Redundant as a sad Welsh chapel In 1985 In 1985 So God is dead like Nietzsche said Superstition is all we have le...

There are three ways to see despair I've seen them all, I'm scared to say The three ways are real I've lived through them all The fourth way is coming, so prepare for the fall Can you save someone from the hidden depths Of a darkened soul with no hope left An...

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 class Black propaganda, lies and mistrust Se...

4 lonely roads The terror it had flown Never led you home 4 lonely roads Got sunk into my heart Then it fell apart Staring with an idle eye Measuring the pain inside Darker hell stood up on high Then disappeared without reply 4 lonely roads I'm trapped insi...

Days since I last pissed Cheeks sunken and despaired So gorgeous sunk to six stone Lose my only remaining home See my third rib appear A week later all my flesh disappears Stretching taut, cling-film on bone I'm getting better Karen says I've reached my targ...

We've finally found a way To consume boredom every day We've all become our personal gods We've all become so sad and lost So sad So sad and lost A billion balconies facing the sun A billion faces turned to their screens The perfect answer to camouflage our s...

Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity I wish I had a bottle Right here in my dirty face to wear the scars To show from where I came We don't talk about love We only want to get drunk And we are...

It’s Here It’s a Secret – A Secret Society It’s Here It’s a Secret – A Secret Society Its gone beyond me – beyond my vulnerability Science fiction for the masses with no reality Ban all this religion wipe it out and start again Democracy the highest state tha...

And all the masks I carry on my face For you for another some calm and some grace But once within a long and broken night A face like mine bereft of dreams and white This is a song (This is a song) A song for a departure This is a song This is a song (This is...

Memories are all we leave Fragments of lost melancholy Traces of a generation gone Tiny pieces of broken glass Sh-sh-sh-shining like golden glitter Looking up at the dying stars Unloved by all who pass this way I never really got a chance to say Like...

Alien [?] failures, no one to save us Fractured moments, the gaps are growing The dying decades, the first refusal Total withdrawal, silence for all The last generation by polarization Solitary youth, this laziness finds its truth I will be your weakne...

Primary prole mp judge general policeman Figureheads sucked in as just another token To sell your culture and tolerate another Annihilation in the pursuit of self-love corruption Vision of dead desire - tune in reception control Vision of dead desire - underc...

Praying that youll fall down soon (fall soon) And your guiltless sex will break in two (break in two) We brought you sensitivity and you never knew No we aint going down No we aint going down I get down to nothing and jumbled up again (up again) Praying your...

The people will know it's not the time to change it It's just for now but not for good It's my feelings that I think you're draining Take them now if you think you should You want something for nothing The higher that you climb the longer you fall Maybe...

Show me who you are I'll show you what you love I'll give you half the world if that's enough Let me take you down Let me hear you smile Let me rest my head here for a while In the end we'll leave it all behind Because the love I think I'm tryin' to f...

Haven't shaved for days Keeps the appearance of delay The luxury of one more dye Pretend humility the ugly lie I would prefer no choice One bread one milk one food that's all I'm confused I only want one truth I really don't mind being lied to It's not what's...

I'm no longer preaching to the converted That congregation has long ago deserted And we discovered was even more despair But we learned how to cope, we learnt now not to care And the sun will still keep rising Always deflecting, always disguising Was there e...

Love, love, love Love, love, love Love, love, love There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but you can learn how the play the game It's easy There's nothing you can make that can't me m...

Always, never on my mind Always, always out of time Always, always letting someone down Always, always wanting more Always, always stand-alone Always, always getting something wrong Longing for, it's been a long time longing for To carry the sky away Always,...

Okey dokey (spoken) Won't you take me Won't you take me to the edge of night And make me Won't you make me walk into the light And there'll be no eyes No eyes that seen such beauty will lose their sight And there'll be no lies No lies that you can tel...

The beauty and the darkness of your eyes Feel the beauty kept locked inside You were the avatar, the conduit The hardest thing you ever did No, not here to be loved Believed in the power and in your blood A perfect echoes of your youth Like an anorexi...

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 the sunshine out of me I need to feel, I...

And the scars you wore Are just mirrors for ourselves Disfigured like a landscape Through the heart of our lives As our bodies fall apart Left to the dust and bones All we have is the fear We'll never carry you home So hold all the reflections Baby...

It's a cold and lonely message At the end of a song It invaded hearts and minds But they couldn't get along It can ask you to remember It can ask you for a dance So it seems that every song Now is just one last chance Take this, it's yours An anthem for a los...

Sometimes I barely even recognise I never felt the need to justify And on and on and on it goes I'm never tempted to ask or include I'm always happier to self-delude And on and on and on it goes Antisocialmanifesto We all love our imperfection Antiso...

If hospitals cure Then prisons must bring their pain Do not be ashamed to slaughter The centre of humanity is cruelty There is never redemption Any fool can regret yesterday Nail it to the house of lords You will be buried in the same box as a killer, as a kil...

If piss is yellow, then life must be grey How come they smile when we throw it away And if it is a colour than it must be sin And you want to apologise but keep it in Why worship a God when a mother is a saint Why worship stone They give life and take it back...

As holy as the soil that buries your skin As holy as the love we'll never give As holy as the time that drifted away I love you so will you please come home As holy as the Roman Empire As holy as the coffee you made for us As holy as those nights we wal...

I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm ill My cheeks are turning yellow I think I'll take another pill Praying for the wave to come now It must be for the fifteenth time I've been here for much too long This is the past that's mine I want t...

The more I want to be me, the less I know myself The living left to die, while ghosts are brought to life Welcome to these slave trades Drained of delusion and buried in debt How the hell do we find each other suffering auto intoxication But disaster isn't c...

A deeply obsessive Suburban militias Tender and blissful Classified forever A diplomatic fever Of our own saviours Married to the future With no solution So write the damaged letters Until the darkness sparkles Essential is the shimmer Of automatik teknicolour...

Wear your eyes as dark as night Paint your face with what you like Wear your love like it is made of hate Born to destroy and born to create Now baby, what've you done to your hair? Is it just the same time of year When you think that you don't really care? N...

Wear your eyes as dark as night Paint your face with what you like Wear your love like it is made of hate Born to destroy and born to create Now baby, what've you done to your hair? Is it just the same time of year When you think that you don't really c...

Blockades won't win you more votes A Cuban adjustment act Offer the world a dream Dress it up - it's blackmail Internal matter they say For two million dollars a day Maybe a future in film But Cuban boxers still win Kidnapped - to the promised land The Bay Of...

I am not dead I demand I know my rights I know my rights You cover illness with flowers And flowers die And flowers die Walk in half view of all mirrors It makes sense to me It makes sense to me Never let yourself out I did it ruined me It ruined me To be m...

Been natural for once in my life Now I'll have to swallow some pride Know that I should never give advice But it's too late now to say goodbye Be natural don't want any friends Be natural come on and hit me again Be natural I'm repeating myself Be natural is...

She should have stayed away from friends She should have had more time to spend She should have died when she was born She should have worn a crown of thorns She should have been, been a son She should have been, been a son She should have been, been a son Sh...

Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Behave Yourself Baby And I Will Be Back Behave Yourself Baby And I Will Be Back Behave Yourself Baby And I Will Be Back Now Baby Love, You're...

I'd better let you know It's time for you to go You're gonna break my heart I'd better let you know It's time for you to go You're gonna break my heart I'd better let you know It's time for you to go You're gonna break my heart I'd better let you k...

I wanna love you I wanna be a better man I don't wanna hurt you Just wanna see what's in your hands Well all right now Yeah yeah Well all right now Yeah yeah Ah... and I know you'll understand Ah... and I know you'll understand I wanna love you...

I'm well aware of happiness, and what it takes to get to it But the simple struggle of survival, transforms itself into betrayal Between the clock and the bed, there's only space and hell, waiting for the transportation Between the clock and the bed sheets in...

Theres a black dog on my shoulder again Licking my neck and saying shes my friend Solitude the one thing that I really miss Guess my life is a compromise Theres a black dog on my shoulder again Im playing with it but its gone to my head Like carlitos way ther...

Theres a little part of me Theres a little part of you Remember the feeling Of a frozen embryo Theres a bigger part of me Theres a bigger part of you Remember the place where You dont want to go Welcome into your own black garden Its full of life but its sti...

Lots of sun for you young boy Lots of sun for you today Subsidize the opera forget coal Sit around in the london smog Cappuccinos amongst the fumes Breathe it in and down the gym Yes Im on a witch hunt now And paracetemol my only drug Youve got some black ho...

