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1985
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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 left
Circle the wagons, we're under attack
We've realised there's no going back
We've realised there's no going back

In 1985 the civil war failed why
Kept hidden like scars of birth
Nature unable to soften the words
In 1985 my words they came alive
Friends were made for life
Morrissey and Marr gave me choice

In 1985
In 1985

So God is dead like Nietzsche said
Only sixteen years of age he said
See all the tears for the walking dead
We've realised there's no going back
We've realised there's no going back

In 1985 I placed a bet and lied
Losing all that I had

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4ST7LB
ABLUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"I eat too much to die / And not enough to stay alive / I'm sitting in the middle waiting"

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 target weight
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake
Problem is diet's not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity

Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
n*ked and lovely and 5 stone 2
May I bud and never flower

My vision's getting blurred
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks
And I can feel my breasts are sinking

Mother tries to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole Ryvitta
That's the way you're built my father said
But I can change my cocoon shedding

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity

Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
All things I like looking at
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life

I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me

Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

Yeah 4 stone 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel

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A DESIGN FOR LIFE
ABLUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO
SINGLE : A DESIGN FOR LIFE

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 not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life...

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my pretty 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 not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life...

We don't talk about love
We only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life...

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A SECRET SOCIETY
FROM : GOD SAVE THE MANICS EP

It's Here, It's a Secret, A Secret Society
It's Here, It's a Secret, A Secret Society

It's 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 that man has learnt to invent

For all the glitter
For all the poise
For all the love that
We have destroyed

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 that man has learnt to invent

The Secret Societies
Prevail like Deities
Protecting us from our fear
To keep our Libertines

God save the politicians
God Save the mad parade
God save all the people
Whose lives we have betrayed

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A SONG FOR DEPARTURE
ABLUM : LIFEBLOOD

And all the masks I carry on my face
For you, for another
Some calm and then 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 a song
a song to take you homewards
This is a song

Maybe this strangeness only ever was
To hide ourselves from some kind of happiness
But always the moment it just seems to stay
Tearing it off like so many calendar days

This is a song, this is a song
a song for a departure
This is a song
This is a song, this is a song
a song to break your heart to
This is a song

This is a song, this is a song
a song for broken lovers
This is a song
This is a song, this is a song
a song to take you homewards
This is a song
This is a song, this is a song
a song to break your heart to
This is a song

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A VISION OF DEAD DESIRE
ABLUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS
SINGLE : YOU LOVE US

Primary prole MP judge general policeman
Figureheads s*cked in as just another token
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 - underclass coma zone

Don't pacify your life to suit dead law convention
White trash held up as just more gold chain icons
State fed lies charm empty eyes
Happy thoughts a unity death smile of acceptance

Vision of dead desire - mainline's on a death fix
Vision of dead desire - bleed the thoughts of throwing bricks

Europa land, realise your thoughts
Kill all ruling class laws

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AIN'TS GOING DOWN
SINGLE : YOU LOVE US
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Praying that you'll fall down soon
And your guiltless sex will break in two
We brought you sensitivity and you never knew

No, we ain't going down
No, we ain't going down

I get down to nothing and jumbled up again
Praying your injection is just too good to end
When the summer's gone you know it's dead

No, we ain't going down
No, we ain't going down

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ALL ALONE HERE
SINGLE : EMPTY SOULS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

The dreams of the city
Leave no room for self pity
We're all alone here
So all alone here

Always make the difference
Even when there is no chance
We're all alone here
So all alone here

And the Bethlehem radio is crystal clear and beautiful
We're all alone here
So all alone here

we're all alone here...

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ALWAYS/NEVER
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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, never said and done
Always, always change my mind
Always, always trying to succeed
Always, never facing you
Always, never being true
Always, always gonna be this way

Longing for, it's been a long time longing for
To carry the sky away

Always, never
Always, never
Always, never
Always, never
Always

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ANOTHER INVENTED DISEASE
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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 need to feel

We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease

Left alone in corporate slums
Where germs are free not AMEX fun
Healthy bodies in empty minds
Only exists in advert time

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 need to feel

We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease

Sunk deep in my TV
Maybe s*cked the soul from within me

We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease

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ANTARCTIC
FROM : JAPANESE VERSION OF LIFEBLOOD

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 won't hurt much
Where did the feeling go
It feels like the Antarctic

You made me see the stars
Holding on to mystery
Where the world has lost
I long for such a peace

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 won't hurt much
Where did the feeling go
It feels like the Antarctic
Oh where did the feeling go

So hold all the reflections
Baby it won't hurt much
Where did the feeling go
It feels like the Antarctic

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ARCHIVES OF PAIN
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"I wonder who you think you are / You d*mn well think you're God or something /
God give life, God taketh it away, not you / I think you are the Devil itself"

If hospitals cure
Then prisons must bring their pain
Don't 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

A drained white body hangs from the gallows
Is more righteous than Hindley's crotchet lectures
Pain not penance, forget martyrs, remember victims
The weak die young and right now
We crouch to make them strong

Kill Yeltsin, who's saying, Zhirinovsky, Le Pen,
Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe,
Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda,
Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Milosevic

Give them respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I Give them the respect they deserve

Execution needed
A bloody vessel for your peace
If man makes death death makes man
Tear the torso with horses and chains
Killers view themselves like they view the world
They pick at the holes
Not punish less, rise the pain
Sterilise r*pists, all I preach is extinction

Kill Yeltsin, who's saying, Zhirinovsky, Le Pen,
Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe,
Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda,
Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Manic Street Preachers

Give them respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I give them the respect they D.E.S.E.R.V.E.

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ARE MOTHERS SAINTS ?
SINGLE : LIFE BECOMING A LANDSLIDE
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

If piss is yellow then life must be grey
How come they smile when we throw it away
And if it is a colour then 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
Spit you out but understand

And when their arms are dead how do they sigh
As gentle as the winter that fades by
And some kind of angel appears in her eyes
Or is it just the Devil screaming inside

Why give into useless devotion
Truth and beauty, love and hate, mother and God

They give life and take it back
Spit you out but understand
Stay silent when you want to shout
Give, give when we piss it away

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ASKEW ROAD
SINGLE : THE LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

Askew Road, with charm of napalm
A second home, with love for you all
Askew Road, with bullet proof vows
Always facing hostility and doubt

You make your beds boys, and clear your heads boys
Leave your life behind, reclaim it when you can
Like a deep loss, already restored
Humane and deeply flawed

Askew Road, with cigarette burns
A second home, with love for you all
Askew Road, with bullet proof vows
Always facing hostility and doubt

You make your beds boys, and clear your heads boys
Leave your life behind, reclaim it when you can
Like a deep loss, already restored
Humane and deeply flawed

"Most bands have no respect for us at all, which is fine because we didn't form a band
to get respect from other musicians, You know / That was never an important criteria to us / it's just tragic i think"

Askew Road, a place in my heart
Forever hoping we'll all make our way back

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AUSTRALIA
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia

Praying for the wave to come now
It must be for the very last time
It's twelve o'clock till midnight
There must be someone to blame

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia

Australia, in Australia

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia...

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AUTOMATIK TEKNICOLOUR
SINGLE : THERE BY THE GRACE OF GOD
ALBUM : FOREVER DELAYED

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

So write the damaged letters
Until the darkness sparkles
Essential is the shimmer
Of automatik teknicolour

A bitter-sweet kaleidoscope
A sorry-heart ritual
The trust of a Medusa
Evidence of memorials

This way is the purest
This way is the surest
And all of their dialects
Illustrate the pointless

So write the damaged letters
Until the darkness sparkles
Essential is the shimmer
Of automatik teknicolour...

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BABY ELIAN
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 Pigs
Or baby Elian
Operation Peter Pan
America - The Devil's playground

Baby Elian
Baby Elian

Across the unfair divide
Where black will never meet white
So read my token lips
As if they never exist

You cannot buy a nation
Not even the Miami mob
We follow a shining path
That you will never destroy

Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs
Or baby Elian
Operation Peter Pan
America - The Devil's playground

You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution
You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution

Baby Elian
Baby Elian

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BALLAD OF THE BANGKOK NOVOTEL
SINGLE : FOUND THAT SOUL
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

"The ballad of the Bangkok Novotel"

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 seems so happy

Mini sized apples filled with disease
Even the water tastes like tea
On a diet of Gaviscon
Look at me I'm f**king gone
A light watch, my time today
Madonna's f**king on the car again
On the phone ten times a day
Hiding under the table again

Breakfast, my mouth tastes like piss
M*st*rbtion, there's nothing left
In a daze, anorexic haze
Look outside and join the insane
The bug inside of me won't go
Egg and chips is all I want
So hungry I can taste home
Wake up screaming on all fours

Knocking knock knocking on my door
My life is a disaster
Giant ice cubes rolling on the floor
Someone help me dear God
Everybody has fake smiles
I am losing my f**king mind
I've had enough of being alone
I'd give anything to save my soul

I think that I have seen the Devil
Satan smiles at me in the mirror
Revolution in the Golden Palace
Four sickly boys are losing resistance
So much p*rn and alcohol
I'm so numb to my hormones
But my liberty is winning
Five years later I'm still shaking

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BE NATURAL
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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 there anything else

Starbright keep me safe, today and tonight
No water tastes like lemonade
Slowly slowly it starts to fade

Be natural
With me tonight
Be natural
Put your fists in my eyes
Be natural
So turn me to stone
Be natural
Just leave me alone

Grown up or backwards born
Into eternity and black holes
Floating around up here on my own
Screaming at me forever unknown

Been natural
Been natural
Been natural
Been natural
Is there anyone else?

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BEEN A SON
FROM : (LIVE RECORDED VERSION) B-SIDES AND COVERS COMPLILATION

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 stood out in the crowd
She should have made her mother proud
She should have fallen on her stance
She should have had another chance

She should have been, been a son...

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...

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BLACK DOG ON MY SHOULDER
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

There's a black dog on my shoulder again
Licking my neck and saying she's my friend
Solitude the one thing that I really miss
Guess my life is a compromise

There's a black dog on my shoulder again
I'm playing with it but it's gone to my head
Like Carlito's Way there are no exit signs

Freeze me there until I am numb
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

My dilemma but not my choice
Winston Churchill can you hear my voice
Melodrama there in my kitchen sink
Double vision the way it is

Am I coming home to you again
Or am I stupid just by design
Does it matter if you really ever know

This black dog is out of control
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

Am I coming home to you again
Or am I stupid just by design
Does it matter if you really ever know

This black dog is out of control
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

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BLACK GARDEN
SINGLE : EVERYTHING MUST GO
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

"Glory glory hallelujah / Our truth goes marching on"

There's a little part of me
There's a little part of you
Remember the feeling of a frozen embryo

There's a bigger part of me
There's a bigger part of you
Remember the place where you don't want to go

Welcome into your own black garden
It's full of life but it's still too frightening
Can't open my eyes this whiteness blinds
All this whiteness blinds

Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none

Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none

Waiting to be bred in the black garden
Waiting to be muted and then chosen
White trash you're a swinger
Ugly to the end
Ugly to the end

Swing
Swing

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BLACK HOLES FOR THE YOUNG
SINGLE : THE EVERLASTING
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

Lots of sun for you young boy
Lots of sun for you today
Subsidise the opera forget coal
Sit around in the London smog

Cappuccinos amongst the fumes
I breathe it in then down the gym
Yes I'm on a witch-hunt now
And paracetamol my only drug

You've got some black holes for the young
You won't feel it when it's gone
You've got some black holes for the young
You won't know when it's gone
When it's gone

No sun for you young boy
It will hurt your lily-white skin
Don't think it will hurt your mind
We'll be the ones who will give you soul

Close enough to fill those holes
This tenderness slipping through my fingers
Sandy sandy feet - ice cream to sleep
And no more feelings that you can feel

You've got some black holes for the young
You won't feel it when it's gone
You've got some black holes for the young
You won't know when it's gone

When it's gone
When it's gone
When it's gone
When it's gone
When it's gone
Gone

You've got some black holes for the young
You won't feel it when it's gone
You've got some black holes for the young
You won't know when it's gone
When it's gone

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BORED OUT OF MY MIND
SINGLE : MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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 faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
I'm bored out of my mind
I'm too stone lazy to see

The sun, the sun is leaving me
I can't see it anymore
I tried everything to get along with you
The night's too lonesome when the heat doesn't care

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
Words choked on my lies
Repeating love till they cry

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
I'm bored out of my mind
I'm too stone lazy to see

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BORN A GIRL
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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 twisting and changing this fragile body

And I wish I had been born a girl
Instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man

The censorship of my skin
Is screaming inside and from within
There's no room in this world for a girl like me
No place around there where I fit in

And I wish I had been born a girl
Instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man...

