Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers is an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, f… Read Full Bio ↴Manic Street Preachers is an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as "the Manics", they are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band were originally a quartet: lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards mysteriously vanished on 1 February 1995. He was declared presumed deceased in November 2008.
The Manics released their debut album Generation Terrorists in 1992. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery, outspoken invective and songs about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums retained a politicized and intellectual lyrical style, while adopting a broader alternative rock sound. Enigmatic lyricist Richey Edwards gained early notoriety by carving the words "4 REAL" into his arm with a razor blade (narrowly missing an artery and requiring seventeen stitches) in response to the suggestion that the band were less than authentic. The dark nature of 1994's The Holy Bible reflected the culmination of Edwards' instability.
Following Edwards' disappearance, Bradfield, Moore, and Wire persisted with the Manic Street Preachers and went on to gain critical and commercial success, becoming one of Britain's premier rock bands. They have had eight top ten albums and fifteen top ten singles. They have reached number one three times, with their 1998 album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and the singles "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) and "The Masses Against The Classes" (2000). The Masses Against The Classes Songfacts reports that the latter was the first UK #1 of 2000. They have also won the Best British Album and Best British Group accolades at the BRIT Awards in 1997 and 1999, and were lauded by the NME for their lifetime achievements in 2008. Their ninth studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers, was released on 18th May 2009 and features lyrics Edwards had left behind to the band weeks before his disappearance.
They came together in 1986, when James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore and rhythm guitarist Flicker formed Betty Blue in the small South Wales town of Blackwood. Two years later, Flicker had left and Nicky's friend Richey Edwards (previously the group's driver) joined in his place. Richey would later say in Vox magazine, "If you built a museum to represent Blackwood, all you could put in it would be shit. We used to meet by this opening called Pen-y-Fan. It was built when the mines closed down but now the water has turned green and slimy. They put 2,000 fish in it, but they died. There's a whirlpool in the middle where about two people die every year". A bleak image, then, but it provided the necessary fuel to drive the band.
Inspired by the passion of The Clash, and moved by Thatcher's suppression of the miners, the band's lyrics exploded with politicised anger. Their first single, the self-financed Suicide Alley, didn't make great waves, and the band moved to London. There, they found a sympathetic character in the form of Bob Stanley: later a member of St Etienne, but then a freelancer for the Melody Maker.
Stanley released a collection of their demos as the New Art Riot EP in June 1990. It caught the attention of Philip Hall, who became their publicist and co-manager.
In early 1991 Heavenly released Motown Junk, an inspired three-minute punk blast. Later that year it was followed by You Love Us, a swaggering, arrogant self-regarding slice of brilliance.
The Manics paved the way for a resurgence of guitar bands in Wales. In the press, they were forced to live with punning headlines referring to sheep, boyos and leeks - they got all the clichés out of the way so the bands of the so-called Cool Cymru would be taken more seriously.
Yet their image often overshadowed the music. On 15 May 1991 came a turning point for the Manics. Following a gig at Norwich Arts Centre, Steve Lamacq, then writing for the NME, argued with the band that they were a cartoon band - not real punks. The band refuted this, but still Lamacq persisted. Frustrated, Richey Edwards took a razor and calmly carved the words 4 REAL into his forearm. Lamacq was horrified; Richey needed 17 stitches. Six days later the Manics signed to Sony. Richey had suffered from depression for many years, and self-mutilation had become increasingly common for him. But the Norwich incident was the first time the guitarist had aired his emotional problems in public.
In February 1992 the debut album Generation Terrorists was released. Heavily influenced by Appetite For Destruction, Richey said of it, "We wanted to sign to the biggest record label in the world, put out a debut album that would sell 20 million, and then break up. Get massive and then just throw it all away". The album sold 250,000 copies worldwide. Predictably they didn't split up, but the album polarised opinion between those that saw them as the new saviours of rock and roll, and detractors who considered them contrived and insincere. Not that the Manics cared: they were off on their first American tour, shortly after the LA riots, and singles such as Slash 'N' Burn and Motorcycle Emptiness were climbing up the charts.