Let us overcome our war, our endless progress Art is never modern, for art is eternal Where every single day you're hunted by perfection Paintings are never finished but merely abandoned Resources, divorces with unknown forces Endless endorsements, slowly pas...

Blistered mirrors Distance lingers Broken fingers Bandaged together Blistered mirrors Sad and disfigured Odd and impatient Unlikely but human These blistered mirrors stare back at me They've slowly brought me to my knees A heartbreak so pure, its k...

I'm, I'm feeling too awake I'm, I'm tired of what I see Everybody's dreaming running for the scream The media's stinking drunk nothing is at stake All the faces I love Their skin as soft as leprosy Words choked on my lies Repeating love till they cry All the...

Do I look good for you tonight Will you accuse me as I hide Behind these layers of disguise And the mirrors of my own happiness I've loved the freedom of being inside Need a new start and a different time Something grows in the space between me And it's twist...

Born on a different cloud From the ones that have burst round town, It's no surprise to me, That you're classless, clever, and free Loaded just like a gun You're the hero that's still unsung Living on borrowed time You're my son and you're gonna shine Talkin...

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 Im born to end - born to end Fall to the floor my baby, baby I no longer believe Fall to the floor my baby,...

Is it a kind of dream Floating down on the river Following the river of death down stream Oh is it a dream? Theres a fog on the horizon A strange glow in the sky And nobody knows where you can go Or what does it mean Oh, oh is it a dream Bright eyes Burning...

These are variants of our times Full of mistrust hatred and some lies The heap of broken images The jigsaw breaks again and it can't be fixed The fractured versions of our days The break our wisdom somehow made History gets to write its own lies The p...

If your eyes are the window to your soul If the rules of nature werent so cruel Give me a chance and I'll try to explain The pictures on my wall are fading Those unknown pleasures I was made in Always brooding on all the damage done Tell me how many ti...

I've sealed myself in Laminated all of my skin Sellotaped my world in bits I must embrace paralysis Only in you do we see ourselves Only in you can we see our end So sick and so tired of being 4 real Only the fiction still has the appeal Builder of Routines...

We build buildings for the dead We build restrooms for the sick We build up walls for everything We make a wall for the sake of it And buildings for the people And paintings for the blind Are capable of giving life Or taking out your eyes And buildings for t...

You're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you You feel like heaven to touch I wanna hold you so much At last love has arrived And I thank God I'm alive You're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you Pardon the way...

If the love between us Has faded away Left in the rain Scratching at the stains The paralysed future The past sideways crawl I must give up on this It makes no sense at all Makes no sense at all In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sense the...

If you gave me a fresh carnation I would only crush it's tender petals With me you'll have no escape And at the same time there'll be nowhere to settle I trample down all life in my wake I eat it up and take the cake I just avert my eyes to the pain Of...

I heard a whisper on my radio But I paid no mind Just sat back and I let it go To catch the rain from a lonely waterfall But I might beware 'Cause they could drown me like a dog They got me running in out of time I feel like I'm bona fide Keeper of the right...

Charles windsor whos at the door At such an hour whos at the door In the back of an old green cortina Youre on your way to the guillotine Here the rabble comes The kind you hoped were dead Theyve come to chop, to chop off your head Hundreds of bound big busi...

Christmas day, stuck in the seventies Play all day with your Scalectrics Oh my god, I got a tomahawk How sweet life can be No X-Box and no computers We just used our imagination A leather football was perfection What more could you want? Sleep throug...

I close my eyes and then I count to ten Shake some hands and then I feel ashamed Im in control but I am out of time Ive lost the need for any desire Any desire I had a vision but it slipped away Inherited goodness, it is here to stay Its not about us anymore...

Wake up there's a new day dawning I think I'll take a little walk for a while I need shades cause the sun is blinding And I can see for miles and miles Yeah I can feel the earth beneath me I lie down we are as one They look but they cannot find me I'm off and...

If your wondering why I've not been speaking my mind, sir It took so long since I could call this my home My shapes of confusion, beholds a frustration And there's nothing worse than being home on your own You can colour my life Until it fits with your own Y...

Need someone to nurse me Reach out for the first person I see Comforts the helpless sole vanity Caressing the broken heart of me The difference between love and comfort Is that comforts more reliable and true Brutal and mocking but always there A crutch for e...

Am I an amnesiac or a haemophilliac Or is this a heart attack? That burns the holes in these lips That shelters and stings That blankets then burns That hurts and heals To truth, to sadness To the the I devote Of an increase in heartblood T...

My old school that's closed its doors The once green fields on the concrete floors And the roads are choking full of misery and fear But my vision's getting clearer and my mind it feels so free And the work is hard and the wages are low But the smile's s...

Always feeling torn and slow Love song cull destroy poem Misery and trauma making love Best go shoot the fucking doves The past is so beautiful The future like a corpse in snow I think its all the fucking same Its a life sentence babe A line of vodka tears in...

So mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating so there so nowhere so hurting We fall between indifference rejection and the whole fucking wall We fall Christin me fuhrer nazarine Believe in tomorrow but not today Give me all your possessions Make poverty y...

Baby, baby, baby, baby So you think I got an evil mind Well I'll tell you honey And I don't know why And I don't know why Well you think my singing's out of time Well it makes me money And I don't know why And I don't know why Anymore Oh no So cum on feel th...

can lick your face I can bite it too My teeth's got rabies I'm gonna give it to you Feed me, feed me Can't you hear me howl Feed me Cos I'm a damned dog now Gotta taste for flesh Gotta taste for danger So I foam and chew The hands of a stranger Feed me, fee...

Dead martyrs All stigmartys Dead heroes For fear of zeroes Dead martyrs Always take it further Dead heroes Know no fear Living for some happiness Find nothing that satisfies Had a beginning but it got no end Got no future Just dead stars for dead eyes Got n...

Shes so passive but she's looking good Hes so passive but he's looking good They are together but really they're apart They are together but do not belong, but do not belong Yes ladies and gentlemen Lets fall asleep to a plastic lullaby The ballad of kate and...

Paralysis through analysis Yellow moral unclean decay Silence begins to help me now The sunshine it fades away Symbols have now disappeared How could this happen to me? How could this happen to me? But now I feel so weak Dead trees and traffic islands never m...

Bill and ted and waynes world drawl Just another dull fucking bore Vietnams cool now even supermans believed Hussein still in power as the media war retreats Suck your honey until you choke You are a mechanism of social control Multi-national aim of one world...

Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought Screaming comatose with blackboard chalk Siphoned minds suck a wallet full of love Spitting out a language I don't wanna talk Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe Mother of the free but we just s...

Something's wrong Cause my mind is fadin' And everywhere I look There's a dead end waiting, Temperature's dropping At the rottin' oasis Stealing kisses From the leperous faces Heads are hanging From the garbageman trees Mouthwash, jukebox, gasoline,...

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel? Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? And why not every man? He delivered Daniel from the lion's den And Jonah from the belly of the whale And the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace Why not every man...

Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals Colour my hair but the dye grows out I cant seem to stay a fixed ideal Childhood pictures redeem, clean and so serene See myself without running lines Whole days throwing sticks into streams I have crawled so fa...

Say what you want Break my heart a thousand times But it's still right here So you left me with lies Let the banners unfold Let them fall to the floor We once had each other Now we're not so sure Are we living in the past? Where there's nothing left to fear W...

Arms around each other Fate falling in the distance Eyes with the look of yesterday The weakest in the gang The last to feel alone No luck in your tender bones And I sing to myself My civil wars within The victories and failures I daily lose and win And mon...

The lines have all been blurred To the point of no return The sickos and the bullies praise your name You've enriched their lives with pleasure and fame As a corporate as the suits you won't wear As stupid as the jeans you tear As evil as the pretence you care...

Put some lipstick on At least your lies will be pretty A shadow on my face And us donkeys wake up weary Sweating and sickly Donkeys dont allow their tears No emotion never feel And drown themselves in whatever Find some meaning Donkeys weight cracking a spir...

Im losing all my innocence Door to the river I know Ive stopped making much sense Door to the river I think Ill leave and Ill take some rest Door to the river All my best wishes are just lies Are just lies Id love to see colours like you Door to the river Re...

Realise how lonely this is Self defeating, o fuck yeh Drowned in love and false kisses A gathering of no meaning That shadow is a cross okay Judgement must willing today Silence is not sacrifice Crucifixion is the easy life Who threw the first stone If the s...