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BORN TO END
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORIST

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
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby
I've lost the love to sleep

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning

Europe freed by McDonalds and Levis - born to end
Can't afford it so I hate it all - born to end
Images linger like repression - born to end
Concentration camps of our dreams - born to end

Fall to the floor my baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby
I've lost the love to sleep

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying dolls

Beg for mercy
Pray for war

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BRIGHT EYES (ART GARFUNKEL)
FROM : A DESIGN FOR LIFE (LIVE VERSION MC )
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

Is it a kind of dream
Floating down on the river
Following the river of death down the stream
Oh is it a dream

There's a fog on the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody knows where you can go
Or what does it mean
is it a dream

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly turn so pale
Bright eyes

Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching over the hill
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream

There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody knows where you can go
And where do you start
into the dark

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly grow so pale
Bright eyes

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BUILDINGS FOR DEAD PEOPLE
SINGLE : TSUNAMI
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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 the people
And paintings for the blind
Are capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

Queue for bread is entertainment
When they're trying to blow your head off
So from the womb into the tomb
Making sure you feel at home

And buildings for the people
And paintings for the blind
Are capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

They're buildings for the people
And paintings for the blind
Capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

History will make us
Or history will break us
All time is the same
All the hindrances linger

We're treated just the same with fame
While branded in this reconciles
Get ready to say goodbye
Get ready to say goodbye

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CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU
SINGLE : AUSTRALIA
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak

So darling if you feel like I feel
Darling let me know if it's real
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you

I love you baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you baby
Trust in me when I say

Oh pretty baby
Don't bring me down I pray
Oh pretty baby
Now that I've found this day
So let me love you baby
Let me love you

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

I love you baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you baby
Trust in me when I say

Oh pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh pretty baby
Now that I've found this day
So let me love you baby
Let me love you

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CARDIFF AFTERLIFE
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

If the love between us has faded away
Left in the rain, Scratching at the stains
The paralysed future
The past sideways scrawl
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 breaking of our lives
In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife

And yet I kept my silence
Your memory is still mine
No I will not share them
Acquaintance through denial

For I witnessed splendour
And evil that no-one saw
And I felt kindness
And vanity for sure
And vanity for sure

In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife
We sensed the breaking of our lives
In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife

In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife
We sensed the making of our lives
In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff

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CHARLES WINDSOR
SINGLE : LIFE BECOMING A LANDSLIDE EP
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

Charles Windsor, who's at the door
At such an hour, who's at the door
In the back of an old green Cortina
You're on your way to the guillotine

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop off your head

Hundreds of bound big business men
Hacks from The Sun, military men
So many rich men weep in despair
On and on into Trafalgar Square

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop, chop your head

These once peaceful streets
The scenes of revenge you'd wished not to see
Revenge is so sweet for those who don't know anything sweet

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop, chop...
Chop off your head

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CLOSE MY EYES
SINGLE : THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
Shake some hands and then I feel ashamed
I'm in control but I am out of time
I lost the need for any desire
Any desire

I had ambition but it slipped away
In holy goodness it is here to stay
It's not about us anymore
It's not about us
about us anymore

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
I open them up and I shut them again
Look at the crowd and then forget my part
Back to memory and then back to the start
Back to the start

Back to some familiar song
Back to reality, back to f**k-all
It's not about us anymore
It's not about us
about us anymore

Close my eyes and then I count to ten
Sign some papers and then they are my friends
Attempt to make a bed, my skin aches
Not even massage can make my body straight
My body straight

Count to ten and pretend I'm home
Just a job I get well paid for
It's not about us anymore
It's not about us
about us anymore

I close my eyes
I close my eyes

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COMFORT COMES
SINGLE : LIFE BECOMING A LANDSLIDE EP
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

Need someone to nurse me
Reach out for the first person I see
Comfort's the helpless sole vanity
Caressing the broken heart of me

The difference between love and comfort
Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for enmity's saddest glare

I wish that someone would hold me
Wrap their arms around a shrinking somebody
Comfort comes and leads me to the morning
Whispered words of sanctuary

The difference between love and comfort
Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for enmity's saddest glare

Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for enmity's saddest glare

Forgetting how I hate self pity blondes
Comfort comes and smoothes her over
Callused hands turn a beautiful dress
Handcuffs now her pearl bracelets

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CONDEMNED TO ROCK 'N' ROLL
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Always feeling torn and slow
Love song cull destroy poem
Misery and trauma making love
Best go shoot the f**king doves

The past is so beautiful
The future like a corpse in snow
I think it's all the f**king same
It's a life sentence babe

A line of vodka tears inside
A shot of boredom helps my mind
Staring through a thousand dead eyes
I guess my nerves are brutalised

Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n'
Condemned to rock 'n' roll

No innocent exit when hope dies
And claustrophobia buys my mind
I ran to breathe contagious lies
No reasons for just living life
Ripcord opens but my soul is cold
With you I never felt more alone
Skin never sweating dignity
Kept my line beneath ecstasy

This fragile prison of sanity
An ocean wave to death babe
Masochistic love going nowhere
You're nothing, pestilience, a seed

Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n'
Oblivions all we know

Lips I kiss just another plague
Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made

Sterile like a line of piss, motherf**ker
Review with avant garde lips, you're just a motherf**ker

There's nothing I wanna see
There's nowhere I wanna go

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CRUCIFIX KISS
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"So mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating /
So there so nowhere so hurting we fall between indifference / Rejection and the whole f**king wall we fall"

Christen me Führer Nazarene
Believe in tomorrow but not today
Give me all your possessions

Make poverty your perfect home
Allow your leaders to control you
Questions are now blasphemy

Why walk when you can crawl
Stay on your knees and kiss my feet
Censorship 'll stop your excess thought
Check your billboard for my tour

Listen to Luke, sermon six:
"And if one of the occupation troops
Forces you to carry his pack
One kilometer carry it two"

Be a tourist in the warzone
Interrogate scriptures and not your stinking home
That diet of bread and water's old

Now feed on alcohol drug and do as you're told
Now we'll take your number for a name
Soak mind control in christening water out of jail

Fall in love, fall in love with me
Nail a crucifix onto your soul...

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D*MN DOG
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"This is d*mn Dog by the Manic Street Preachers, Take one"

I can lick your face
I can bite it too
Ooh my teeths 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 d*mned dog now

Gotta taste for flesh
Gotta taste for danger
So I foam and chew
Bite the hands of a stranger

Feed me, feed me
Can't you hear me howl
Feed me
Cos I'm a d*mned dog now

Feed me, feed me
Can't you hear me howl
Feed me
Cos I'm a d*mned dog

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DEAD MARTYRS
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Dead martyrs
All stigmartyrs
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 no future
Just dead stars for dead eyes
Got no future

Dead stars are always the blackest
Dead heroes the living empty
Dead martyrs hang on forever
Dead martyrs always take it further

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 no future
Just dead stars for dead eyes
Got no future

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DEAD PASSIVE
SINGLE : A DESIGN FOR LIFE
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

She's so passive but she's looking good
He's 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
Let's fall asleep to a plastic lullaby
The ballad of Kate and Johnny
The ballad of Adam and Naomi
The ballad of Michael and Helena
The ballad is forever changing

She's so passive but happy in her way
He's so passive but happy in his way
They do nothing just sit and they pretend
They sit around and pray for it to end
Pray for it to end

Yes ladies and gentlemen
Let's fall asleep to a plastic lullaby
The ballad of Kate and Johnny
The ballad of Adam and Naomi
The ballad of Hugh and Elizabeth
The ballad is forever changing

I'm so passive
A hopeless f**king mess
We're so passive
Do our bit for charity
From Bosnia to London
We do it all for free
We do it all for free

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DEAD TREES AND TRAFFIC ISLANDS
SINGLE : A DESIGN FOR LIFE
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

Paralysis through analysis
Yellow moral unclean decay
Solitary begins to hurt me now
The sunshine it fades away

Syllables 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 meet
Is this, is this my defeat
This purgatory for beginners
Dead trees and traffic islands

Tolerance slips away
Body shrugs and says hello once more
Paint the walls within my mind
Clandestine brain finished period

Lips turn grey inside turns out
I show little defence
I show little defence

But now I feel so weak
Dead trees and traffic islands never meet
Is this, is this my defeat
This purgatory for beginners
Dead trees and traffic islands

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DEAD YANKEE DRAWL
SINGLE : LITTLE BABY NOTHING
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Bill and Ted and Wayne's World drawl
Just another dull f**king bore
Vietnam's cool now and even Superman's believed
Hussein in power as the media war retreats

s*ck your honey until you choke
You are a mechanism of social control
Multinational aim of one world culture
Turning one dollar into another and another

Dead Yankee drawl hey we got your beat
Dead Yankee drawl hey we love Oscar
Smothering injustice seen through starving eyes
Tearing down a forest just to earn a buck

Killed off literature for sex and violence
Fed a generation the equivalent of silence
Dragged Jack down to self same bigotry
Passive acceptance of a consumer society

Fake sentiments tying up contracts
Making idols of guitars and haircuts
Multinational aim of one world culture
Turning one dollar into another and another

Dead Yankee drawl hey we got your beat
Dead Yankee drawl hey we love Oscar
Smothering injustice seen through starving eyes
Burning down a forest just to earn a buck

Dead Yankee drawl hey we got your beat
Dead Yankee drawl hey we love Oscar
Smothering injustice seen through Red Indian eyes
Sideways walk of some Hollywood lies

Let's go down to Greenwich Village and desecrate
The Noraid slogans that justify 6 counties hate
Let's go down Redondo Beach and wax body company
Cos reality for TV is Disney not King, Rodney

Let's go to Indiana Youth Centre quickly
Tyson's money ain't as free as Junior Kennedy's

Yankee
Dead Yankee
Dead Yankee
Dead Yankee drawl

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DEMOCRACY COMA
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

condemned...

Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought
Screaming comatose with blackboard chalk
Siphoned minds s*ck 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 scream

To me the coronation's another auto-da-fe
Taught in schools to see her as a glorious being
I don't see happy homes but the Belfast wall
In Walkman sounds hear Sony control

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream...

Parliament mother of United Nations
Mother of history's dead son, dead sons
DNA of restriction and law
Dead famine spectacle of war

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

"And shocks of hospitals and jails and wars / Whole intellects disgorged in total recall"

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DIDN'T MY LORD DELIVER DANIEL
SINGLE : LET ROBERSON SING
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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?

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
And why not every man

The moon runs down in a purple stream
And the sun refused to shine
And every star did disappear
Yes, freedom shall be mine

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
And why not every man...

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DIE IN THE SUMMERTIME
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals
Colour my hair but the dye grows out
I can't seem to stay a fixed ideal

Childhood pictures redeem, clean and so serene
See myself without ruining lines
Whole days throwing sticks into streams

I have crawled so far sideways
I recognise dim traces of creation
I wanna die, die in the summertime, I wanna die

The hole in my life even stains the soil
My heart shrinks to barely a pulse
A tiny animal curled into a quarter circle
If you really care wash the feet of a beggar

I have crawled so far sideways
I recognise dim traces of creation
I wanna die, die in the summertime, I wanna die

I have crawled so far sideways
I recognise dim traces of creation
I wanna die, die in the summertime, I wanna die

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DONKEYS
SINGLE : ROSES IN THE HOSPITAL
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Put your lipstick on
At least your lies will be pretty
A shadow on my face
And us donkeys wake up weary

Sweating and sickly
Donkeys don't allow their tears
No emotion never feel
And drown themselves in whatever

Find some meaning
Donkeys weight cracking a spine

Sweetness bent double
Whole days making polite
Never moving out of turn
Or even trying to be natural

Those with silence inside
Eyes bare piss holes in the snow
Drained and burnt yellow
And sunk in self-pity

Jerusalem sawn off
Donkeys are only left with lies
Are only left with lies

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DOOR TO THE RIVER
FROM : GREATEST HITS COMPLILATION - FOREVER DELAYED

I'm losing all my innocence
Door to the river
I know I've stopped making much sense
Door to the river
I think I'll leave and I'll take some rest
Door to the river

All my best wishes are just lies
Are just lies

I'd love to see colours like you
Door to the river
Resurrected and feeling blue
Door to the river
I've seen the glory and yes it's true
Door to the river

Fearful of the future now
The future is now
But it's true the things you feel don't go
The people that you love hold on

Baby I lost my way
Following our star
But I guess that's just how you are
How you are

The majesty, the majesty
Door to the river
Pre-eminent amongst the free
Door to the river
Happy and drifting endlessly
Door to the river

All my best wishes are just lies
Are just lies
Sun breaks and cloudbursts
The hardest of all words
The conflict of sin all kept within

Baby I lost my way
Following our star
But I guess that's just how you are
How you are
Just how you are
How you are

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DRUG DRUG DRUGGY
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

So much fun to be had in my head
No more sunshine
So much fun just lying in my bed
No more sunshine

I can't face the sunlight and the dirt outside
Wanna stay in 666 where this darkness don't lie

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
I need sensation like my baby

Show me your scars you're so aware
I'm not barbaric I just care
Drug drug drug

I need a reflection to prove I exist
No more sunshine
I am a victim of designer blitz
No more sunshine

Dance like a robot when you're chained at the knee
The CIA say you're all they'll ever need

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
I need sensation like my baby

Snort your lines you're so aware
I'm not barbaric I just care
Drug drug drug

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
I need sensation like my baby

Drug drug druggy
Drug drug druggy
Drug drug druggy
A B C D E

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DYING BREEDS
FROM : (SHORT FILM) DVD - EMPTYS SOULS

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
I believe in you
Do you believe me

And all the dying breeds
All the dying breeds
All the dying breeds...

I have known you now
Almost half my life
May we never part
May love never die

For the dying breeds
Truth comes easily
Knows no boundaries
Helps us to believe

And like a dinosaur who has lost his home
Where the dodos roam with no place to go
I belong to you
Do you belong to me

And all the dying breeds
all the dying breeds
All the dying breeds...

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ELVIS IMPERSONATOR : BLACKPOOL PIER
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 quiff
Overweight and out of date

Oh well

American trilogy in Lancashire pottery
American trilogy in Lancashire pottery
Is so f**king funny, don't you know
Is so f**king funny, don't you know

All American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
All American trilogy - the future's dead, fundamentally
It's so f**king funny, it's absurd
It's so f**king funny, it's absurd

20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade...

"I wish I was in Dixie / Hooray! Hooray! / On Dixie Land I'll take my stand / To live and die in Dixie"

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EMILY
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

Emily, Emily your gift to me
Emily, a modern sense of beauty
Emily, as precious as your memory:
A simple word 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
You've been replaced by charity

It's what you forget, what you forget that kills you
It's what you remember, what you remember that makes you
We used to have answers, now we have only questions
But now have no direction

The relics, the ghosts, all down so many roads
The relics, the ghosts, all down so many roads

Emily, so pity poor Emily
You've been replaced by charity

It's what you forget, what you forget that kills you
It's what you remember, what you remember that makes you
We used to have answers, now we have only questions
But now have no direction

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EMPTY SOULS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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

Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the Twin Towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison

For the empty souls
For the empty souls

For empty souls they stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know

Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the Twin Towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison

For the empty souls
For the empty souls

Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison

For the empty souls
For the empty souls

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ENOLA/ALONE
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on my TV
Hundred percent 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/alone
Please take me on home
Enola/alone

I walk in the grass and I feel some peace at last
I walk on the beach and for once I feel some ease

I'll take a picture of you
To remember how good you looked
Like memory it has disappeared
N*ked and lonely with my fears

Please sing to me a song
Enola/alone
Please take me on home
Enola/alone...