So much fun to be had in my head No more sunshine So much fun just lying in my bed No more sunshine I cant face the sunlight and the dirt outside Wanna stay in 666 where this darkness dont lie Drug drug druggy Got a feeling sweet like honey Drug drug druggy N...

I haven't seen your face around Since I was a kid You're bringing back those memories Of the things that we did You're hanging round and climbing trees Pretending to fly D'yer wanna be a spaceman And live in the sky You got how many bills to pay And...

Dying breeds Show some sympathy Get down on your knees And pray for quick release For the dying breeds May become extinct While our children wait Reaching for some grace Like a dinosaur who has lost his home Where the dodos roam with no place to go...

The blank page awaits Love has deserted and made A fool and a drunk out of me My wishes no longer may breathe At home with this feeling again Love has deserted the pain The alcohol starts to sink in The drinking blends us to sin I never meant to beli...

20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade Fake royalty second hand sequin facade Limited face paint and dyed black quiff Overweight and out of date 20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade Fake royalty second hand sequin facade Limited face paint and dyed black quif...

Emily Emily a gift to me Emily Emily a modern sense of beauty Emily as precious as your memory A simple world called liberty The relics the ghosts all down so many roads The relics the ghosts all down so many roads Emily So pity poor Emily Youve been replaced...

I am riding with the empty motorcade All the politicians have left the stage The spectre of the high street, the ghost towns return The out of town cathedrals suffocate and control We were young - and yet we were old We were bought - and yet we were sold...

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 taken home Where that is they only know...

Eins, zwei, drei, vier fünf Eins, zwei, drei, vier Disjointed echoes Hermetically sealed Refreshed and renewed In urban retreats Copied versions Of the London Eye So we can view the unemployed Reserve your needs Britisch[?] artisan Just as fake as your wint...

The statue of liberty looks so solemn on the tv 100% risk of stepping outside Every second too precious to try My heart aches for enola From my birth a rellik a killer But all I want to do is live No matter how miserable it is Please sing to me a song enola/...

We use ourselves like politicians For all the money and indecision - indecision Indecision Feels like there's no escape Except through my hate Second hand germ warfare Denied oxygen everywhere Like a stunned fox - with memory loss A sad numb creature - I wor...

Europe had a language problem German roads, they gave me vision I've seen the future, it's not written This motion makes a modern love song European skies, European desires European roads, European hopes European sons, European love European dreams, European...

Everyone knows, nobody cares Feel us behind hidden intent Whispering like natures discontent Hope has a home We can't find anymore Hope has a home Distant time has gone Hope has a home We can't find anymore Hope has a home Distant time has gone Ever...

Shed some skin for the fear within Is starting to hurt me with everything Freed from the memory Escape from our history, history And I just hope that you can forgive us But everything must go And if you need an explanation Then everything must go I look to...

Everything is, everything was Torn between what still makes us carry on Everything is, everything was Torn between what still makes us carry on Everything can mean whatever Everything can bring us together So come on baby and comb your hair Youre sleepy and ca...

I don't need a lawyer to convict my soul It's the only decent thing living in my bones The evidence against myself is compelling Is so compelling It's hard to avoid all the things you've been saying Things you've been saying Things you've been saying T...

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 Leave this country Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave it Despair seeps t...

Here I am, rise and shine Weighed down of course I smile Here is hospitality skin care tones Clean flesh and lines tainted UV protection This beauty here dipping neophobia Here I am rise and shine Weighed down of course I cry Here is oblivion bathed acid re...

Provincial Lolitas Sprawling in high heels Untamed nature dies Failure Bound, in your eyes See the prams they push around Benefits and drugs are found Sad-eyed, lonely, failure bound Ashen-faced skin, failure bound I listen to money singing It's lik...

I 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 but I only miss these things when they leave I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn Life is for the cold made...

To be afraid of the unknown Don't turn your back on me Control is never full Please follow my orders Fear of motion Unable to function I need you as much as you need me The clash will be as Chaotic as you want it So make a meal and keep moving forward Fear...

At 21 I thought this song was over At 29 my eyes closed tight and suffered Recurring dreams still unrelenting The world turned west, we found redemption At 26 something was delivered No time to think and no time to worry Wrote my words and they made mor...

You are so alone in kensington palace We should be content in these damp terraces Thank you for this view from our council estates I hope you have really guillotined your own head I crown myself, myself a king And declare a first republic We want to play, yes...

I spend my time sittin' on The fence with a mate of mine I'm tryin' to write the line of the story We believe that everything said is a waste of time 'Cause life is well tried and it bores me Yeah, yeah, yeah In my well paid opinion These things they really d...

One, two, three, four... Yeah I feel like a force of nature Could make you sing like a bird released If what you seek is a wise man's treasure You know it's buried beneath your feet You know you look like a faded picture I see the cracks freezing on your skin...

Screaming through the galaxy Trapped in this eternity Stranded helpless, endlessly Alone, the lost vigilantes Forever ever delayed Forever ever delayed From the city to the sea Will you all come follow me To a place where we are free Not tied to guilt or tie...

Show me a wonder You cant be sure of I exist in a place A self-made vacuum But still stranded here With all the scum So clean, so lost So beautiful But I found that soul Yeah I found that home But I found that soul But I found that soul Yeah I found that now...

Strung out eyes as cold as worship Two minutes of silence in a century of screams Tiny massive hands emphatic lonely soul Skin against skin and blood against blood This is the place where peace exists This is the place where my mind resists The fragments fail...

Liberty, sweet liberty Charitable respectability Then pacifism killed us all For all the tourists on the berlin wall So we protest about human rights Worship obesity as our birthright But freedom of speech wont feed my children Just brings heart disease and b...

I write this alone on my bed Ive poisoned every room in the house The place is quiet and so alone Pretend theres something worth waiting for Theres nothing nice in my head The adult world took it all away I wake up with same spit in my mouth I cannot tell if...

I hear my heart beatin' faster I feel it in my bones I want it now 'cause I have ta But why, no one knows I'm like the angel on the a train I'm like the angel of the A train My eyes are diamond white From the cradle till your insane For life you have to fight...

The further away I get from you The harder it gets for everyone else, for everyone else The happier I am when Im with you The harder it gets when I am alone, when I am alone The harder I try to learn something from you Further away Further away feel it fade...

Defenders of the faith, with cruel hearts they make You scarred and insecure, scared to say a word We've all fallen prey, to keep the wolves at bay We'll come back one day, we never really went away, went away. One day we will return no matter how much...

Find your faith in your cocaine The only god I need is a brain Jam your brain with broken heroes Love your masks and adore your chains Babes on the run with poisoned lips Strap your arms round this everlasting kiss Drop your culture of consumption This is a c...

Christmas day, stuck in the seventies Play all day with your Scalectrics Oh my god, I got a tomahawk How sweet life can be No X-Box and no computers We just used our imagination A leather football was perfection What more could you want? Sleep throug...

When did life get so, get so complicated When did life start, start accelerating Make life slower Stop life growing If we can still fall in love If we can still fall in love Embrace with us - make your own Glasnost And in defeat cling to these words so clear H...

Somebody told me to vote conservative Tragedy is not known under this dimmest of lights Everybody feels sick by the courtesy of dismay Was I schooled without direction Gold against the soul Rocknroll has a conscience It supplies convenience Gold against Again...

The platitudes they all dissolved They got too deep, got too involved The platitudes just interludes To break the trust with me and you Oh what a shangri-la Oh what a shower we are Oh what a mess we've made What happened to those days When everything seemed p...

Waking up again To the same old thing To the same old songs To the same old pain Cocooned in this world Where every single thing hurts Bones broken up inside Look at the boredom in my eyes We talk the same We are the same We just can't walk anymore We love...

Hold me down I dont ever want to see the day When my time will come Is it ever going to end Im not here Wish that last of the year Where do we go now Another blackout Hanging onto nothing Hanging onto nothing Hanging onto nothing Hanging onto nothing Im not...

We've had our share of glory We've had our day in the sun Oh this could be, oh this could be We've reached the stars and garden Fell from grace and asked for more Oh this could be, oh this could be This could be a happy ending This could be a happy ending W...

The modern world sits so easily A different kind of honesty Yes I worship at the altar I am a happy consumer A record shop and some clarity Don't need a wilderness to feel solitary Oh don't need a wilderness So take me back To Hazelton Avenue Motion coffee...

I, I wish I could swim Just like a dolphin Like dolphins can swim But nothing is gonna keep us together And we can beat them For ever and ever 'Cause we can be heroes Just for one day I, I will be king And you, you're gonna be my queen Well but noth...

I got married cos you should We both knew we should You do at our age This stage of our career Things get tight A ring helps get a mortgage To move out of daddy's home Get a bigger car Easy access to the city I can read the papers in peace And laugh at the...

The nothing in me The apostle in me No interpretation For the heart of me I can't see right from my wrong I've loved so much that I can't go on It's not my life anymore Don't speak the truth anymore All of the hope and the dreams Ripped right open at the sea...

I walk between the dividing lines I dance around the exit signs I hate the world more than I hate myself I can't pretend that it's a cry for help Tattered manifestos litter the mind Diplomatic plans ravaged by time It never really was the truth or lies...

I can go where I wanna Be who I wanna be now I can sleep under water And not worry what I'm gonna dream now Yeah the time's come and gone And I know where I'm from I can be so It's hasta mañana You're on your own banana-skin feet now Yeah I've been Hung in a...

I feel like speed I feel like liquid I give into you I melt into you I felt like nothing I've said and done it I fall into you I fall into you I don't need anyone Except for someone that I don't know I don't need anyone Except for someone I've not f...

Show me a wonder you can't be sure of I exist in a place a self-made vacuum But still stranded here with all the scum So clean - so lost - so beautiful But I found that soul Yeah I found that home But I found that soul Yeah I found that now Not a subject not...

I live to fall asleep It's when I stop the hate I never want to dream It infiltrates beauty I live to fall asleep Regenerate and sin Skin so tense gives in I've lived enough to kill When did you become another distant friend Everyone who loved you stayed wai...

I think I found it And I think I love it Buried in the dirt, hiding from the light So I walked to the sea Threw a pebble in for you and me A day of wine and roses Has made me feel alive My letter was burnt but your words were wise For mystery and youth must...

Locked up in chains for the rest of my life There's no one else to blame but me The start of the day's just the end of the night I'm feeling like I'm lost in the sea Sometimes it just seems so simple I'm feeling like I'm down on my knees Sometimes like a man...

There's nothing you can say I know exactly where I'm going You said there was no way But I could go without you knowing Just you wait and see I will get what I have come for Don't try telling me I could've given you a lot more Just you wait and see...

I am just a patsy The Oswald in Lee Harvey Made of my own misery The footprints of history I am just a patsy I sell vague conspiracy I'm slow and I'm easy And I'm waiting for delivery I'm just a patsy for your love I need an angel from above To a life deprav...

Petrified for the millionth time Slowly my soul evaporates No parachutes no dismal clouds Just this fucking space I know what's coming I'm not working I know what's coming I'm not working Sweating out intelligence Like I don't know what it is Clinging to the...

When I wake up early in the morning, Lift my head, I'm still yawning. When I'm in the middle of a dream, Stay in bed, float upstream (Float upstream). Please don't wake me, No, don't shake me, Leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping. Everybody seens t...

My heart it skips a beat when I behold The light that's shining through your eyes of gold From heavenly blood you seem to spring From heavenly waters you can drink I'll meet you on a day that never ends I'll greet you in a way that heaven meant You lay...

Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tides live coverage of a gala tribute in salute to Ronald Reagan. Host Haily Barber joins special guest lady Margaret Thatcher in celebrating the former president's 83 birthday. Ticket's are 1000 Dollars a plate but...

The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists Bullets for your brain today But we'll forget it all again Monuments put from pen to paper Turns me into a gutless wonder And if you tole...

Imperial bodybags, coming home in dribs and drabs Life is numbers, with doggy tags Filled with holes and coming back So come on up the sky? can't make out this line very well Never had a chance to wave goodbye Thrown away and unhappy Driven by hypocracy Nothi...

I fell in love, in love with you a million times Your clothes, your hair and the sweetest of smiles We'll never see, see the like of you again A master of pleasure and a master of pain Dark is a way Light is a place Close the curtains in L.A. Open the...

If God persists, persists in saying yes I guess we’ll have, we’ll have to test ourselves Maybe this summer will come and clear our minds To find the impulse to love the sunshine I guess we’ll have to test Until there’s nothing left We said that truth was fixe...

Recollect me darlin', raise me to your lips Two undernourished egos, four rotating hips Hold on to me tightly I'm a sliding scale Gonna hit you on then you can inhale Clearly out of body experience interferes My dreams are flyin, I faint nearly Surrounds...

Oh where are the young men? Men of destiny Only intervention can really set you free How can we put our faith In the United Nations? When there's always someone With ink on their fingers The gospels and swan-songs The sick and the destroyed Drowned out, belo...

Who sees the interiors like young Willem once did Your beautiful triangle of distortion Now you seem to forget it so much Who sees the interiors like young Willem once did Say you can remember say where is the tomorrow Say where you're coming from Say what yo...

[Verse 1] You wrote your autograph on the far side of the sky You recorded the falling rain but you never told us why You painted with fire only the ashes now remain The monochrome desire you left us too young to explain [Chorus] Will you lead us to an empty...

Into a vein exhibit the derelict Secular mosaic distracted at birth A cubist abstraction let it live forever Narcisism so lonely so live by the sea (What a mess) Cosmetic - Polemic Disdinguished - By relics Destructive aesthetic Intravenous agnostic Intraveno...

Well you can say what you want But you won't get a thing from me And if you don't understand That's it's not in your hands you need Let there be love Let there be love Let there be love Let there be love But you can say what you feel And it might never steal...

Sleep the only thing to fill these holes Even if that demon sells its soul Remember the stories you've been told I know the beauty that you adored And it feels Like it's all gone The night is black And the sun has shone And it feels Like it's all gone The ni...

It's better people love one another Cause livin' your life can be tough It's better people speak to each other Your shame is not enough If everybody came alive and stayed alive And lived their lives instead yeah So come outside and feel the light It's cold ins...

I see your sister in her Sunday dress She's out to please She pouts her best She's out to take No need to try Ready to make It's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me baby It's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me Cars are crashin'...

Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question If a married man, if a married man fucks a Catholic And his wife dies without knowing Does that make him unfaithful, Revol? Oh mummy what's a Sex Pistol? Oh mummy what's a Sex Pistol? Oh mummy what's a Sex Pistol? O...

Pretend prayer Pretend care Makes everything seem so fair These perfect abattoirs These perfect actors These perfect abattoirs Only a god can bruise Only a god can soothe Only a god reserves the right To forgive those that revile him Only a god can bruise Onl...

Blessed be the blades Blessed be the sighs Dionysus against the cRucified Find your truth Face your truth Speak your truth And be your truth... Clean your flesh and mock your fears The brightest sun is the purest gun Heal yr'self Hurt yr'self Judge yr'self....

Afraid of the sun So afraid of the sky Touch it and taste it But don't reach too high Bewildered by them Then so uncomplicated All these feelings Not fully created Just a kid amongst the Autumn leaves A kid kicking around with no worries Just a kid searching...

Standing in your _ of a dress, With your shoulders bare to the wind, And your hazel hair tumbles down and covers your face, You are _ , but I know. Just can't be happy without you Just can't be happy without you Just can't be happy without you Just can't be h...

It's nine o'clock I'm getting tired I'm sick of all my records And the clothes I bought today Am I cracking up Or just getting older? Staying in I can't be bothered Making conversation With the friends that I don't know Am I cracking up Or just getting older?...

Hi time magazine hi pulitzer prize Tribal scars in technicolor Bang bang club ak 47 hour Kevin carter Hi time magazine hi pulitzer prize Vulture stalked white piped lie forever Wasted your life in black and white Kevin carter Kevin carter Kevin carter The...

Killing me softly with silence Shoot my eyes out just for fun Killing me quickly with more guidance The cracking of an actor has begun Killing me slowly with torture The staring would scare any man Killing me like a queen bee supreme I'm being honest as I can...

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 to a sigh, to a sigh La tristesse durera Scream to sigh, t...

Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away This year, to stop me from tears I'll give it to someone special Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away This year, to stop mefrom tears I'll give it t...

Dance to the valentine, anthems that kill Valium veins and eyes that sink Lying down I want, want a brainwash trip Dont wanna wake next to your stretched skin Youre screaming so much that I feel sorry to breathe I wanna feel cold and I wanna bleed your diseas...

And how does it feel like To wake up in the sun? And how does it feel like To shine on everyone? How does it feel like To let forever be? How does it feel like To spend a little lifetime Sitting in the gutter? Scream a symphony How does it feel like To sail i...

Where are you now? Broken up or still around? The cia says youre a guilty man Will we see the likes of you again? Can anyone make a difference anymore? Can anyone write a protest song? Pinky lefty revolutionary Burnt at the stake for A voice so pure - a visi...