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EPICENTRE
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 worship the painkiller
It is my epicentre
It is my epicentre

Non-existent energy adrenalin my god
Still clinging to the umbilical chord - umbilical chord
I'm breaking and I'm shaking - so delete the feeling
Beneath the real thing - delete the feeling

Like a stunned fox - with memory loss
A sad numb creature - I worship the painkiller
It is my epicentre
It is my epicentre

I'm sleeping myself away
Into the blurred life of yesterday
I'm tip-tip-a-tapping tip-tip-a-tapping
My nerves are destroyed

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 worship the painkiller
This is my epicentre
This is my epicentre

You don't drink - you don't get high
So make sure you take your medicine boy
You don't drink - you don't get high
So make sure you take your medicine boy

This is my epicentre

Happy black days
Here's the summer
Happy black days
Here's the summer
Happy black days
Here's the summeR...

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EVERYONE KNOWS/NOBODY CARES
SINGLE : THE LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

Everyone knows
Nobody cares

I feel lust behind
Hear turning sins
Whispering like
Nature's discontent

Hope as a home
We can't fight anymore
Hope as a home
Distant time is gone...

Everyone knows
Nobody cares

Faith-giving touch
Or bad intent
Onward we go
To the world we have left

Hope as a home
We can't fight anymore
Hope as a home
Distant time is gone...

Here it's coming too
wear the sin of man in you
Here it's coming too
wear the sin of man in you

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EVERYTHING MUST GO
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 the future it makes me cry
But it seems too real to tell you why
Freed from the century
With nothing but memory, memory

And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go

Freed us eventually
Just need to be happy, happy

And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go...

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EVERYTHING WILL BE
SINGLE : THE LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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
Your sleepy head can no longer care

Everything is, everything was
Everything will fall, everything is all
Everything is, everything was
Everything is all, everything will be

Everything will be

Everything can mean whatever
Everything can bring us together
So come on baby and comb your hair
Your sleepy head can no longer care

Everything is, everything was
Everything will fall, everything is all
Everything is, everything was
Everything is all, everything will be

Everything will be

Everything is, everything was
Everything is all, everything will be

Everything is, everything was
Everything is all, everything will be

Everything will be

Everything will be

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FAILURE BOUND
FROM : EMPTY SOULS (DVD)

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 like looking do wn from long french windows
On a provincial town
The slums, the canal s, the church
Ornate and mad
In the eveni ng sun it is intense ly sad

Failure Bound
Failure Bound

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FEAR OF MOTION
FROM : LET ROBESON SING (12")

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 of motion
Unable to function
Fear of motion
Unable to function

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FASTER
FROM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"I hate purity
Hate goodness
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere
I want everyone corrupt"

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 warm and they are just lizards
Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please
A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell

The first time you see yourself naked you cry
Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing

Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell, learnt to spell

So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything

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FIREFIGHT
FROM : GOD SAVE THE MANICS (EP)

Tonight we watch the burning cars shining bright
Was it boredom, is not the sky enough

Everything I loved is now leaving me
No photographs can show how it used to be

Wake up the past and tell it to stay away
Bad times are here to stay
Wake up the past and tell it to stay away
Bad times are here to stay
Its just a Firefight
Its just a Firefight

What can you do when everything turns to dust
A sign from god replaced what you forgot
What can you do when everything turns to dust
A sign from god replaced what you forgot

Wake up the past and tell it to stay away
Bad times are here to stay
Wake up the past and tell it to stay away
Bad times are here to stay
Its just a Firefight
Its just a Firefight

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FIRST REPUBLIC
SINGLE : KEVIN CARTER
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 wanna play yes we wanna play
In the burnt out palace ruins

You once gave us war
Racism and slavery
Cut out all our tongues
And f**ked our industry

Now you've revealed something
You're human after all this
But let's clap our hands
And f**k our dear princess

I crown myself, myself a king
And declare a first republic
We wanna play yes we wanna play
In the burnt out palace ruins

I crown myself, myself a king
And declare a first republic
We wanna play yes we wanna play
In the burnt out palace ruins

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FOREVERDELAYED / 4 EVER DELAYED
ALBUM FROM : COMPLILATION LIPSTICK TRACES - A SECRET HISTORY OF MANIC STREET PREACHERS

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 tied to greed

Forever ever delayed
Forever ever delayed
Forever ever betraye d
Forever delayed...

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FOUND THAT SOUL
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

album: know your enemy
single: found that soul
(video live version) dvd: louder than war
(video-clip) dvd: forever delayed

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

Not a subject
Not a subject am I
Sick and pale but
Strangely alive
Broken blood vessels
Line my cheeks
Reflections look bad
And somehow unreal

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that home
But I found that soul

Show me a wonder
Show me a wonder...

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FRAGMENTS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

Strung out eyes as cold as worship
Two minutes 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 to hold me
The fragments fail to hold me...

When there's time I'll read your words
There's no point disguising
You're the one who's hurt
Laid bloody and bare to see
The effects will fail to desert me

This is the place where peace exists
This is the place where my mind resists
The fragments fail to hold me
The fragments fail to hold me...

This is the place where my mind resists
The fragments fail to hold me
The fragments fail to hold me...

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH WON'T FEED MY CHILDREN
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 won't feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing

We love to kiss the Dalai Lama's ass
Because he is such a holy man
Free to eat and buy anything
Free to f**k from Paris to Beijing

Little boys with dangerous toys
All bow down to the Beastie Boys
But freedom of speech won't feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing

Royalty - hereditery - unelected and becalmed
Just like Stalin, just like Stalin
Human and useless

Bomb the Chinese Embassy
The west is free, oh the west is free
Laugh at the hammer and sickle
It is antique

And see the love in Richard Gere's eyes
J.S. Pembe rton saved our lives
But freedom of speech won't feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing...

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FROM DESPAIR TO WHERE
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

I write this alone on my bed
I've poisoned every room in the house
The place is quiet and so alone
Pretend there's something worth waiting for

There's nothing nice in my head
The adult world took it all away
Wake up with same spit in my mouth
Cannot tell if it is real or not

I try and walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where

Outside open-mouth crowds
Pass each other as if they're drugged
Down pale corridors of routine
Where life falls unatoned

The weak kick like straw
Till the world means less and less
Words are never enough
Just cheap tarnished glitter

I try and walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where

A cripple walks in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where

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FURTHER AWAY
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

The further away I get from you
The harder it gets for everyone else
For everyone else

The happier I am when I'm with you
The harder it gets when I am alone

The harder I try to learn something from you
Further away

Further away
Feel it fade into your childhood
Further away

Further away
Feel dazed and misunderstood
Further away

The stiller the oxygen the harder you breathe
The draining away just like an old man's dream

The simpler of the answer the harder it can get
The circular landscape comes back only with regret

The more estranged I feel from my youth
Further away

Further away
Feel it fade into your childhood
Further away

Further away
Feel dazed and misunderstood
Further away...

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GLASNOST
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

When did life get so, get so complicated
When did time 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
Humiliations not easily understood
Onto the future
Such messages are burned

If we can still fall in love
If we can still fall in love
Embrace with us - make your own glasnost

If we can still fall in love
If we can still fall in love
Embrace with us - make your own glasnost

If we can still fall in love
If we can still fall in love
Embrace with us - make your own glasnost

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GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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
Rock 'n' roll has a conscience
It supplies convenience
Gold against
Against the soul
Against the soul

Close the pits, sanctify Roy Lynk an OBE
Shareholding a piece of this f**king country
Fossilise, make Yorkshire into a tourist resort
And dream of new ways to humble the poor

Gold against the soul
White liberal hates slavery
Needs Thai labour to clean his home
Gold erodes
Erodes the soul
Erodes the soul

A 1000 Marlboro deaths ignored everyday
And who gives a shit about sexuality

Gold against the soul
Working class cliches start here
Either cloth caps or smack victims
Gold destroyed
Destroyed the soul
Destroyed the soul

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GROUNDHOG DAYS
SINGLE : OCEAN SPRAY
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 these days
These Groundhog Days
We just don't feel like before

I felt the sunset overland
And it made me fight again
But tomorrow came to quick
And I went back to bed again

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 these days
These Groundhog Days
We just don't feel like before
Like before

Is this what you do with eternity
I killed myself so many times I don't even exist any more
So I surrender to impulse but still so numb
So make some time
So make some time
Wake up feeling like a Messiah
Totally f**ked five minutes later
My body a temple falling to pieces
Chocolate or Coke, my needs are artificial
Unintentional, forsaken for what
All in search of our personal gods

Anymore
These Groundhog Days
Like before

Waking up again
To the same old thing
To the same old songs
To the same old pain

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HANGING ON
SINGLE : EVERYTHING MUST GO
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

Hold me down
I don't ever want to see the day
When my time will come
Is it ever gonna end

I'm not here
Wish the last of the year
Where do we go now
Another blackout

Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing...

I'm not real
But I'd like to have a chance to feel
Before we reach the time
Decide what now is right

I'm not here
Wish the last of the year
Where do we go now
Another blackout

Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing...

And nothing and nothing is nothing

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HAPPY ENDING
SINGLE : THERE BY THE GRACE OF GOD
ALBUM :

We've had a 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 gutter
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

We've made more enemies than friends
Maybe too many to count
Oh this could be
Oh this could be

We've looked so old and beautiful
Fought the rain, the sleet and snow
Oh this could be
Oh this could be

This could be a happy ending
This could be a happy ending...

This will be a new beginning
This will be a time for changing
This will be never ending
This will be a happy ending

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HIBERNATION
SINGLE : FROM DESPAIR TO WHERE
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 homeless
I know my friends criticise

But we get by okay
So what if there's no emotion
We can wake up anywhere

There's never a row
No time for a kiss
When you've got schedules to meet
Trivialities seem so cheap

This is above love
This is more than real
This is all there is
This is as good as it gets
Intense morality parades

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HIS LAST PAINTING
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 seams

I can't see right from my wrong
I've loved so much that I can't go on

Seems like I've lost myself
To everybody and everything else
I've lied again today
People laugh at it all the time

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 seams

I can't see right from my wrong
I've loved so much that I can't go on

The nothing in me

The nothing in me
The apostle in me
No interpretation
For the heart of me

The nothing in me
The apostle in me
The nothing in me
The apostle in me

The nothing in me

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I LIVE TO FALL ASLEEP
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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 waited till the end
When did you become another distant friend
Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end
Oh, when did you decide that sleep could save your life
How could you become another boy struck dumb
How could you become another boy struck dumb with love

I live to fall asleep
I live to fall asleep

I live to fall asleep
it helps me through the day
Drink has never dulled
a pain so deep does run

I live to fall asleep
serene alone happy
Holding on to screams
waiting for the time

When did you become another distant friend
Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end
When did you become another distant friend
Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end
Oh, when did you decide that sleep could save your life
How could you become another boy struck dumb
How could you become another boy struck dumb with love

I live to fall asleep
I live to fall asleep

So lazy, lazy, lazy
Chuck down all the pills
Needing to remember how and why to live
Oh, when did you decide that sleep could save your life
How could you become another boy struck dumb
How could you become another boy struck dumb with love

I live to fall asleep
I live to fall asleep

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IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot ra bbits Then I can sho ot 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 tolerate this
Then your children w ill be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children w ill be next
Will be next...

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this
Then your children w ill be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children w ill be next
Will be next
Will be next..

And on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this
Then your children w ill be next
And if you tole rate this
Then your children w ill be next
Will be next...

[ sample of musical bo x, only used in the video-clip of 'if you tolerate this your children will be next']

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IFWHITEAMERICATOLDTHETRUTHFORONEDAYIT'SWORLDWOULDFALLAPART
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage of a gala tribute I n salute to Ronald R eagan / Host Haley B arbour joins special guest Lady Margaret Thatcher in celebra ting The former pres ident's 83rd birthda y / Ticket's are $10 00 a plate / But you can see the event f ree on G.O.P. TV "

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada, Haiti, Poland, Nicaragua
Who shall we choose for our morality
I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy

Big Mac, smack, Phoenix R, please smile y'all
Cuba, Mexico can't cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface

Cool, groovy, morning, fine
(If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
( America)
I love a free country
(Told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
(For one day)

Conservative say:
There ain't no black in the Union Jack
Democrat say:
There ain't enough white in the stars and stripes

Compton, Harlem, a pimp f**ked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats, how white was their skin
Unimportant just another inner-city drive-by thing

Morning, fine, serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one, the best, no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority

Cool, groovy, morning, fine
(If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
( America)
I love a free country
(Told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
(For one day)

Zapruder the first to m*sturbate
The world's first taste of crucified grace
And we say:
There's not enough b lack in the Union Ja ck
And we say:
There's too much white in the stars and stripes

F**k the Brady bill
F**k the Brady bill
If God made man they say, Sam Colt made him equal

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I'M NOT WORKING
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

Petrified for the millionth time
Slowly my soul evaporates
No parachutes no dismal clouds
Just this f**king 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 microwaves
And singing with the soundwaves

I know what's coming
I'm not working
I know what's coming
I'm not working

Delerium on helium
I am my own experience

I know what's coming
I'm not working
I know what's coming
I'm not working...

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INTERIORS (SONG FOR WILLEM DE KOOING)
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 you have left us

Are we too tired to try and understand
That nothing is nothing on that we depend
Take my hand together and we will cry
It really makes no difference
To what we see inside
What we see inside

Who sees the interiors like young Willem once did
A beautiful landscape of your nation
Another era is not forthcoming
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 you have left us

Are we too tired to try and understand
That nothing is nothing on that we depend
Take my hand together and we will cry
It really makes no difference
To what you see inside
What you see inside

Say you can remember
Say where is the tomorrow
Say where you're coming from
Say what you have

Are we too tired to try and understand
That nothing is nothing on that we depend
Take my hand together and we will cry
It really makes no difference
To what you see inside
What you see inside

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INTRAVENOUS AGNOSTIC
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Into a vein exhibit the derelict
A secular mosaic distracted at birth
A Cubist abstraction let it live forever
Narcissim so lonely so live by the sea

What a mess

Cosmetic - polemic
Distinguished by relics
Destructive aesthetic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic...