All the complications, all the deviations All the holy edicts, all the broken subjects Let's go to war! Let's go to war! To feel some pureness and some pain We need to go to war again Working class skeletons lie scattered in museums And all the false economi...

Leviathan, yeah we all want one. Obidience, consent, accept death. Brutalness, this life is short. A Damp refusual, you will be caught. Leviathan, in disguise. Leviathan, in all your eyes. Worship denied on your knees and pray. This simple expectation...

Childbirth tears upon her muscle Very first second a screaming icon Babies in time barely even recognise Words that once stroked now bruising tired lips My idea of love comes from A childhood glimpse of pornography Though there is no true love Just a finely t...

I used to live my life in vain Until today it's been the same I've gone away to disappear My life with you was just too dear A better life is all I need To free me from this naughty league I've been and gone I won't be back I'll live my life without all...

Been at war with myself since the day i was born Cannot find any real peace, just invisible treaties Been at war with myself and all the things i've said If you live with regrets, they can give you some strength I've got to learn to make the best And i've got...

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 slice of me Hopelessly passive and compatible...

We the people fight for our existence We don't claim to be perfect but we're free We dream our dreams alone with no resistance Fading like the stars we wish to be Y'know I didn't mean What I just said But my god woke up on the wrong side of his bed And it jus...

I'm small and I'm tired I'm blurred to bits and wired I'm nothing in this universe Nothing but pieces of dust Appearing in more repeats The mirror man has seen defeat Hide away, be old and grey Alfred J. Prufrock would be proud of me Keep it together - hold...

You're just a wasted fuck A wrinkled up antique All roads to your home will be cursed and drowned Your mind is a wilderness Your taste buds rediculous So come on and give us your trust You work for the world's leading fascist Little trolls, oh little trolls...

As I wake to a sunset The light dances on the Mersey And I think of the 96 As the tears fall down on me There is courage, there is pride You can see it in your eyes Fight for justice, fight for life There are angels in these Ski-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ies...

Famously unknown Elusive and dismantled A correspondence school behind All the world, the darkest glass I don't need it, I don't fear it I don't need it, I don't fear it Long Island blues in Locust Valley In Locust Valley Long Island blues in Locust Valley I...

Ultramarine Everything vanishes Moonlight for my Stars seem to drift Not shared through speech Each sun feels like the last Death is proclaimed at sunset By your final lie Welsh darkness fails With every shade Solitude bides time Joy give...

And now is the winter of my discontent If only the future could rescue it Disturb nobody with no answers All except for the president I broke the golden rule I should have played the fool Your love letter's stayed true The future waits for you It alw...

Heavens weariness, youre climbing the walls Asleep I daydreamed I could change it all Running from something too painful to face Epitaphs torn into bare foot soiled feet Ecstasys columns decay into night Underneath hope she loves only to die? Wasting my time...

Loves sweet exile Loves sweet exile We blur into images of state coercion Classified machines die misunderstood City reflections pour out misery We dont count cos we hate Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave this country Raindown alienation Leave thi...

He stood like a statue As he was beaten across the face With a horse whip Where the wounds already exist A well-oiled rifle And never lonely, Marlon JD If you want to come down, come down Give him some dignity So see, so see Marlon J.D. So see, so se...

Black out the whites of all your eyes Give me the wide spaces that I need inside I've been a rake recollection and then frame it with loss Happy alone again with all my photographs The masking tape that holds our life together For six months of the year The m...

Wherever you go I will be carcass Whatever you see will be rotting flesh Humanity recovered glittering etiquette Answers her crimes withrent Regained your self-control And regained your self-esteem And blind your success inspires And analyse, despise and scru...

Herman the Bull and Tracey the sheep Transgenic milk containing human protein The bacteria cheaper than baby food Attention today Today it's a cow, tomorrow it's you African Punch and Judy show at half the price A hundred thousand watch Giant Haystacks In a B...

Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall It's the time that every santa has a ball Does he ride a red nosed reindeer Does he turn up on his sleigh Do the farries keep him sober for a day So here it is merry christmas Everybodies having fun Look to...

I am nothing and should be everything Youre methadone pretty, surrender in pity Intentional destruction germ Eats your thoughts and make you happy They wanna piece of your skin Pump it safer than, than a suicide Methadone pretty Methadone pretty Heart beats...

Arriving unknowing Truth everywhere Its heartbeat the desire That makes you care Destroying and loving The power is gone Its life-force the knowledge That comes undone It all ends where it all began In the shadow of the midnight sun The shadow of the midnigh...

I am a self obsessed fool, self centred and bruised I am a misguided missile, consumed with denial I am the Sturm Und Drang, I am the Schadenfreude I was the boy who sang, I can still fill your void I am the Sturm Und Drang, I am the Schadenfreude I was the...

Miss europa disco dancer Feel the drug of your persona Miss europa disco dancer Im in heaven when I see you Miss europa disco dancer Favourite son and favourite daughter Miss europa disco dancer I suck suck up all of your power So serene, the world turns blue...

Luddite lover Forgiving father Unhappy forever Live it to where you can Those skies must drive you wild This earth around you This silence around you Be with the sky tonight You've ruined more than you'll gain Know what you mean, but not what you do Nature wi...

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 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness Under neon lonel...

Never ever wanted to be with you The only thing you gave me was the boredom I suffocated in ooh Adrift in cheap dreams don't stop the rain Numbed out in piss towns just wanna dig their graves ooh Motown, Motown junk I laughed when Lennon got shot Twenty-one y...

They call me Mr Carbohydrate It's the only thing I can digest Xenophobia or general disinterest I must catch up with all this stuff They call me a boring fuckhead Say I might as well work in a bank I tell them I wish I was They tell me that I'm sick in the he...

Sometimes I listen to what people try to say Then when I tune in I think, no that's not the way Sometimes I listen to what people have to say Then when I tune in I think, no that's not the way It must be the music It sounds so confusing It must be the music T...

People try to put us d-down Talkin' 'bout my generation Just because we get around Talkin' 'bout my generation Things they do look awful cold Talkin' 'bout my generation I hope I die before I get old Talkin' 'bout my generation This is my generation...

My little empire has risen and its set My little empire is as good as it can get My little empire is coming around My little empire it dont make a sound My royalty it does not exist It is extinct for the eye to see My ideology it is dead and gone Almost forgo...

A feeling sleeping deep inside You hide it so I'll never find Today I think I'll waste my time You never notice, you are blind The dream I have can never be To photograph what the eye can't see I fight to live another day I live to find out, come what may Fai...

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 Blackhorse apocalypse Death sanitised through c...

Im feeling sick with alcohol Im feeling numb with stupid pain I smelt death all around our name I feel the snakes crawling upon my skin Everywhere, everywhere is on its knees Im too scared and Im too afraid ... too afraid Well go down, well go down together...

Vintage aromas and vintage ideals Old men greying to a dying countrys needs Waiting for a knighthood to while away the hours Listen and learn now its time to kill your betters Museums are dead take a new art stance Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat...

Empty endless jubilees Re-enforce our lost freedom, oh well With such little space to breath Still subjects on our knees Provincial trilogies From the heart of our misery Make way for history Flickering like a long lost memory No Jubilees But in the excuse...

To all the people whove hurt me To all the life that has left me To all the longing that lost me To all the future that scares me To all the words that have drained me To all the questions that bored me To all the people that believed me To all the money that...

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 but at what price Whats the point in a...

Whats your story baby No control of what I am saying Winter leaves still make me believe No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree Never had the chance to take you home Now theres no reason just another tomorrow You keep giving me your free air miles What woul...

I am the raping sunglass gaze Of sweating man and escort agencies 60s alienation the anthem of care Now a knife constantly slashing eyelids Slavery to the beat Slavery to the chord Slavery to the pleasure Slavery to the god Slavery to the beat Slavery to the...

It's easy to see, it's easy to see To see only white where colour should be It's easy to feel, it's easy to feel But it's not good enough, even though it's real Oh, please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray Oh, please stay awake And then we can...

I knew that someday I was gonna die And I knew before I died Two things would happen to me That number one: I would regret my entire life And number two: I would want to live my life over again Life is lead weights, pendulum died Pure or lost, spectator or cr...

I wanna' get high But I never could take the pain 'Cause it'll blow away my soul like a hurricane Like a one-man band Clappin' in the pourin' rain If I know where I'm going I don't know from where I came Where we gonna be in summertime? And are we gonna' see...