Brutality is needed in capitalist society
Television abandoned my very entity
Nature failed me
But then it made me
We all pray for pluralist babies

Cosmetic - polemic
Distinguished by relics
Destructive aesthetic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic...

Dismayed - dispossessed
Life becomes Calvinist
So sparkle and believe
Linguistics die easily

Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous

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IT'S ALL GONE
SINGLE THERE BY THE GRACE OF GOD
ALBUM :

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 night is black
And the sun has shone

Sleep, the drug that helps me forget
The yawning reality of regret
While we still remain with no respect
I laugh at our times with no defence

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 night is black
And the sun has shone

It feels like it's all gone...

And it feels
Like it's all gone
The night is black
And the sun has shone...

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IT'S SO EASY
SINGLE : YOU LOVE US
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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
When everybody's trying to please me baby
It's so easy
When everybody's trying to please me

Cars are crashing every night
I drink and drive everything's in sight
I make the fire
But I miss the firefight
I hit the bullseye every night

It's so easy
When everybody's trying to please me baby
It's so easy
When everybody's trying to please me

I see you standing
You think you're so cool
Why don't you just
F**k off

You get nothing for nothing
If that's what you do
Turn around bitch I got a use for you
Besides you ain't got nothing better to do
And I'm bored

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

So come with me
Don't ask me where cos I don't know
I'll try to please you
I ain't got no money but it goes to show

It's so easy, so f**king easy
It's so easy, so f**king easy
It's so easy, so f**king easy
It's so easy

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JUDGE YR'SELF
ALBUM :

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...

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...

Kiss your wounds and mock your fears
The brightest sun is the purest gun

Heal yr'self
Hurt yr'self
Judge yr'self...

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JUST A KID
SINGLE OCEAN SPRAY
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 through the debris
Just a kid acting like I used to be
Just a kid acting like I used to be

Afraid of the sun
So afraid of the sky
Touch it and taste it
But don't reach too high

Hurting and yearning
And yet so carefree
Waking and dreaming
The world at my feet

Just a kid amongst the Autumn leaves
A kid kicking around with no worries
Just a kid searching through the debris
Just a kid acting like I used to be
Just a kid acting like I used to be

Just a kid, just a man and a boy
Just a moment that time will destroy

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KEVIN CARTER
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

"The eye / it cannot choose but see" [this soundbite is only used in the video-clip of 'kevin carter']

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 elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head
Machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
Click click click click click
Click himself under

Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter

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LA TRISTESSER DURERA (SCREAM TO A SIGH)
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST SOUL

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
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh

I see liberals
I am just a fashion accessory
People send postcards
And they all hope I'm feeling well

I retreat into self-pity, it's so easy
Where they patronise my misery
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh

I sold my medal
It paid a bill
It sells at market stalls
Parades Milan catwalks

All the sadness will never go
Will never go away
Baby it's here to stay

La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh

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LAST CHRISTMAS
FROM : LIVE RECORDED VERSION B-SIDES AND COVERS COMPLILATION : LIPSTICK TRACES - A SECRET HISTORY OF MANIC STREET PREACHRERS

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
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
The very next day
You gave it away

This year
To stop me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Once bitten but twice shy
I keep my distance
But you still catch my eye

Tell me baby
Do you recognise me?
It's been a year
It doesn't surprise me

Happy Christmas
I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying:
'I loved you, I meant it'

Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now
I know you'd fool me again

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
You gave it away

This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
You gave it away

This year
To stop me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

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LAST EXIT ON YESTERDAY
SINGLE : NEW ART RIOT (EP)
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Dance to the Valentine anthems that kill
Valium veins and eyes that sink
Lying down I want, want a brainwash trip
Don't wanna wake next to your stretched skin

Your screaming so much that I feel sorry to breathe
I wanna feel cold and I wanna bleed your disease

Hold your head up and pray for the sun
But rain keeps pouring on and on
Loveless, aloneless, life that just impales
As backs break thorns dig deeper in

Your screaming so much that I feel sorry to breathe
I wanna feel cold and I wanna bleed your disease

Baby can't have her little bit of love
Cos it's wrapped up inside her lover's gun
Lazy fat executive seller
Sway to the sound of another dead lover

So dull and tired of his pretty face
Makes the truth seem easy but you know you've lost
Laugh at the TV, empty cell of life
Mundane exile it's not of your choice

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LET ROBERSON SING
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Where are you now
Broken up or still around
The CIA says you're 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 vision so clear
I've got to learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

Went to Cuba to meet Castro
Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned you paranoid

No passport 'til 1958
McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost still buried today
Beneath the lie of the USA

Say what you want
Say what you want

A voice so pure
a vision so clear
I've got to learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

"Now let the Freedom Train come zooming down the track / Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black / Not stopping at no stations marked colored nor white / Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylight / Stopping in the country in the wide open air / Where there never was a Jim Crow sign nowhere / And no lilly-white committees, politicians of note / Nor poll tax layer through which colored can't vote / And there won't be no kinda color lines / The Freedom Train will be yours / And mine"

A voice so pure - a vision so clear
I've got to learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

Sing it loud, sing it proud
I will be heard, I will be found
Sing it loud, sing it proud
I will be heard, I will be found...

[clapping]

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LEVIATHAN
ALBUM : WARCHILD 2005 " HELP : A DAY IN THE LIFE "

"We do also speak politics to you today"

Leviathan, yeah we all want one
Obedience, consent, accept death
Brutal, nasty, this life is short
A Damp refusual, you will be caught

Leviathan disguised
Leviathan in all your eyes
Worship denied, on your knees and pray
This simple expectation to save this day

Dictators or democracy,
all pay the price to make us free,
Angels, devils, and some more charade
Give us pain, a god without shame

Leviathan disguised
Leviathan in all your eyes
Worship denied, on your knees and pray
This simple expectation to save this day

Reprobates, and MPLA
Patty Hearst, oh, they're all the same,
Baader-Meinhof and medusa touch
Leviathan, I am your son

Worship denied, on your knees and pray
This simple expectation to save this day
Worship denied, on your knees and pray...

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LIFE BECOMING A LANDSLIDE
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a man

Everyday more numb to agony
This the howl this the sigh of the lonely
One day I realise oil on canvas
Can never paint a petal so so delicate

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a man

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
A mile empty inside
Life becoming a landslide
Desire on its knees
Life becoming a landslide
A mile empty inside
Life becoming a landslide
Desire on its knees

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LITANY
SINGLE : EMPTY SOULS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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 to learn to make some friends
Tangled up in a spider's web
of my litany...

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LITTLE BABY NOTHING
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"You didn't need to do that / Don't forget all that I took off her / You needn't have been so cruel to someone alone as she is / Delicate article she is / She is, she was / You didn't know blanche as a girl / Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was / But people like you abused her and forced her to change" [this soundbite was used in an early version of 'little baby nothing' but later removed]

[intro, only in the heavenly version of '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 slice of me
Hopelessly passive and compatible
Need to belong, oh the roads are scary
So hold me in your arms
I wanna be your only possession

Used, used, used by men
Used, used, used by men

All they leave behind is money
Paper made out of broken twisted trees
Your pretty face offends
Because it's something real that I can't touch
Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower

No god reached me, faded films and loving books
Black and white TV
All the world does not exist for me
If I'm starving, you can feed me lollipops
Your diet will crush me
My life just an old man's memory

Little baby nothing
Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty
Dress your life in loathing
Breaking your mind with Barbie doll futility

Little baby nothing
Sexually free, made-up to breakup
Assassinated beauty
Moths broken up, quenched at last
The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair...

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LITTLE TROLLS
SINGLE : OCEAN SPRAY
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

You're just a wasted f**k
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
Eat our bread
And sing our songs

Little trolls, oh little trolls
Pay our dues and pay our tolls
Pay our dues and pay our tolls
Pay our dues and pay our tolls
Little trolls

Ignore these small people at your peril
Ignore them all the dirty devils
Strange kind of people
Strange kind of world
Happy when pissed but can't let go
Can't let go
Can't let go

Little trolls, oh little trolls
Silly stupid f**king animals

Little trolls, oh little trolls
Live in caves, live like cannibals
Live in caves, live like cannibals
Live in caves, live like cannibals
Little trolls

Spiteful twisted unforgiven
Sad and inverted and stunted
Retarded ugly balding old man
Old man

Little trolls, oh little trolls
Eat our bread
And sing our songs

Little trolls, oh little trolls
Pay our dues and pay our tolls
Live in caves, live like cannibals
Pay our dues and pay our tolls

Little trolls

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LOCUST VALLEY
SINGLE : FOUND THAT SOUL
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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
In Locust Valley

Simply unconstructed
The shattered portrait's frame
I feel the words and company names
Of his attempts at empty fame

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
In Locust Valley

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
In Locust Valley

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LOVE TORN US UNDER
SINGLE : REVOL
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

Heaven's weariness, I'm climbing the walls
Asleep, I daydream, I could change it all
Running from something too painful to face
Epitaph's torn into barefoot soled feet

Ecstasy's columns decay into night
Underneath hope she let sanity die
Wasting my time on the shackles of her love

At night complete love's torn us under
Love is dragging me under
Betray my other self
The lost hours are over

A gentleman's left me, A cataract's past life
Searching for something I'm unable to find

Too weak, too envious, sorrow's daily rhyme
I found so much grief that I just turned ice

Memory cannot choose where it wants to be
Love this sex, self pity as mangled sheets
A tenderness declines in the mind

At night complete love's torn us under
Love is dragging me under
Betray my other self
The lost hours are over

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LOVE'S SWEET EXILE
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"Between the billboard m*sturbation / Across highways of metallic isolation / There lies the deafening screaming of the millions / Wiping out the diseased pages of apathy that bleed our innocence"

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

Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave it

Despair seeps through and cuts our eyes
Unified collapse of everything inside
We understand but can't accept
That you are not dead cos we hate

Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave it

Our lives drift into a faceless sense of void
Everything of meaning becomes destroyed
There's too much concrete for us to breathe
We are kept down cos we hate

Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile

Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country

Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Believe it

Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile

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MASKING TAPE
SINGLE : LET ROBESON SING
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 masking tape transparent forever
Forever, most of the year
For all the months of the year

Happy black days, now here's the summer
Deadly time left alone with no other
Shivering and hunched, that's me in the corner
Someone calls my name but I don't bother

The masking tape that holds our life together
For six months of the year
The masking tape transparent forever
Forever, most of the year
For all the months of the year

Happy black days, here's the summer
Happy black days, here's the summer
Happy black days, here's the summer...

The masking tape that holds our life together
For six months of the year
The masking tape transparent forever
Forever, most of the year
For all the months of the year

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MAUSOLEUM
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

Wherever you go I will be carcass
Whatever you see will be rotting flesh
Humanity recovered glittering etiquette
Answers her crime with mausoleum rent

Regained your self-control
And regained your self-esteem
And blind your success inspires
And analyse, despise and scrutinise
Never knowing what you hoped for
And safe and warm but life is so silent
For the victims who have no speech
In their shapeless guilty remorse
Obliterates your meaning
Obliterates your meaning...

No birds, no birds
The sky is swollen black
And no birds, no birds
Holy mass of dead insects

Come and walk down memory lane
No one sees a thing but they can pretend
Life eternal scorched grass and trees
For your love nature has haemorrhaged

Regained your self-control
And regained your self-esteem
And blind your success inspires
And analyse, despise and scrutinise
Never knowing what you hoped for
And safe and warm but life is so silent
For the victims who have no speech
In their shapeless guilty remorse
Obliterates your meaning
Obliterates your meaning...

No birds, no birds
The sky is swollen black
And no birds, no birds
Holy mass of dead insect

"I wanted to Rub the human face in it's own vomit / And force it to look in the mirror"

And life can be as important as death
But so mediocre when there's no air, no light and no hope
Prejudice burns brighter when it's all we have to burn
The world lances youth's lamb-like winter

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METHADONE PRETTY
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

I am nothing and should be everything
You're 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 like a refugee machine
Pretty hostage mass, licensed to obey
Xerox days to acceptance
Decline accelerates into prejudice

They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Methadone pretty
Methadone pretty

I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history

I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history, I accuse
I don't need your history

Wreckage inside all that's real
Another bought product, no reality
Passive consumers with patrolled desires
Mindless countdown to retirement

They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Gonna stay a terminal young thing
And never gonna be methadone pretty

Methadone pretty
Methadone pretty
Methadone

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MISS EUROPA DISCO DANCER
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Miss Europa disco dancer
Feel the drug of your persona
Miss Europa disco dancer
I'm in heaven when I see you
Miss Europa disco dancer
Favourite son and favourite daughter
Miss Europa disco dancer
I s*ck s*ck up all of your power

So serene, the world turns blue
Heads are spinning, it feels so good
It's poetry, sheer poetry
The way you destroy your beauty

Miss Europa disco dancer
Brutally becomes a no hoper
Miss Europa disco dancer
Had your luck and had your chances
Miss Europa disco dancer
I never reached the supernova
Miss Europa disco dancer
Wake up drunk and then fall over

So messed up, the world turns grey
All washed up with debts to pay
It's agony, sheer agony
The way your life just fades away

So serene, the world turns blue
Yes you're spinning, it feels so good
It's poetry, sheer poetry
The way you destroy your beauty

So messed up, the world turns grey
All washed up with debts to pay
It's agony, sheer agony
The way your life just fades away

Braindead motherf**kers
Braindead motherf**kers
Braindead motherf**kers...

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MONTANA/AUTUMN/78
SINGLE : IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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 will take care of itself
Your ego will destroy itself

Montana Autumn 78

Your life into the future
Maybe forty years
A life worth saving or lonesome ever more
The nothingness of truth
Or everlasting youth
Ideology or the ultimate thrill

You've ruined more than you'll gain
Know what you mean, but not what you do
Nature will take care of itself
Your ego will destroy itself

Montana Autumn 78

You've ruined more than you'll gain
Know what you mean, but not what you do
Nature will take care of itself
Your ego will destroy itself

Montana Autumn 78
78

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MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Culture s*cks 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 loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness

Life lies a slow suicide
Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
From feudal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power

Just like lungs s*cking on air
Survival's natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow

Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness

All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us...

Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness

Drive away and it's the same
Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim
Your joys are counterfeit
This happiness corrupt political sh*t

Living life like a comatose
Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow

Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness
Everlasting nothingness

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MOTOWN JUNK
SINGLE : MOTOWN JUNK

"Revolution, revolution, revolution..."

Never ever wanted to be with you
The only thing you gave me was the boredom I suffocate in

Adrift in cheap dreams don't stop the rain
Numbed out in piss towns just wanna dig their graves
Ooh ooh ooh

Motown, Motown junk
I laughed when Lennon got shot
Twenty-one years of living and nothing means anything to me

Motown junk a lifetime of slavery
Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds

Motown junk
Motown junk
Motown junk
Motown junk

I don't want cos I just get
All you slut heroes offer is a fear of the future
Ooh ooh ooh

Past made useless and I'm dying now
Communal tyranny a jail that bleeds our wrists
Ooh ooh ooh

Motown, Motown junk
I laughed when Lennon got shot
Twenty-one years of living and nothing means anything to me

Motown Junk a lifetime of slavery
Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds

Motown junk
Motown junk...

Motown Junk a lifetime of slavery
Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds

Motown junk
Motown junk...

We live in urban hell
We destroy rock and roll
[outro]

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MR CARBOGYDRATE
SINGLE : A DESIGN FOR LIFE
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 f**khead
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 head
They say that I'm sick in my head

They call me Mr Carbohydrate
They call me Mr Inadequate
They call me Mr Paranoia
They call me Mr Hypochondria

Have you heard of Matthew Maynard
He's my favourite cricketer
I would rather watch him play
Than pick up my guitar
Than play with my guitar

People tell me that I should get out more
But the TV is my best friend
Cynicism is the only thing that keeps me sane
The only thing that keeps me sane

They call me Mr Carbohydrate
They call me Mr Inadequate
They call me Mr Paranoia
They call me Mr Hypochondria

Sometimes I just stay in bed
And think about the day
When I can retire
Forgetting everything
I'll forget everything

Forget everything
Forever but not today
When I cannot, cannot say
No more yesterdays
No more yesterdays

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MY GUERNICA
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 it together
Keep it together - hold it together

Little someone in my own little Guernica
Sleep so heavy that it's out of the question
Little someone in my own little Guernica
Wake up and pour myself another ice-breaker

Going now so happy and so loose
Making bigger holes in my stomach
Losing losing split down the middle
With no end and no beginning

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

Keep it together - hold it together
Keep it together - hold it together

Little someone in my own little Guernica
Sleep so heavy that it's out of the question
Little someone in my own little Guernica
Wake up and pour myself another ice-breaker

Keep it together - hold it together
Keep it together - hold it together

Little someone in my own little Guernica
Sleep so heavy that it's out of the question
Little someone in my own little Guernica
Wake up and pour myself another ice-breaker
Ice-breaker
Ice-breaker...

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MY LITTLE EMPIRE
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

My little empire
Has risen and it's set
My little empire
Is as good as it can get
My little empire
Is coming around
My little empire
It don't 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 forgotten for the eye to see

My little empire
I'm sick of being sick
My little empire
I'm tired of being tired
My little empire
I'm bored of being bored
My little empire
I'm happy being sad

All of my sins are attempts to fill the voids
All of my voids they are filled with sin
All of my demons they are kept within
And all my violence it does not exist

My little empire
I'm happy being sad
My little empire
I'm f**ked with being f**ked
My little empire
I'm done with being dumb
My little empire
I'm happy being sad
Happy being sad
Happy being sad
Happy being sad

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NATWEST-BARCLAYS-MIDLANDS-LLOYDS
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Economic forecast soothes our dereliction
Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine
Carried away with useless advertising dreams
Blinding children, life as automatons

NatWest, NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit
NatWest, NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit

Barclays iron eagle, 33 injection
Sold to advertisers, computer execution line
They give and take away, repossess and crucify
The more you own the more you are, lonelier with cheap desire

NatWest, NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit
NatWest, NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit

Prosperity - exports for Pol Pot
Prosperity - Mein Kampf for beginners

NatWest, NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit
NatWest, NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit

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NEVER WANT AGAIN
SINGLE : LITTLE BABY NOTHING
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

I'm feeling sick with alcohol
I'm feeling numb with stupid pain
I smell death all around our name
I feel the snakes crawling upon my skin

Everywhere, everywhere is on its knees
I'm too scared and I'm too afraid, too afraid

We'll go down, we'll go down together
And meet a few of you in hell
Burn on by our side
Burn on by our side and never want again

I get told I should be happy
I got no rights on how I feel
I lost my language easily
I saw the rain bleaching my way

My gut gets sick of all its lies
Thrown all hope way outside, way outside

We'll go down, we'll go down together
And meet a few of you in hell
Burn on by our side
Burn on by our side and never want again

We'll go down, we'll go down together
And meet a few of you in hell
Burn on by our side
Burn on by our side and never want again

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NEW ART RIOT
SINGLE : NEW ART RIOT

Vintage aromas and vintage ideals
Old men greying to a dying country's needs
Waiting for a knighthood to while away the hours
Listen and learn now it's time to kill your betters

Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat

Hospital closures kill more than car bombs ever will
And it saves money because people are expendable
Cold shoulder insurgents and love arms dealers
Everybody's taking drugs because it makes governing easier

Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
Sell out the past and learn to obey
You spit out and douse a molotov cocktail

Revolution soon dies, sold out for a pay rise
China, Russia, England, all washed up in power abuse
Terrorism is an excuse that the ruling class use
Wipe out aristocracy now, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

England makes judgements of old school propaganda
The only threat to heads are silenced by dumb pleasure
Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat

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NO JUBILEES
SINGLE : EMPTY SOULS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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 there lies the message
Is loneliness just an invention
The dream is escape, escape but a trap to fall
Desires are fed but will never stop

Provincial trilogies
From the heart of our misery
Make way for history
Flickering like a long lost memory

No Jubilees

Provincial trilogies
From the heart of our misery
Make way for history
Flickering like a long lost memory

no jubilees

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NO SURFACE ALL FEELING
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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
What's the point in always looking back
When all you see is more and more junk

It was no surface but all feeling
Maybe at the time it felt like dreaming

Maybe richer maybe wiser
Seems so easy to not go too far
Beg me to stop hate my face I know
They tell me forever just to go

Just one thing before I get to sleep
Nothing here but the stains on my teeth
No not blood just liquid from you
I only wish it was the truth

Feel the guilt of a sinner
Feel the cold of a winter
It was no surface but all feeling
Maybe at the time it felt like dreaming

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NOBODY LOVED YOU
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

What's 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 there's no reason just another tomorrow
You keep giving me your free air miles
What would I give just for one of your smiles
Just for one of your smiles

Nobody loved you, nobody made you feel so alone
Nobody loved you
Nobody loved you, nobody made you feel so alone
Nobody loved you

Let me turn down all these lights
And sit with me then you can hold me tight
Give me some more of your carrier bags
And let me dream of a new autumn light

Tell me your story baby
What's your poison and what is your honey
You've stopped me hurting but so much disorder
Winter flowers did you ever forgive her
Did you ever forgive her

Nobody loved you, nobody made you feel so alone
Nobody loved you

Cherry blossom tree, but at least you are free
Nobody loved you like me

It's unreal now you're gone
But at least you belong
Nobody loved you

What's the story baby
No control of what I am saying
Winter leaves still make me believe
No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree
Just a cherry blossom tree

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NO-ONE KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE ME
SINGLE : EVERYTHING MUST GO
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

To all the people who've 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 blinded me

No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me

To all the skies that have reached for me
To all the oceans that drowned me
To all the rain that has soothed me
To all the sun that depressed me

To all the people who lived in fear
To all the life that is held so dear
To all the empty souls who still despair
I know it's the same for everyone

No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
Doctor and dentist, housewife and thief
No-one knows what it's like to be me

No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
Doctor and dentist, housewife and thief
No-one knows what it's like to be me

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NOSTALGIC PUSHEAD
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god

They dig the new scene and their parties
Where Stonehenge is worshipped and drug's a deity
Vicarious thrills re-run their youth
We follow we have no voice the dead

Radio nostalgia is radio death
I wanna cover diamonds on my wife
Hard rock nostalgia, the Stones on CD
Tranquillised icons for the sweet paralysed

Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god

So cool the new sound of the decade
Thinks it's so fresh, not a post Elvis still
All taste is nothing, old pictures blow dried
Rebellion, it always sells at a profit

I am a face of fashion in Soho Square
My tie is Paul Smith or Gaultier
My cheeks blood red as my favourite port
But hey cocaine keeps cholesterol at bay

Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Some god

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OCEAN SPRAY
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

"me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne / totemo-utsukushi-i-me-wo-sh*temasu"

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

please stay away
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
please stay away
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

It's easy to breathe, it's easy to breathe
To breathe only air where life should be
It's easy to laugh, it's easy to cry
To cry so so hard that it can't be denied

please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

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OF WALKING ABORTION
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"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 crucified
Recognised truth acedia's blackest hole
Junkies winos whores the nation's moral suicide

Loser, liar, fake or phoney
No one cares
Everyone is guilty
f**ked up, dunno why
You poor little boy

We are all of walking abortions
Shalom shalom we all love our children
We all are of walking abortions
Shalom shalom there are no horizons

Mussolini hangs from a butcher's hook
Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul
Horthy's corpse screened to a million
Tiso revived, the horror of a bullfight

Fragments of uniforms
Open black ruins
A moral conscience
You've no wounds to show
So wash your car
In your X baseball shoes

We are all of walking abortions
Shalom shalom we all love our children
We all are of walking abortions
Shalom shalom there are no horizons

Little people in little houses
Like maggots small blind and worthless
The massacred innocent blood stains us all

Who's responsible, you f**king are
Who's responsible, you f**king are...

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OUT OF TIME
ALBUM : WARCHILD ALBUM " 1 LOVE "

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 said baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Yes, you are left out
Out of there without a doubt
Baby, baby, baby you're out of time

You thought you were a clever girl giving up your social whirl
But you can't come back and be the first in line

You're obsolete, 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 said baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Yes, you are left out
Out of there without a doubt
Baby baby baby you're out of time...

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P.C.P.
SINGLE : FASTER / P.C.P.
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

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 birthright

P.C. she speaks impotent and sterile,
Naive, blind, atheist, sadist,
Stiff-upper lip, first principle of her silence,
Of her silence

P.C.P., a P.C. police victory
P.C.P., a P.C. pyrrhic victory
When I was young P.C. meant Police Constable
Nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference

Liposuction for your bad mouth boy
Cut out your tongue, effigies are sold
Words discoloured, bow to the bland
Heal yourself with sinner's salt

Doctors arrested for euthanasia
Kill smokers through blind vanity
If you're fat don't get ill
Europe's gravestone carved in plastic

P.C. she says innoculate, hallucinate
Beware Shakespeare, bring fresh air
King cigarette snuffed out by her midgets,
By her midgets

P.C.P., a P.C. police victory
P.C.P., a P.C. pyrrhic victory
When I was young P.C. meant Police Constable
Nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference

P.C. caresses bigots and big brother
Read Liviticus, learnt censorship
Pro-life equals anti-choice
To be scared of, of feathers

P.C.P., a P.C. police victory
P.C.P., a P.C. pyrrhic victory
When I was young P.C. meant Police Constable
Nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference

Lawyers before love, surrogate sex
This land bows down to
Yours, unconditional love and hate
Pass the prozac, designer amnesiac

"227 Lears and I can't remember the first line..."

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PATRICK BATEMAN
SINGLE : LA TRISTESSE DURERA (SCREAM TO A SIGH)
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 behaviour

I understand nothing and I cannot speak
I'd walk in the park but the trees are diseased
No sweetheart and I am too confused
I only love my watch and my snakeskin shoes

I feel so small in the supermarket queue
People seem to laugh at my choice of food
My personality is held together with Sellotape
A loose fit just like a numb junkies' hate

I pretty my face with all this cream and stuff
Ugliness inside much harder to cover up
I lack the thought to care about politics
Just do what I like ain't that democratic

Genesis, Huey Lewis, Filofax, CD 5
A backdrop to discuss over expensive wine
Didn't even know when or why I should stop
I feel so stupid like a joke that belongs

I guess all psychos are made out of money
I cannot be saved as liberals keep telling me
I don't wanna be understood I just wanna kill
Out of blandness I am your everyday thrill

Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God

I touched your lips but now I just paint
Surface reflection all I desired babe
I am melancholy, flower cutting through stone
I'm a crime everybody has at home

Papers hate me but they need my behaviour
The dignity amongst Hollywood trivia
Escape is so cheap of alcohol and whores
Mine's the sanity of exclusive gun laws

Art critics say porno's easily obscene
Late show retards Dice Clay is true poetry
They've never tried living underneath the water
That's real end of the century nausea

Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God

Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
I f**ked God up the ass
I f**ked God up the ass

Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman...

"I pledge allegiance to the flag / Of the United States Of America / And to the republic for which it stands / One nation under God / Indivisible with liberty And justice for all"

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PEDESTAL
SIGNLE : SO WHY SO SAD
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 this space
Put you on a pedestal
Put you there just standing still

Pedestal, put you on a pedestal
You make me feel, make me feel celestial
Pedestal, put you on a pedestal
You make me feel, make me feel celestial

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 this space
Put you on a pedestal
Put you there just standing still

Pedestal, put you on a pedestal
You make me feel, make me feel celestial
Pedestal, put you on a pedestal
You make me feel, make me feel celestial...