You don't know what's going on You've been away for far too long You can't come back And think you are still mine You're out of touch my baby My poor old-fashioned baby I said baby, baby, baby You're out of time Well baby, baby, baby You're out of time I sai...

Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved As long as the right words are used Systemised atrocity ignored As long as bi-lingual signs on view Ten foot sign in Oxford Street Be pure - be vigilant - behave Grey not neon, grey not real Life bleeds, death is your b...

Oh say can you see By the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed At the twilight's last gleaming He's a real cool guy and he's a hero of mine Travis, Rhinehart rolled into one cute son Less than zero a grotesque nightmare Subtly disturbing like normal b...

I put you on a pedestal I look at you, you're beautiful I put you on a pedestal I feel ok just for a while I put you on a pedestal I put you where you belong I put you on a pedestal I put me in my own heaven Willing to be put in my place Willing to live in t...

The more I see, the less I scream, The figure eight inside out is infinity The naked light bulb is always on They make your break complete Then they blow it to kingdom come Riderless horses, Noam Chomsky's Camelot Bruises on my hands from digging my nails out...

I'm on my time with everyone I have a very bad posture Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anaemic royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep I'm a li...

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last gleaming? He's a real cool guy and he's a hero of mine Travis, Rhinehart rolled into one cute son Less than zero a grotesque nightmare Subtlely disturbing like n...

[Verse 1] People get tired People get old People get forgotten People get sold People get sold [Chorus] There is no theory of everything No immaculate conception, no crime to forgive Torn between the then and now Never really knowing the why and how People b...

I would like, I would prefer no choice, Just one bread, one milk, one food for all, I'm confused I only want one truth, I really don't mind being lied to, Don't mind being lied to...  So picturesque! Picturesque, here tonight, So picturesque! Picture...

I don't believe in absolutes anymore I'm quite prepared to admit I was wrong This life it sucks your principles away You have to fight against it every single day These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again These are the...

Sickened and housed street death's burned Blacked, lived, compelled and cold Closed down and swallowed formed and regained Blacked, curt, gloat and discerned Shards, oh shards The androgyny fails Odalisque by Ingres Extra bones for sale Born.a.graph...

Were we the kinnock factor Am I talking private sector Do I think Im shaun william ryder Or my former friend whos now undercover Hes gone, Im no deserter Perhaps Im hard, all the same Today a poet who cant play guitar Tomorrow steve ovett has injured his calf...

Quarantine (In My Place Of) In my place of quarantine The world becomes so cold and clean Recurring, always like a dream In my place of quarantine Like a dog with a disease I never wanted to be free Never wanted to be free Like a star, alone and dyi...

Raindrops keep falling on my head Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed Nothing seems to fit Oh raindrops keep falling on my head Keep a-falling Cos I just done me some talking to the sun And I said I didn't like the way he got things done Slee...

Sweet Razorblade Start Your Beat Cut Through The Mire And Skid Through The Grass And Make It Deep Sweet Razorblade Start Your Beat Cut Through The Mire And Skid Through The Grass And Make It Deep Sweet Razorblade Sweet Razorblade Sweet Razorblade Sweet Razor...

Heres a true story Said someone to me yesterday Said hed heard it in a taxi Must have had him at my mercy Drown that poor thing put it out of its misery Condemn it to its future deny its history - deny its history So where are we going were not ready for drow...

My idle ledgers have fiasco boss Time to wake up kids of the cold war Some scars so deep they'll never heal Reparations pint glass unclean Civilisation takes up many forms Usually disguised and fatally flawed White king - red rubber Black death are you...

I've been sound asleep for twenty years If I'm sound asleep a hundred years She won't wake me She won't wake me I've been sound asleep for twenty years If I'm sound asleep a thousand years He won't wake me He won't wake me Nothing stirs us Sound asl...

Conscience binds you in chains Trail by stone hammer and nails No-one made the holes but me Misery mourns to be devoured Killed God blood soiled unclean again Killed God blood soiled skin dead again Again everywhere again All removables, all transitor...

Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition All the emeralds that are missing, oh I wish we still had jack lemon Rendition, rendition I never knew the sky was a prison It's a long hard revolution, oh good god I feel like a liberal For tomorrow I will beg,...

Repeat after me Fuck 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 Fuck Queen and country Repeat after me Royal Khymer Rouge Repea...

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 proved to be two fundamental ways of thinking Repeat after me Fuck queen and country Repeat af...

Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy Mr. Stalin - bi-sexual epoch Kruschev - self love in his mirrors Brezhnev - married into group sex Gorbachev - celibate self importance Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence Revol revol Revol revol Lebensraum kulturkampf Raus raus...

Rewind The Film again I'd love to see my joy, my friends Rewind The Film again So I can fall asleep content Rewind The Film once more Turn back the pages of my book Rewind The Film once more I want the world to see it all I'll want to feel small Lying in my...

Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music Any old way you choose it Its got a back beat, you cant lose it Any old time you use it Rock and roll music If you want to dance with me If you want to dance with me Ive got no kick againt modern jazz Unless t...

Roses in the hospital Try to pull my finger nails out Roses in the hospital I want to cling to something soft Roses in the hospital Progressing like a constant war Roses in the hospital Theres no one to feel ashamed for All we wanted was a home Now were so st...

Youve been this way since school Dysfunctional, translucent Royalty on your wall So desperately mundane Theyre inbred baby just like you But youd love the chance to eat their food Even though it has been chewed Royal correspondent Sad and lonely Royal corres...

Straight jacket your own beauty Because it is just a breakdown away From the gutter to the jewel A symbol sold in investment days Defenceless as the pages you burn A baby drowning under profit curve Money bruises the skin at birth I just wanna lie down in my...

My eco-system is based on hatred My DNA remains untested I hate the tyranny of the Sun It always rises, always comes down I'm running out of fantasy I don't expect your sympathy I'm old, I'm strange I'm confidential Has my fantasy run out of delusion? Has my...

The subtext of this song I've thought about it for so long But it's really not the sort of thing That people want to hear us sing The context of this song Well I could go on and on But it's still unfashionable To believe in principles South South Yorkshire -...

War censored, no blood on tv Cheap entertainment sold like a new deodorant World war three, a sega dreamland Id take a whore to the funeral Sculpture of man Sculpture of man Sculpture of man Sculpture of man Jesus descends, dachau his father Flanders is a co...

The second great depression Lasted longer than I figured It stuck around and lingered Surrounded me and conquered The second great depression Left me cold and withered In your eyes I see it mirrored I can't believe I let it happen I thought about it a millio...

Trying to press, what you might be feeling Why suppress, what you might be needing You missed the moon on Monday morning You were lying in your sink You missed the moon on Monday morning Cause you don't mean anything to anyone anymore Why confess, well you wo...

There’s no hope in the colonies So catch yourself a lifeline Things have gone wrong too many times So catch yourself a slow boat to China Fixing some holes from the tiger’s claws All your tears will be trembling Stick those teeth into my back Seasonal beasts,...

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 dont understand my television Just like a moment in butch cassidy a...

There will be no parades for the likes of us The wars we fight are doomed to be lost I've seen the reflections of my broken blood The callous deception of never giving up No stranger to the cause No stranger to these wars We dream no more no shock and...

You're the devil in me I brought in from the cold You said your body was young But your mind was very old You're coming on strong And I like the way The visions we had Are fading away Your part of a life I never had I tell you that's just too bad 

It reads a novel, with-in a sigh It's cold, it's truthful, it really never lies No black no white, no left no right Just four strong words that will not be denied Self-created for self defence, self esteem is self indulged and yes we've ridden the back of lov...

She'd walk on broken glass for love She thought burnt skin would please her lover To keep love alive and lust beside Kind people should never be treated like... Empty arms and aching heart The love she sought through faltering thought Table for two, suc...

When the sunshine beckons to you And your wings begin to unfold The thoughts you bring and the songs you sing Are gonna keep me from the cold And if a soul is hidden among ya And it's words may rule my soul You can fill me up with what you got 'Cause my hearts...

Beauty finds refuge in herself Lovers wrapped inside each others lies Beauty is such a terrible thing She is suffering yet more than death She is suffering She sucks you deeper in She is suffering You exist within her shadow Beauty she is scarred into man's...

Hope we found our sweet release I hope filled that hole within your soul I hope at last we get some peace I hope the light shines on we as one There'll never be enough to love The river's deep and the road is long And every which way we turn It seems insane B...