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PENNY ROYALTY
ALBUM : RADIO 1'S EVENING SESSION PRIORITY TUNES

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 liar and a thief
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
I'm anaemic royalty

I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavoured antacids

Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
Distill the life inside of me
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
I'm anaemic royalty

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PICTURESQUE
ALBUM : GOD SAVE THE MANICS (EP)

I would like, I would prefer no choice
Just one bread, just 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 it's in your heads
So Picturesque, Picturesque now wake yourselves

The shadows is, the shadows is the cross Okay
Judgement must, Judgement must be willing today
Silence is not sacrifice
Crucifixion the easy life
Crucifixion the easy life

So Picturesque, Picturesque it's in your heads
So Picturesque, Picturesque now wake yourselves

The luxury of one more try
Pretend humility the ugly lie
Humility the ugly lie

So Picturesque, Picturesque it's in your heads
So Picturesque, Picturesque now wake yourselves

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PROLOGUE TO HISTORY
SINGLE : IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

Were we the Kinnock factor
Am I talking private sector
Do I think I'm Shaun William Ryder
Or my former friend whose now undercover
He's gone and I'm no deserter
Perhaps I'm hard all the same

Today a poet who can't play guitar
Tomorrow Steve Ovett has injured his calf
Next year the world's greatest politician
Yesterday the boy who once had a mission

I don't want to be
A prologue to history
A prologue to histor...

So I water my plants with Evian
A brand new Dyson that is decadent
Read my papers and the business section
Check out the Tessas and the pensions
Call my friends and they're alright
So I pray for the safety of the night

Today a poet who can't play guitar
Tomorrow Steve Ovett has injured his calf
Next year the world's greatest politician
Yesterday the boy who once had a mission

I don't want to be
A prologue to history
A prologue to histor...

Remember ethnic cleansing in the highlands
No one says a thing in the middle of En-ger-land
I'm bruised fruit but still taste so nice
But if you look at me you better look twice
I'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks
An empty vessel who can't make contact

Today a poet who can't play guitar
Tomorrow Phil Bennett's playing outside half
Next year the world's greatest politician
Yesterday the boy who once had a mission

I don't want to be
A prologue to history
A prologue to history
A prologue to history
A prologue

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QUARANTINE (IN MY PLACE)
ALBUM FROM : (SHORT FILM) DVD : THE LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON

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 dying
Tells you that there's no denying
Tells you that there's no denying

In my place of quarantine
Gives us a chance, a chance to feel
A damage fading, eternal to be
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 dying
Tells you that there's no denying
Tells you that there's no denying
In my place of quarantine...

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R.P. MACMURPHY
SINGLE : STAY BEAUTIFUL
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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 bed
Make myself different from the rest
Use a thought to put myself to sleep
Collapsing in the fields where it feels free
Where it feels free
R.P. McMurphy

No more pills and no more drugs

This country pisses debris
Like ugly people made pretty
Underneath cheap make up
Deformed, disguised mind decay
Buy, consume get more credit
Learn to serve a life sentence here
Style yourself in sterility

I just wanna lie down in my bed
Make myself different from the rest
Use a thought to put myself to sleep
Collapsing in the fields where it feels free
Where it feels free
R.P. McMurphy

No more pills and no more drugs...

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RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD
ALBUM : WARCHILD ALBUM " HELP! "

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
Sleeping on the job
Oh raindrops keep falling on my head
Keep a-falling

But there's one thing I know
The blues they send to meet me won't defeat me
It won't be long till happiness comes up to greet me,
to greet, greet, greet, greet me

Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
Cos I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining

Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
Cos I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining

Because I'm free, nothing's bothering me
Because I'm free, and nothing's bothering me...

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READY FOR DROWNING
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

Here's a true story
Said someone to me yesterday
Said he'd 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
We are not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We are not ready for drowning

Look through my venetian blinds
Dusting the past off of my mind
Seeing orange everywhere

I'd go to Patagonia
But it's harder there
I'll do anything to prove I care

Fascinated by good
Destroyed by evil
What is there to believe in

So where are we going
We are not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We are not ready for drowning

"I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads"

So where are we going
We are not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We are not waving we're drowning

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REMOVABLES
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

Conscience binds you in chains
Trial 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 transitory
All removables, passing always
All removables, all transitory
All removables, passing always

Never grown preserved gently
A bronze moth dies easily
Unknown to others weak to me
Broken hands never ending

Aimless rut of my own perception
Numbly waiting for voices to tell me
For voices to tell me

All removables, all transitory
All removables, passing always...

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REPEAT (STARS AND STRIPES)
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"I've seen this happen before"

"This is a message from occupied England"

"British adults, they expect a nuclear war in their lifetime"

"From earliest human existence There appeared to be two fundamental ways of thinking"

Repeat after me
f**k queen and country
Repeat after me
Death sentence heritage
Repeat after me
Death camp palace

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

Repeat after me
f**k queen and country
Repeat after me
Royal Khmer Rouge
Repeat after me
Imitation demi-gods

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

"I've seen this happen before"

"A force of sensationalism"

"From earliest human existence There appeared to be two fundamental ways of thinking "

"What happens to the brains"

"British adults, they expect a nuclear war in their lifetime"

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

Repeat after me
f**k queen and country
Repeat after me
Royal Khmer Rouge
Repeat after me
Imitation demi-gods

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

"British adults, they expect a nuclear war in their lifetime"

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REPEAT (UK)
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"London, England, consider yourselves warned!"

Repeat after me
f**k queen and country
Repeat after me
Death sentence heritage
Repeat after me
Death camp palace

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

Repeat after me
f**k queen and country
Repeat after me
Royal Khmer Rouge
Repeat after me
Imitation demi-gods

Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum

Useless generations
Dumb flag scum
Useless generations
Dumb flag scum

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REVOL
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

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
Fila fila

Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked
Che Guevara - you're all target now
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces bye bye
Farrakhan - alimony alimony

Revol revol
Revol revol
Lebensraum
Kulturkampf
Raus raus
Fila fila...

Revol

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ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSIC
ALBUM :SINBLE : THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES

Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't 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

I've got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darn fast
And change the beauty of the melody
Until they sound just like a symphony

That's why I go for that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't 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

I took my loved one over cross the tracks
So she can hear my man await a sax
I must admit they have a rockin' band
Man they were going like a hurricane

That's why I go for that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old way you use it
Rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me

Way down South they gave a jubilee
The jockey folks they had a jamboree
They're drinkin' homebrew from a water cup
The folks dancin' got all shook up

And started playin' that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't 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

Don't care to hear 'em play a tango
I'm in the mood to dig a mambo
It's way to early for a congo
So keep a-rockin' that piano

So I can get some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't 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

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ROSES IN THE HOSPITAL
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

Roses in the hospital
Try to pull my fingernails 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
There's no one to feel ashamed for

All we wanted was a home
Now we are so strung out we wanna own
Like a leaf in the autumn breeze
Like a flood in January
We don't want your f**king love

Roses in the hospital
Stub cigarettes out on my arm
Roses in the hospital
Want to feel something of value
Roses in the hospital
Nothing really makes me happy
Roses in the hospital
Heroin is just too trendy

All we wanted was a home
Now we're so strung out we wanna own
Like a leaf in the autumn breeze
Like a flood in January
We don't want your f**king love

Roses in the hospital
This century achieved so much
Roses in the hospital
To make a voice no voice at all
Roses in the hospital
Flowers cannot express the loss
Roses in the hospital
Torn reflections of burnt out trash
Burnt out trash

Forever ever delayed
Forever ever delayed
Forever
Forever

Forever ever delayed
(Independence is a game)
Forever ever delayed
(Credibility, I'm yawning)
Forever
Forever
Rudi Rudi Rudi can't fail

Forever ever delayed
Forever delayed
Forever
Forever

Forever delayed
The West scratches onto my skin
Forever delayed
Contagious like a suntan
We never felt any sun
Rudi Rudi Rudi gonna fail

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ROYAL CORRESPONDENT
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

You've been this way since school
Dysfunctional, translucent
Royalty on your wall
So desperately mundane

They're inbred baby just like you
But you'd love the chance to eat their food
Even though it has been chewed

Royal correspondent
Sad and lonely
Royal correspondent
Kills her daily

Dream of the Daily Mail
It is the Holy Grail
And then the BBC
Your life would be complete

Build a fountain, wash away the poor
Just as long as your motives are pure
Hold on tight or you just might lose her

Royal correspondent
Wears their Sunday best
Royal correspondent
Smarter than the rest...

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S.Y.M.M.
ALBUM : THISIS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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 mass murderer
How can you sleep at night

South South Yorkshire mass murderer
How can you sleep at night

The reason for this song
Well maybe it's a pointless one
But thank you Jimmy McGovern
For reminding me of what lives on

The ending for this song
Well I haven't really thought of one
There's nothing I could ever say
That could really take the pain away

South South Yorkshire mass murderer
How can you sleep at night
South South Yorkshire mass murderer
How can you sleep at night

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SCULPTURE OF MAN
SINGLE : FASTER / P.C.P.
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

War censored
No blood on TV
Cheap entertainment sold like a new deodorant

World War Three
A Sega dreamland
I'd take a whore to the funeral

Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man...

Jesus descends
Dachau is his fathers
Flanders is a corpse under flowers

There's more art In a Burger King
Than the British museum today

Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man...

Wills and Harry dressed in drag
Standing over the sodomised body of their mother
Would make a beautiful poster in Athena

Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man...

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SEPIA
SINGLE : KEVIN CARTER
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

A framed adolescence
Steeped in the history of you
Stopped in 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 television

And just like that moment
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film
But bleeding inside I manage to keep it all in
I keep it all in

I've spoken so much rubbish
Done it in no time at all
Feelings are so fatal in the fall

No you never kissed me
Never felt anything for me
Sepia the stain I remembered

In these unwritten diaries
That can never breathe, never breathe

And just like the moment
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film
But bleeding inside I manage to keep it all in
I keep it all in...

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SHE IS SUFFERING
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

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 s*cks you deeper in
She is suffering
You exist within her shadow

Beauty she is scarred into man's soul
A flower attracting lust, vice and sin
A vine that can strangle life from a tree
Carrion surrounding, picking on leaves

She is suffering
She s*cks you deeper in
She is suffering
You exist within her shadow

Beauty she poisons unfaithful all
Stifled, her touch is leprous and pale
The less she gives the more you need her
No thoughts to forget when we were children

She is suffering
She s*cks you deeper in
She is suffering
Nature's lukewarm pleasure

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SLASH 'N' BURN
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

You need your stars, even killers have prestige
Access to a living you will not see
24 boredom, I'm convicted instantly
Gorgeous poverty of created needs

Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
Third world to the first
Kill to live

Worms in the garden more real than a McDonalds
Drain your blood and let the Exxon spill in
Look around here, you see nothing is very real
Chained to economy now famine has been

Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
Third world to the first
Kill to live

That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need

Madonna drinks Coke and so you can too
Taste's real good not like a sweet poison should
Too much comfort to get decadent
Politics here's death and God is safer sex

Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
Third world to the first
Kill to live
Kill for kicks

Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
Third world to the first
Kill to live

That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need

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SLEEPFLOWER
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety

Endless hours in bed, no peace in this mind
No one knows the hell where innocence dies
Fragments crawling like cobwebs on stone
Blows away the safety only a sleeping pill knows

I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety

I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety

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SMALL BLACK FLOWERS THAT GROW IN THE SKY
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 won't miss you sensaround
To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
Wanna get out in here you're bred dead quick
For the outside
The small black flowers that grow in the sky

They drag sticks along your walls
Harvest your ovaries dead mothers crawl
Here comes warden, Christ, temple, elder
Environment not yours you see through it all

Wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
Wanna get out here you're bred dead quick
For the outside
The small black flowers that grow in the sky

Here chewing your tail is joy

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SO DEAD
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Learn to sleep through misery
Never gonna wake feeling free
No one f**ks 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 are so easy to dehumanise

It's not that I can't find worth in anything
It's just that I can't find worth in enough
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
In your love

Pay for it
Pay for it
Degrade your senses till you hate me

Begging to be cool through nicotine
Decadence costs but she must be clean
Build up walls so you can't feel
When you get high "It's so unreal"

Days fade in and I need the night
I've seen your dumb face all of my life
Eyes close down, I don't wanna see
Broken communion of the twentieth century

It's not that I can't find worth in anything
It's just that I can't find worth in enough
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
In your love

Pay for it
Pay for it
You're gonna pay for my intelligence

Pay for it
Pay for it
Cos I'm a slut and you just s*ck

Pay for it
Pay for it
Degrade your senses till you hate me

Pay for it
Pay for it
We promote all sickness and disease
You're gonna pay for my intelligence
Cos I'm a slut and you just s*ck

You're so dead
You're so dead

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SO WHY SO SAD
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Things get clear when I feel free
When whatever's next comes easily
When gentle hands give life to me
When your eyes fill with tiny tears

When I'm this still you are my life
So at ease in the midnight sky
But my insides will look like war
Paralysed except through my thought

So why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
Dependent on above
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad

My smile as real as a hyena's
Burns an expressway to my skull
But I'll stick myself together again
Spirit so low that I no longer pretend

So why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
Dependent on above
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad

So why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
Dependent on above
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad
So why, so why so sad...

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SOCIALIST SERENADE
SINGLE : YOU STOLE THE SUN FROM MY HEART
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

What's the point in an education
When you have to pay for the privilege
This side of the truth where no sun shines
They don't count - the cripples and the blind

I was thinking everybody had a chance
Like a dream stretched away too far
All this time such a debt to the city
I don't know who is the real enemy

This is a socialist serenade
Yes I have money but I hate champagne
This is a socialist serenade
I can't see the past anywhere

Some greater benefit for the people
Ha ha ha ha we all believe in you
Is it about the politics of celebrity
Or endless days in the sun of Tuscany

This is a socialist serenade
Yes I have money but I hate champagne
This is a socialist serenade
I can't see the past anywhere, anywhere

This is a socialist serenade
Yes I have money but I hate champagne
This is a socialist serenade
I can't see the past anywhere, anywhere

Change your name to "New"
Forget the f**king Labour

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SOLITUDE SOMETIMES IS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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
Solitude sometimes is

Solitude sometimes is
Life that no longer exists
Solitude sometimes is
When there's nothing left to give

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
Solitude sometimes is

Drop your bombs on all I see
Leave this world alone for me
The thing I need to hide behind
It reigns beneath my holy skies

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
Solitude sometimes is
Solitude sometimes is...