This is no threat | Just an invitation | A sense of belonging | A sense of inspiration | Is heaven a place | Where nothing ever happens | Is it too much to ask | To disbelieve in everything Show me the wonder | I have seen the birthplace of the universe | Sho...

You need your stars, even killers have prestige Access to a living you will not see 24 boredom, Im convicted instantly Gorgeous poverty of created needs Slash and burn Kill to live Kill for kicks 3rd world to the 1st Kill to live Worms in the garden more rea...

Morning always seems too stale to justify Lament blossoms, hours minutes of our lives Broken thoughts run through your empty mind At least a beaten dog knows how to lie I feel like Im missing pieces of sleep A memory fades to a pale landscape You were an exti...

The man he moved so far into the west He very nearly went and drowned himself All the failure and of the the ruins Face to face with all your deceptions Slow reflections and strange delays So much to write but not much to say Slow reflections and strang...

You have your very own number They dress your cage in its nature Once you roared now you just grunt lame Pace around pathetic pound games Wanna get out wont miss you sensaround To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks Wanna get out in here youre bred...

Learn to sleep through misery Never gonna wake feeling free No one fucks 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 to make you smile You're so easy to dehuma...

Things get clear when i feel free When whatever next comes easily When gentle hands give life too 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 Paralysed exce...

Whats the point in an education When you have to pay for the privilege? This side of the truth where no sun shines They dont count the cripples and the blind I was thinking everybody had a chance Like a dream stretched way too far All this time such a debt to...

Solitude sometimes is The place that I would like to live Solitude sometimes is When nothing really seems to fit If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too, but not even then Solitu...

Shut my eyes Feel the colour of you Sink into this elation So high so fast Shut my eyes Feel the colour of you Succumb to this illusion So strong so deep 'Cause every day Is all there is In my some kind of bliss Study my reflection And let the co...

The sky is falling in on you Crushed any happiness you knew The tree gave more to you than love It's still there but baby you're gone Remember you, stretched out in the sun All alone forever, conclusions foregone Will you find some kind of nothingness? Still...

(Primo Levi [1919 - 1987]) Sit down and bargain All you like grizzled old foxes We'll wall you up in a splendid palace With food, wine, good beds and a good fire Provided that you discuss, negotiate For our and your children's lives May all the wisdom o...

Talkin' to the songbird yesterday Flew me to a place not far away She's a little pilot in my mind Singin' songs of love to pass the time Gonna write a song so she can see Give her all the love she gives to me Talk of better days that have yet to come Never fel...

Cut your hair in front of business men Kill yourself and censor health Destroy words and ignore their truth Wanna die and have never worked I feel like falling, I feel like falling I feel like falling, I feel like falling I feel like falling, I feel like fall...

Everyone is staring with the glaze of obsession Interlocking cartels bypassing the bone The empty statement of artschool dissension Institutionalised expression of mass control And if when america flings in whole Your pile of misery where centuries be And he...

Obedience to the law is free desire Under curfew from neon barbed wire Wasting away this country, wearing like a born dead Free heroin shots for those who never beg Spectators of suicide Exploding in societys eye Democracy is an empty lie Dead like our yester...

Paint your lips, things fall apart Flowers of hate caress my skin now Spend my time sucked up inside Mutilation kick off all you believe in Starlover youre just a souvenir Starlover youre just another prayer Starlover oh you touch me so Feel like faces withou...

Find your faith in your security All broken up at seventeen Jam your brain with broken heroes Love your masks and adore your failure Were a mess of eyeliner and spraypaint D.i.y. destruction on chanel chic Deny your culture of consumption This is a culture of...

In the morning Dont say you love me Cause Ill only kick you out of the door I know your name is rita Cause your perfume smelling sweeter Since when I saw you down on the floor Guitar Wont need to much persuading I dont mean to sound degrading But with a face...

Hold up Hold on Don't be scared You'll never change what's been and gone May your smile (may your smile) Shine on (shine on) Don't be scared (don't be scared) Your destiny may keep you warm 'Cause all of the stars Are fading away Just try not to worry You'll...

Aint no fun at the government hall Slicked back injustice sits nicely next to smiles Paranoia at the heels of too much greed Obedience an art form while the sad bleed Success and love dictate while skin touches fashion Consumerism beauty for cheap appeal I do...

Im going down to suicide alley cos the air I breathe Tastes better down there Im going down to suicide alley cos the scenes are dead And its the only place for me And Im going down to suicide alley Where you cant get at me And Im going down to suicide alley...

through early mornin' fog I see visions of the things to be the pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see that suicide is painless it brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please the game of live is hard to play I'm gon...

Johnny Mandel M*A*S*H Theme Through early morning fog I see Visions of the things to be The pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see [REFRAIN]: That suicide is painless It brings on many changes I can take or leave it if I please...

Supersonic waves music goes on Coke 'n' smoke movin on thrust You rush smokin' coke As centuries and time pass movin up to now and Then world supremacy captain of music universe Shooting lazer hi tech digital outcasts outlast Mass combat high components...

Stutter stutter says the little boy I wanna blow a hole in my head I swear what this world wants to hear Trapped in what we know as truth syndrome Stutter stutter silence no friend Children can be cruel she said So I smashed her in the fucking head Sorry dear...

Every day I get up and pray to Jah And he increases the number of clocks by exactly one Everybody's coming home for lunch these days Last night there were skinheads on my lawn Take the skinheads bowling Take them bowling Take the skinheads bowling Take them b...

I wanna wake to a shot parade of wealth And take a spray can to my useless vote I don't like your city dresden dance I'm drowning in a manufactured ego-fuck We're dead end dolls and nothings moving We're dead end dolls and nothings moving We're dead end dolls...

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 like your sin Subvert, destroy, beat derelic...

No scream, no smile, no nothing for me It's so hot that I can't breathe Nine stone two and six foot three Rats are crawling on my feet Shrivel to nothing for the company Lizards and geckos cover me Military police are after me But everybody else is so happy M...

My bedroom wall recalls whats in my head A collage constructed and constantly fed Goya mixes picasso but its hardly spain Look through the window, pissing down with rain Lovely labradors outnumber musicians Bonnie and clyde have made their good intentions Pit...

Will my kingdom disappear and fade away Will sleep overcome the hurt and then decay I can't be poisoned and you will not make me cry I've cleansed my ugliness & I've cleansed my paranoia The winner takes it all My baby teeth are gone Into a better p...

Wont someone give me a gun? Oh, well its for my brother, Well he writes the line wrote down my spine It says oh do you believe in love there? So slow down, slow down, youre taking me over And so we drown, sir we drown, stop taking me over Wont someone give m...

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 care I dont believe in it anymore Pathetic acts for a worthless...

Wipe those tears away Keep as still as you can Hold your breath and dig deep And stop those trembling hands Make yourself pretty Just for one last time No one will ever know You ever left your prime The future has been here forever The future's still unclear...

here are no sunsets just silence You could see that she was true and faithless But see through the future and forget all the lies Black out the words for the blind have eyes I am the girl who wanted to be God x2 There are times when you feel hopeless Just fo...

I get up when I'm down I can't swim but my soul won't drown I do believe I've got flare I got speed and I walk on air 'Cause god give me a soul In your rock 'n' roll babe 'Cause god give me a soul In your rock 'n' roll babe And I get so high I just can't feel...

The court has come. The court of the Nations and into the courtroom will come the martyrs of Majdanek and Oświęcim and the sphynx. From the ditch of Kerch. the dead will rise, they will arise from the graves, they will arise from flames bringing with them t...

Lors de mon dernier voyage à Paris Comme d'habitude la nausée me repris La puanteur de l'échec autour de moi Envahi par les spectres de l'échec La derniere fois que j'ai vu Paris The last time I saw Paris J'ai dansé le tango à Paris Mais je me sentais...

From an open book to a closed shop Feeling like an animal The one that time forgot The squadron never dies, falls quickly to demise Some self-sacrifice, some limits to your vice Oh! I never wanted you to change I prefer to stay the same I never want...

The world on your shoulders The love of your mother The fear of the future The best years behind you The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you The love of Richard Nixon,...

Hello it's us again We're still so in love with you And yes we mean it too Yes we're so in love with you Hello it's us again You thought you were our friends Success is an ugly word Especially in your tiny world The masses against the classes I'm tired of gi...

I'm an old jaded Commie walking in Red Square With 3D vision eyes of yesteryear I'm the biggest living hypocrite you'll ever see Cos the mocking never lies, and your conscience is so clean So take your badges off, and do your show then catch the next flight t...