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SORROW 16
SINGLE : MOTOWN JUNK
SINGLE YOU LOVE US
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Cut your hair in front of businessmen
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 can't feel no need to care
Narcotic of ambition poisoned my air
Wearing hate like they wear money
s*cking down vodka, spitting out Perrier

I feel like falling, I feel like falling
I feel like falling, I feel like falling
I feel like falling, I feel like falling
In hate!

Oh the road is beautiful
You live stoned in obedience
Your vanity kills people
Paint your ego in blood

Oh the road is beautiful

The wall is a reason for you to believe
There is too many numbers for us to sleep
The wall is a reason for you to believe
Because there are too many numbers, numbers, numbers...

Oh the road is beautiful
You live stoned in obedience
Your vanity kills people
Paint your ego in blood
Oh the road is
B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L....

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SOUL CONTAMINATION
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

Everyone is staring with the glaze of obsession
Interlocking cartels bypassing the bone
The empty statement of art school dissension
Institutionalised expression of mass control

And when America fills in the hole
Your pile of misery where centuries be
And he does win a holiday after a poll
One per cent interest stand up with glee

Soul contamination spreads the germs of finance
Making weak minds think this is what they want
Power facts are brutally sold to worn darkened skin
Arise the new scum arise to the sound of a drum

With your desk degrees in civil engineering
They're drawing up plans for a future for themselves
And sweet daddy buys up a university
On a mission tied next to suits

Soul contamination
Die because you crossed by fire
Soul contamination
Poverty expressed in your heart
Soul contamination
Arise, surrender, burn
Soul contamination
Do you rise up

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THE SOULMATES
JAPANESE VERSION OF LIFEBLOOD

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 symphonies
No dead feelings

The soulmates...

The soulmates
They take their place
They slip away
They remain safe

Oh, the graffiti
You left on me
Means every part
Is still bleeding

Oh, no souvenirs
No symphonies
No dead feelings

The soulmates
Oh, the soulmates
The soulmates...

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SPECTATORS OF SUICIDE
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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 society's eyes
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight

The only free choice is refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicidal pain
Cigarettes a life-line, it's safety in death
Choking on the billboards, advertised and fed

Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eyes
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight

You're gonna shoot us dead with decadence
You're gonna shoot us dead with decadence

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SPECTATORS OF SUICIDE (HEAVENLY VERSION)
SINGLE : YOU LOVE US (HEAVENLY)
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

"SO THE CONCEPT is this, BASICALLY / We're gonna walk on this nation / We're gonna walk on this racist power structure / And we're gonna say to the whole d*mn government: 'Stick 'em up motherf**ker This is a hold up / We come for what's ours'"

Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from sharp neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country, wearing like born dead
Free heroin shots for those who will no longer beg

Spectators of suicide
Exploding in societies eyes
Spitting glass from our mouths
Dying like yesterday

The only free choice is the refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicide or comfort pain
Cigarette dead, lips s*ck red
Choked on the same line that we've all said

Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Spitting glass from our mouths
Dying like yesterday

You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we said
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we said...

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STARLOVER
SINGLE : YOU LOVE US (HEAVENLY)
ALBUM : GENERATIONS TERRORISTS

"You're blind baby, you're blind baby, You're blind baby / you're blind from the facts"

Paint your lips things fall apart
Flowers of hate caress my skin now
Spend my time s*cked up inside
Mutilation kick off all you believe in

Starlover, you're just a souvenir
Starlover, you're just another prayer
Starlover, oh you touch me so

Feels like faces without kisses

Sterile wants spin in my head
I don't need culture, I spit it out
Twist and fall, wounds don't choke
I piss on records, wanna see you dead

Starlover, you're just a souvenir
Starlover, you're just another prayer
Starlover oh you touch me so

A body voice born under torture

Leper cult disciples of a still born Christ
I worship stone so lance my eyes

Miles apart from anyone
Summer airwaves of killing oxygen
We queue consuming anything
Hate all songs, aesthetic slavery yeah

Starlover, you're just a souvenir
Starlover, you're just another prayer
Starlover, oh you touch me so

Feels like faces without kisses

Starlover
Starlover...

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STAY BEAUTIFUL
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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
DIY destruction on Chanel chic
In the culture of consumption
This is a culture of destruction

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just...

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just...

Babes on the run with poisoned lips
Wrap your arms around this everlasting kiss
Clinging to your own sense of waste
All we love is lonely wreckage

Your school your dole and your chequebook dreams
Your clothes your suits and your pension schemes
Now you say you know how we feel
But don't fall in love cos we hate you still

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just...

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just..

Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Anxiety is freedom

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STAY WITH ME
SINGLE : SHE IS SUFFERING
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"Where's me man, where's me man Bernard
This is our own sweet memory to our beautiful manager"

In the mornin' don't say you love me
Cos I'll only kick you in the head
I know your name is Rita
Cos your perfume's smellin' sweeter
Since last time you were down on the floor

I don't mean to sound degrading
But you won't take much persuading
While it gets too far and not laugh about
Red lips, hair and fingernails
I hear you're a mean old Jezebel
Let's go upstairs and read my tarot cards

Oh stay with me, stay with me
Mr Martin Hall, you're gonna stay with me
Stay with me, stay with me
Cos tonight you're gonna stay with me

Close it on Sunday morning
Cos I'll only kick you out of the door
Yeah I'll pay your cab home
You can even use my best cologne
But don't be here in the mornin' when I wake up

Stay with me, stay with me
Cos tonight you're gonna stay with me
Stay with me, stay with me
Cos tonight you're gonna stay with me

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STRIP IT DOWN
SINGLE : NEW ART RIOT (EP)
ALBUM : GENERATIONS TERRORISTS

Ain't no fun at the government hall
s*cked 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 don't wanna dance for people to watch
Smother my life in interest accounts

Outside life brings down genocide
And consumer self-hate leads to designer bullshit
Hate is art and we steal cars
Decaying flowers in the playground of the rich

You can launch sweetly and say nice things
But I ain't ever on the way up
My only way is down on disease that tries to suffocate
The pure ideals that turn to hate

Strip it down

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SUICIDE ALLEY
SINGLE : SUICIDE ALLEY
SINGLE : LITTLE BABY NOTHING
ALBUM : GENERATIONS TERRORISTS

I'm going down to suicide alley
Cos the air that I breathe
Tastes better down there

I'm going down to suicide alley
Cos the scenes are dead
And it's the only place for me

And I'm going down to suicide alley
Where you can't get at me
And I'm going down to suicide alley
Where I can be what I want to be

I'm going down to suicide alley
Cos the air that I breathe
Tastes better down there

I'm going down to suicide alley
Cos the scenes are dead
And it's the only place for me

And I'm going down to suicide alley
Where you can't get at me
And I'm going down to suicide alley
Where I can be what I want to be

You wanna leave the world behind
With your eyes make a different scene
Up in suicide alley
You can be what I want you to be

You wanna clean away my mind
With your eyes make a different scene
Up in suicide alley
You can be what I want you to be

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SYMPHONY OF TOURETTE
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 f**king head
Sorry dear that's the nature of Tourette

Stutter stutter nothing else but me
I twitch and turn while underneath

My contemporaries are so in control
f**k you f**k you I grunt and groan
Stutter stutter can't keep it no more

Children can be cruel she said
So I smashed her in the f**king head
Sorry dear it's the nature of Tourette

stutter stutter are your eyes closed
You know a hole through which you can fall

But I can't even be bothered to hang on
When you're this numb news don't register
I just opened my eyes

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TAKE THE SKINHEADS BOWLING
SINGLE : AUTRALIA
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

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 bowling

Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes
Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same
There's not a line here that goes here that rhymes with anything
I had a dream last night, but I forget what it was

Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling

I had a dream last night about you my friend
I had a dream, I wanted to sleep next to plastic
I had a dream, I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream, it was about nothing

Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowlinG...

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TEENAGE 20/20
SINGLE : NEW ART RIOT (EP)
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

I wanna wake to a shot parade of wealth
And take a spray can to my useless vote
I don't like your city of Dresden dance
I'm drowning in a manufactured ego-f**k

We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving

Speeding so lonely into wall after wall
Teenage 20/20 beat the in-call
Sick to the stomach of our fingertip scrawl
All your rebellion corporation owned

We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving

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TENNESSEE
ALBUM : GENERATION TERRORISTS

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
Media sells a trace of hate

Our epitaph reads like your sin
Subvert, destroy, beat derelict

Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Commanche becomes as maggot
Tennessee eyes orange once blue
Media sells a trace of hate
Media sells a trace of hate

His pain forces her agony
His heart PMRC
His heart PMRC
The white man is disease
His heart PMRC

Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love

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TENNESSEE (I GET LOW)
SINGLE : SUICIDE ALLEY

They'd never beat that deeper in
Cos I want her and she wants him
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Take those pills and now she'll dream on
Tennessee's eyes orange once blue
Tennessee's gone and I get low
Tennessee's gone and I get low

Wet through the desert soaked to the skin
Gasoline I wear loose lines I kick
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Take those pills and now she'll dream on
Tennessee's eyes orange once blue
Tennessee's gone and I get low
Tennessee's gone and I get low

And my heart's f**king gutted
And my money's on ice
And my money is running out
And my money is running out
And my money is running out

They'd never beat that deeper in
Cos I want her and she wants him
Wet through the desert soaked to the skin
(I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you)
Gasoline I wear loose lines I kick
(I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you)

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THE CONVALESCENT
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

My bedroom wall recalls what's in my head
A collage constructed and constantly fed
Goya mixes Picasso but it's hardly Spain
Look through the window, pissing down with rain

Lovely labradors outnumber musicians
Bonnie and Clyde have made their good intentions
Pity poor Payne Stewart in a death bubble
But what a swing and so much bottle

So I convalesce and I ease the stress
Cos DNA means does not accept
So I convalesce and I ease the stress
Cos DNA means does not accept

Kleenex kitchen towels and teletext TV
My favourite inventions of the twentieth century
Haile Gebreselassie looks so sweet and young
Eyes quickly shift to Jack Kevorkian

Uneven and tidal all with exit policies
Followed by anti-ballistic migraines
And Brian Warner has a tasty little ass
Scared of cash machines and the Mardi Gras

So I convalesce and I ease the stress
Cos DNA means does not accept
So I convalesce and I ease the stress
Cos DNA means does not accept

Alberto Juanterino unique in his field
These are the things that make you feel
Klaus Kinski with love off Werner Herzog
Scream until the war is over
Scream until the war is over

Srebrenica cousin of Treblinka
Scream until the war is over
And Dante's Inferno slides into dismorphia
So scream until the war is over

So I convalesce and I ease the stress
Cos DNA means does not accept
So I rehabilitate and get my body straight
Cos nothing fits like it used to fit

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THE DROWNERS
SINGLE : REVOL
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

Won't someone give me a gun
Oh well it's for my brother
He writes the long line right down my spine
Oh do you believe in love

Slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, so we drown, stop taking me over

Will someone give me some fun
As the skin flies around us
We kiss in his room to a popular tune
Oh real drowners

So slow down, slow down, stop taking me over
And so we drown, so we drown
Stop taking me over

And so we drown, so we drown
Stop taking me over
And so we drown, so we drown
Stop taking me over
Stop taking me over
You're taking me over
You're taking me over

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THE EVERLASTING
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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 care
I don't believe in it anymore
Pathetic acts for a worthless cause

In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine

But now unforgiven, the everlasting
Everlasting...

The world is full of refugees
They're just like you and just like me
But as people we have a choice
To end the void with all its force
So don't forget or don't pretend
It's all the same now in the end
It was set in a different life
Destroys my days and haunts my nights

In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine

But now unforgiven, the everlasting
Everlasting...

In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine

But now unforgiven, the everlasting
Everlasting...

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THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE GOD
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

There 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 that wanted to be God
I am the girl that wanted to be God

There are times when you feel hopeless
Just for once for no-one else we are blameless
The dawn is still breaking its heaven is so high
She told the truth, told the truth and then she lied

I am the girl that wanted to be God
I am the girl that wanted to be God

Hold me she said love me to death

I am the girl that wanted to be God...

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THE INTENSE HUMMING OF EVIL
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

"The court has come / The court of the Nations / And into the courtroom will come The martyrs of Majdanek and Oswiecim / From the ditch of Kerch the dead will rise / They will rise from the graves / They will rise from the flames / Bringing with them the acrid smoke / And the deathly odour of scorched and martyred Europe / And the children, they too will come / Stern and merciless / The butchers had no pity on them / Now the victims will judge the butchers / Today the tear of a child is the judge / The grief of a mother is the prosecutor"

You were what you were
Clean cut and unbecoming
Recreation for the masses
You always mistook fists for flowers

Welcome welcome
Soldier smiling
Funeral march for agony's last edge

6 million screaming souls
Maybe misery, maybe nothing at all
Lives that wouldn't have changed a thing
Never counted, never mattered, never be

Arbeit macht frei
Transport of invalids
Hartheim Castle breathes us in
In block 5 we worship malaria
Lagerstrasse, poplar trees
Beauty lost, dignity gone
Rascher surveys us butcher bacteria

Welcome welcome soldier smiling
Soon infected, nails broken, hunger's a word

6 million screaming souls
Maybe misery, maybe nothing at all
Lives that wouldn't have changed a thing
Never counted, never mattered, never be

Drink it away, every tear is false
Churchill no different
Wished the workers bled to a machine

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THE LOVE OF RICHARD NIXON
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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
death without assassination
the love of richard nixon
yeah, they all betrayed you
the love of richard nixon
death without assassination
yeah, they all betrayed you
yeah, and your country too

love built around the sandy beaches
love rains down like vietnam's leeches
richard III in the white house
cowering behind divided curtains
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
death without assassination
the love of richard nixon
yeah, they all betrayed you
the love of richard nixon
death without assassination
yeah, they all betrayed you
yeah, and your country too

the love of richard nixon
death without assassination
the love of richard nixon
yeah, they all betrayed you
people forget china
and your war on cancer
yeah, they all betrayed you
yeah, and your country too

"in all the decisions i have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the nation / I have never been a quitter"

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THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES
SINGLE : THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES

"The country was founded on the principle That the primary role of government Is to protect property from the majority / And so it remains"

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 giving a reason
When the future is what we believe in

We love the winter
It brings us closer together

So can you hurt us anymore
Can you feel like it was before
Or are you lost forever more
Messed up and dead on alcohol

Hello fond farewell my dears
I hope you hear this nice and clear
Our love is unconditional
Our hate is yours to feed upon

The masses against the classes
I'm tired of giving a reason
When the future is what we believe in

We love the winter
It brings us closer together

The masses against the classes
I'm tired of giving a reason
When we're the only thing left to believe in

We love the winter
It brings us closer together

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown

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THERE BY THE GRACE OF GOD
FROM : GREATEST HITS COMPLIATION : FOREVER DELAYED

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 God

Lay down all your guns
Give them up and then move on
It doesn't mean that you are dead
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 God

And all the drugs in the world...

With grace we will suffer
With grace we shall recover
There by the grace of God
There by the grace of God

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

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THE YEAR OF PURIFICATION
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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

Run away, run away as fast as you can
From anything that needs discipline

The year of purification
The year of
The year of purification
The year of purification

What have I said?
What have I said again?
I regret everything

Moral little shit-kickers
Liberal asinine pricks

Run away, run away as fast as you can
From anything that needs discipline

The year of purification
The year of
The year of purification
The year of purification

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THEME FROM M*A*S*H (SUICIDE IS PAINLESS)
SINGLE : THEME FROM M*A*S*H
ALBUM : NME'S RUBY TRAX COMPLIATION

Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realise and I can see

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

That game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card i'll some day lay [jdb sings: "the losing card of some delay"]
So this is all I have to say

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
I can take or leave it if I please

The sword of time will pierce our skin
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger, watch it burn

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied oh why ask me

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I...

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And you can do the same thing if you please

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THIS IS YESTERDAY
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE

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 will take care of you
I repent, I'm sorry, everything is falling apart
Houses as ruins and gardens as weeds
Why do anything when you can forget everything

And I stare at the sky
And it leaves me blind
I close my eyes
And this is yesterday

I stare at the sky
And it leaves me blind
I close my eyes
And this is yesterday

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TO REPEL GHOSTS
ALBUM : LIFEBLOOD

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...

So when the ghosts find you
Be careful but be graceful
For all will be revealed
When ghosts become set free

A soul in pain Has no image to reclaim

To repel ghosts
To repel ghosts

A soul in pain Has no image to reclaim

To repel ghosts
To repel ghosts

Build bridges and not roads
Make love, make hate, make war

A soul in pain Has no image to reclaim

To repel ghosts
To repel ghosts

A soul in pain Has no image to reclaim

To repel ghosts
To repel ghosts

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TOO COLD HERE

Born in burial gowns, recessing slowly
You soon wish you couldn't see at all
Tortured in the mind, six voices alone
Futile gestures, emotionless groans

Everyone asks what's wrong but what's right
And a cute lie makes everything uptight
To kill your dream before it's considered
To live in silence, airless closet, no vision

It's easier to make love to a stranger
Than to ask a friend to call
Suspicion knows nothing
And is known for not much at all
Much at all

Too cold here
Ten years of bleeding inside
Always look for walls
To lean beside

Too cold here
Ten years of bleeding its eyes
Always look for shade
To cover your eyes

Self-pity yourself is so shallow
I'm so sick in mind and body, heart cold as stone
Whiskey mac aroma, peace of mind
Hello Mr Samson, you can clean my soul

Wake up sighing mass for the bleeding
Never share sadness, mine, no man prays painless
Coalescing, mine are hidden rooms
Cannot give anything, I never could

Prison, it's only four walls but sometimes
The mind is the smallest prison of all
Offering there upon offering
As a ball with a touch feels through its fall
Through its fall

Too cold here
Ten years of bleeding inside
Always look for walls
To lean beside

Too cold here
Ten years of bleeding its eyes
Always look for shade
To cover your eyes

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TRAIN IN VAIN
SINGLE : YOUR STOLE THE SUN FROM MY HEART
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

You say you stand by your man
So tell me something I don't understand
You said you love me and that's a fact
Then you left me, said you felt trapped

Well some things you can explain away
But this heartache still remains this day

Did you stand by me
Did you stand by me
No way

All the times
When we were close
I'll remember these things the most
I see all my dreams come tumbling down
I can't be happy without you around

So alone I keep the wolves at bay
And there is only one thing I can say

Did you stand by me
Did you stand by me
No way

You must explain why this must be
Did you lie when you spoke to me

Did you stand by me

Now I got a job
But it don't pay
I need new clothes
I need somewhere to stay
But without all these things I can do
But without your love I won't make it through

But you don't seem to see my point of view
I suppose there's nothing I can do

Did you stand by me
Did you stand by me
No way

You must explain why this must be
Did you lie when you spoke to me?

Did you stand by me
Did you stand by me
No way

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TSUNAMI
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

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
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Can't speak, can't think, won't talk, won't walk

The doctors tell me that I'm cynical
I tell them that it must be chemical
So what am I doing girl
Cry into my drink I disappear

Eyes for teeth grating over me
Bring down the shadows of my mind
Sleep and breathe under our sheets
Inhale the anxiety in between, in between, in between, in between

Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me...

Through September under the weather

In between, in between, in between, in between

Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me...

Take the G.I.'s I will have the spies

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UK CHANNEL BOREDOM
SINGLE : UK CHANNEL BOREDOM

"I think it's disgusting the way This government is treating people who can't Vitally live in this English country of ours / I think it's absolutely disgusting The way we treat people in this country"

Primary prole MP judge general policeman
Figureheads s**ked in as just another token
Sell your culture and tolerate another
Annihilation in the pursuit of self-love corruption

UK channel boredom
Tune in reception control
UK channel boredom
Underclass coma zone

Don't pacify your life to suit dead law convention
White trash held up as just more gold chain icons
State fed lies charm empty eyes
Happy thought's a unity death smile of acceptance

UK channel boredom
Mainline's on a death fix
UK channel boredom
You bleed the thought of throwing bricks

Europa kid realise your thoughts
Kill all ruling class laws

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UNDER MY WHEELS
SINGLE : MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS
ALBUM : GENERATIONS TERRORISTS

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
Anticipating fun

I'm driving right up to you babe
I guess you couldn't see
I got you under my wheels honey
Why can't you let me be

And when you callde me on the telephone
And said "Take me to the show"
I said "Honey, I just can't go
Baby, I can't leave my home"

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
I got you under my wheels
I got you under my wheels...

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
Anticipating fun

I'm driving right up to you babe
I guess you couldn't see
I got you under my wheels honey
Why can't you let me be

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
Anticipating fun

I'm driving right up to you babe
I guess you couldn't see
I got you under my wheels honey
I got you under my wheels...

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UNSTOPPABLE SAVATION
SINGLE : THERE BY THE GRACE OF

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 salvation in these words
There is unstoppable salvation to be heard
It is unstoppable
It echoes through the years
There is unstoppable salvation in these words

Carries us together
Carries us forever
Forever
Forever...

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US AGAINST YOU
SINGLE : ROSES IN THE HOSPITAL
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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

So bomb London and its MPs
John Major
Virginia Bottomley
So bomb London and its legislature

Acidic wit beauty and charm
It doesn't take much to twist my arm
Free trip free drink it all goes down so so well

Maybe a Sunday supplement will turn up soon
A documentary on censorship sounds real cool
It's easy to see that I went to public school

So bomb London and its MPs
John Major
Virginia Bottomley
So bomb London and its legislature

So bomb London and its MPs
John Major
Virginia Bottomley
So bomb London and its legislature

So bomb London and its magazines
Time-out, Face and ID
Bomb London its music and its culture

You ain't ever been a racist
But Tyson was guilty man
He was guilty

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VALLEY BOY
SINGLE : THE EVERLASTING
ALBUM : THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS

Here I am in Amsterdam
I like it here they speak my language
Even though it's not my own
It's got BBC for comfort zone

But best of all it's got Marks and Spencer
Equality for the masses never felt better

And some of my dreams
They may have come true
But so have my nightmares
Which I can't get through

And now I've lost the power to speak
And now I've lost the power to eat
Idle and out of touch in Europe

Nothing's gone and nothing's changed
All that was before will still remain
It's too late to learn a new currency

And some of my dreams
They may have come true
But so have my nightmares
Which I can't get through

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VELOCITY GIRL
SINGLE : AUSTRALIA
ALBUM : EVERYTHING MUST GO

Here she comes again
With vodka in her veins
Been playing with the spike
She couldn't get it right

Splendour in silver dress
Velocity possess
The world was hers and then
It fell apart again

I don't need anyone to help me
Don't want anyone at all
Because my so-called friends have left me
And now I don't care at all

Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone

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VOODDOO POLAROIDS
FROM : THE LOVE OF RECHARD NIXON (DVD)
ALBUM : LIFE BLOODvoodoo polaroids

Voodoo Polaroids, That just won't do
Voodoo Polaroids, Stuck on you
Stuck on you
Stuck on you

Voodoo Polaroids, Lethal injection
Voodoo Polaroids, Hanging or stoning
Hanging or stoning
hanging or stoning...

Build more jails
Fill more graves
Build more jails
Fill more graves

Voodoo Polaroids, The electric chair
Voodoo Polaroids, Revenge has no care, has no care...

Voodoo Polaroids, Firing squads
Voodoo Polaroids, Vengeange is god
Vengeance is god
Vengeance is god

Build more jails
Fill more graves
Build more jails
Fill more graves...

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WATTSVILLE BLUES
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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
But I still love the sense of this place
I'm so happy I know I can never leave
Even though my, my brain it f**king bleeds

I got the Wattsville blues
I got nothing to lose now baby
I got the Wattsville blues
I got nothing to lose

Time is going on
And time is killing me
I got the Wattsville blues
I got the Wattsville blues now baby

But I still love the smile on your face
But I still love the everything about this place
I'm so happy I know I can never leave
There's a part of me that will never leave

But I still love
But I still love

But I still love the smile on your face
But I still love the everything about this place
I'm so happy I know I can never leave
Even though my, my brain it f**king bleeds

I got the Wattsville blues
I got nothing to lose now baby
I got the Wattsville blues now baby
Wattsville blues
Wattsville blues

Don't want no friends
Don't want no friends...
Don't want useless f**kers knocking at my door
Poxy f**king assholes following me
Don't you understand that I f**king despise
Every single living organism
dead

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WE ARE ALL BOURGEOIS NOW
ALBUM : KNOW YOUR ENEMY

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 money to spare
He said he would tell me how it is

"The State" he began
"Has been propping up people too long
For far too long

We all got lazy and couldn't be bothered
To make our way through the world

But we are all bourgeois now
Once there was class war
But not any longer
Because baby we are all bourgeois now
So go out and make your way in the world

We're free to choose
We're all free to choose
We're all free to choose
We're free to choose

In booming Britain we all work together
To raise ourselves in the world
Each of us knows someone
Who has done well for themselves
So well for themselves"

"Thank you" I said as I left
I'll be on my way
I see how it is

We are all bourgeois now
And somehow I'll raise myself in the world

I'm free to choose
We're all free to choose
We're all free to choose
I'm free to choose

We're all bourgeois now
We're all bourgeois now
We're bourgeois now

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WE HER MAJESTY' PRISONERS
SINGLE : MOTOWN JUNK
SINGLE : YOU LOVE US
ALBUM : GENERATIONS TERRORISTS

Jewels drip red and I don't sound proud
Treason's ambition I want dead procession
All we got unholy leftovers of a compromise
Leaving us like butterflies trapped in the frost

Right now

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

England's glory lives on in worldwide genocide
So celebrate Buchenwald as her majesty's heir
Now an obsolete face on a currency of illusion
No matter what we own we can't buy freedom

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

Throw myself against you cos you ain't frail
Underneath silk riches six million giving slaves
This needle of religion's gonna rust in my skin
Tear out and exit obedience of created sin

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you baby

Faces pressed at gates of anniversary torture
Without these fake images we'd never bow down
Don't need this history but we still accept
Conscripted into a past that invents our guilt

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

Hello future
You are my lover

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WHAT'S MY NAME
SINGLE : LA TRISTESSE DURERA (SCREAM TO A SIGH)
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

What the hell is wrong with me
I'm not who I'm supposed to be

What's my name
Name
Name

I tried to join a Ping-Pong club
Sign on the door said all full up

What's my name
Name
Name

Here we are in Cambridge now
Are we gonna indulge in the usual clichés
Of dumb class scum
Dumb class war
Yes, for our money

Now I'm round the back of your house at night
Best Sunday suit, are you sleeping tight

What's my name
Name
Name...

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WROTE FOR LUCK
SINGLE : ROSES IN THE HOSPITAL
ALBUM : GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL

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 anything hard
There's nothing else you can do
Oh you can try but you can't chain me
I can slip and stand and bend and roll over
I don't read
I just dance
There's more than one sign
And it's getting less
When you're wet
You're getting drier
You used to speak the truth
But now you're liar
You used to speak the truth
But now you're clever

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 anything hard
There's nothing else you can do
And when you're wet
You're getting drier
You used to speak the truth
But now you're liar
You used to speak the truth
But now you're clever
And when it's hot
You start to melt
Cos you're not made of cheese
You're made of chocolate
And when it's cold
You tend to cry
You keep on piling on
And not put it by

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YES
ALBUM : THE HOLY BIBLE