In pursuit of all your dreams, your dreams You can't deny those stifled screams, screams Set the control to the centre of the sun There's no way you're ever stopping us now I won't hear those sad refrains anymore Your Paradise is set to fall, to fall At leas...

The second great depression Lasted longer than I figured It stuck around and lingered Surrounded me and conquered The second great depression Left me cold and withered In your eyes I see it mirrored I can't believe I let it happen I thought about it a millio...

The soulmates They last the distance They make promises They feel like misfits The soulmates They need each other They're faithful warriors They want for nothing The graffiti You left on me Means every part Is still bleeding No souvenirs No sym...

How did this town get so old The air I breathe feels so heavy and cold Always caught in between The capital and the ‘other’ country Always caught in between The river and the valley You can still see the bullet holes You can still sense a little hope Crushed...

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 Deification Depopulation Crescendo of craving Sullen and distorted...

and all the drugs in the world can't save us from ourselves victims with the saddest hearts passing by the grace of God there by the grace of God with grace we will suffer with grace we shall recover there by the grace of God there by the grace of Go...

This Girl's Got Nothing And She Wears Her Heart On Her Wrist She Swears By Her Attitude And The Smile She Never Gives But She's Got Me Oh, She's Got Me This Girl's Got Nothing This Girl's Got Nothing But She's Got Me But She's Got Me This Girl's Got Nothing...

You didn't wake up this morning cause you didn't go to bed. You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red. The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off. You've been reading some old letters, You smile and you think how much you've changed, And all th...

Do not listen to a word I say Just listen to what I can keep silent The only way to gain approval Is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me And* I stare at the sky And it leaves me blind I close my eyes And this is yesterday Someone somewhere soon wil...

Loose and guilty and whipped Sterility persecutes and I have plenty Bruised and nailed and quit Merciful and mourned and meek Jealousy sows rejection with a kiss In silken palms that tear bone from skin This joke sport severed I endeavoured To find a place w...

I don’t want my children to grow up like me It’s too soul destroying – it’s a mocking disease, a wasting disease Somedays I wake up with love still alive I want to go to sleep but I cannot close my eyes I cannot close my eyes I can’t fight this war anymore T...

Walking down dusty roads Looking for horny toads With the sun on my back Thinking about people past Memories that never last When you're young and naive Time ain't nothing When you're young at heart And your soul still burns I've seen rainy days Sun...

When the disappearing begins The ghosts we kept within Can break free from inside And untie our blindfold eyes To repel ghosts To repel ghosts To repel ghosts To repel ghosts So when the ghosts find you Be careful but be graceful For all will be revealed When...

Not since 1958 When Brazil would make our hearts break But now that France has arrived It feels so good to be alive Lets not forget Gary Speed He wore his heart upon his sleeve And if he is looking down Then our love is all around So Come on Ramsey Le...

Born in burial gowns, recessing slowly You soon wish you couldnt see at all Tortured in the mind, six voices alone Futile gestures, emotionless groans Everyone asks whats wrong, but whats right? And a cute lie makes everything uptight To kill your dream before...

Say you stand by your man Tell me something I dont understand You said you love me and thats a fact Then you left me, said you felt trapped Well some things you can explain away But my heartaches in me till this day Did you stand by me No, not at all Did you...

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 hands Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me...

The telephone is ringing You got me on the run Im driving in my car now Anticipating fun Im driving right up to you, babe I guess that you couldnt see, yeah yeah But you under my wheels Why dont you let me be cause when you call me on the telephone Saying tak...

"Underdogs" This one's for the freaks For you're so beautiful For all the devotion Written in your soul This one's for the freaks For the lost and weak For the butterflies and devotees For the disciples of our destiny And like the underdogs we are Shining b...

There is unstoppable salvation in this sound There is unstoppable salvation all around It is unstoppable It's making me feel found There is unstoppable salvation in this sound Carries us forever Carries us together, together, together There is unstoppable sa...

From journalist to video to Channel 4 TV My life is fulfilled so adequately I love my dealer and I travel the world From freelance to new dance And explorer of the world I am From Cantonese food to fashionable friends The list of invites never seems to end S...

Here I am in amsterdam I like it here they speak my language Even though its not my own Its got bbc for comfort zone And best of all, its got marks & spencers Equality for the masses never felt better Some of my dreams, they may have come true But so have...

Here she comes again With vodka in her veins Been playing with a spike She couldnt get it right Splendour in silver dress Velocity possessed The world was hers again It fell apart again I dont need anyone to hurt me No, not anyone at all Cause my so-called f...

They sit around tables rendered dumb Coloured sticks of chalk are passed around Today the doctors allow the illusion of choice Tomorrow the necks split, there is no voice Draw a perfect circle, sleep foetus-like Six chalk colours the very meaning of life They...

You work these streets with a camera round your neck It's your weapon of choice, it's your ultimate defence I've seen your face but I've really seen your smile Did you leave the ruins or did you build a life Vivian did you ever realise All that mystery t...

The usual dreams, the usual schemes Same lost feelings, same bad day dreams Only unreal and delirious, out of breath And out of luck. Sometimes, when I wake up slowly Paralysed by the fears within me Waiting for today to happen Waiting for a vagu...

Driving slowly to the bridge With nothing left that we can give We smile at this ugly world It never really suited you Old songs leave long shadows Makes you shut down all your emotions Money needs money, and slums need the poor Curled like an animal lying on...

Manic Street Preachers have never recorded this "song", and norwould they. Walking down Canal Street, Walking on my own God damn, son of a bitch, i couldn't find a whore. I finally found a whore, but she was rather thin, God damn, son of a bitch, i couldn't...

I got the wattsville blues I got nothing to lose now, baby I got the wattsville blues I got nothing to lose now, baby Time is going on Time is leaving me I got the wattsville blues I got the wattsville blues now, baby But I still love the smile on your face...

Theres something wrong somewhere here So through unclean streets I made my way With holes in my shoes And my children asleep at my feet I paid my way In every town on the way The people looked grey The buildings looked healthy But one day I met a man With m...

Jewels drip red and I dont sound proud Treason is ambition I want dead procession All we got unholy left-overs of a compromise Leaving us like butterflies trapped in frost (bow down) Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you Ceremony rape machine Love wont...

There's something wrong somewhere here So through unclean streets I made my way With holes in my shoes And my children asleep at my feet I paid my way In every town on the way The people looked grey The buildings looked healthy But one day I met a man With...

What the hell is wrong with me, oh-oh I'm not who I'm supposed to be, oh-oh What's my name Name Name I tried to join a Ping-Pong club, oh-oh Sign on the door said all full up, oh-oh What's my name Name Name Here we are in Cambridge now Are we gonna indulge...

Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? I'll be watching over you Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? I'll be watching over you Goodnight my sweetheart Until we leave tonight Hold me in your arms Wish me some luck as you wave goodbye to me...

Na na na na na na na na na Winter lovers, Winter trees The beauty of, dead industry The stuff we have saved, so fataly Comes crashing down, around me Winter lovers, Winter trees Winter longing, falling free Shielding what we need to see A deep true love of t...

As soon as your born they make you feel small, By giving you no time instead of it all, Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all, A working class hero is something to be, A working class hero is something to be. They hurt you at home and they hit y...

I wrote for luck They sent me you I sent for juice They sent me poison I hold the line You form a queue Try nothing hard Theres nothing else you can do You can try But you cant chain me I can sniff, bend, stand and bend and roll over I dont breathe I just danc...

For sale Dumb cunt's same dumb questions Oh virgins Listen, all virgins are liars honey And I don't know what I'm scared of Or what I even enjoy Dulling, get money But nothing turns out like you want it to And in these plagued streets Of pity you can buy any...

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 Throw some acid into your face Pollute your mineral water with a strychnine taste Y...

drinking-water to stay thin or is it to purify I love you all the same But there's no-no real truce with my fury you don't have to believe me I love you all the same but you stole the sun from my heart you stole the sun from my heart you stole the sun from y...

You're so fragile tonight Been up hurting all night It's not trivial like they think Yes you're desperate and you're hurt Thought about it so many times Too afraid to open your eyes To see the sadness that's inside Just sit back in and stop time You're tende...

Your love alone - is not enough not enough not enough When times get tough they get tough they get tough they get tough Trade all your heroes in for ghosts in for ghosts in for ghosts They're always the one's that love you most love you most love you most Yo...

Your ritual everyday A mild shower soak in aftershave Best clothes do your best Look in the mirror go on Belittle yourself yourself yourself Belittle yourself yourself yourself You go on day after day Dreaming on a lie That you keep locked inside Of yourself Y...