The second Manics album was released in June 1993. Gold Against The Soul was overproduced and less passionate, but did contain the classic songs La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) and From Despair To Where. However, they also chose to support Bon Jovi for a string of unwise live dates. The troubles continued with the death on 7 December 1993 of their mentor Philip Hall, who had been battling cancer for two years. Meanwhile, Richey's problems were worsening. Weighing less than six stone and subjecting his body to drinking and cutting binges, he was eventually admitted to the Priory in Roehampton.
Richey's despair was documented in what is now considered the Manics' masterpiece, 1994's 'The Holy Bible'. Unremittingly bleak, the opening song Yes contained the lines "I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you / Puking, shaking, sinking / Can't shout, can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out". The song was about prostitution, but every line emanated from Richey's fragile state of mind. He rejoined the band for tours with Therapy? and Suede (and an early incarnation of Vitriol I.D.) in Europe, and a series of frantic shows at the London Astoria in December. The final night saw them destroying 10,000 worth of their equipment. "We'll never be that good again," said Nicky after the event. It was also their last live appearance as a four-piece.
Although they had never found transatlantic success, at the beginning of 1995 they were preparing to give America one last try. However, on 1 February Richey walked out of the Embassy hotel in London and never returned. His passport and money were found in his Cardiff Bay flat, and two weeks later his car was discovered beside the Severn Bridge - a notorious local suicide spot. The file on his disappearance remains open.
"We decided to carry on in April," said Nicky Wire in The Guardian, "after two months of waiting by the phone and feeling ill and exhausted. We thought we'd been so close, and in the end we couldn't do anything for him." September saw the band record a cover of Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head for the War Child "Help" album, and by January 1996 the Manics were recording their comeback album 'Everything Must Go'. It was released on 20 May to critical acclaim, went double platinum and yielded four top ten singles: 'A Design For Life', the title track, 'Kevin Carter' and 'Australia'. The sound represents a cross between the heavy rock of 'Gold Against The Soul' and a new, less agressive, almost Britpop like sound.
Two Brit Awards later, they released the LP This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours which gave the band their first number one single in If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, perhaps the only song that references the Spanish Civil War to ever appear on Top of the Pops.
On December 31st 1999 the band said goodbye to the 20th Century with a gig at Cardiff Millennium Stadium, attended by upwards of 50,000 people. This was followed by their second number one single, The Masses Against The Classes, which hit the top spot despite not having a video or marketing support from their record company.
Shortly afterwards, Nicky stated that "the fourth era of the Manics is beginning".
The fourth era, so far, has involved an audience with Fidel Castro in Cuba, the 2001 album Know Your Enemy, and continuing success. Their long awaited greatest hits collection, Forever Delayed, appeared in October 2002, followed in 2003 by Lipstick Traces, a two-disc collection of covers, B-sides, and outtakes including the last song recorded with Richey, 'Judge Yr'self'.
The Manics returned in November 2004 with the more reflective Lifeblood, which featured the singles The Love Of Richard Nixon and Empty Souls, both of which went straight in at number two in the charts.
Not to rest on their laurels, the band released a 10th anniversary edition of The Holy Bible in December 2004 which included a digitally remastered version of the original album, a never before heard U.S mix and a DVD of live performances and extras.
In April 2005 the Manics released a limited 3 track E.P. titled God Save The Manics as a free download but with hard copies distributed also without cost at the final date of their small, intimate 'Past Present and Future' tour at Hammersmith Apollo, London - their last show before a two year hiatus.
Later that year the band contributed the new track Leviathan to September's War Child charity album Help: A Day in the Life, becoming one of the few bands to contribute tracks to both albums.
2006 saw both James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire releasing solo albums, The Great Western and I Killed the Zeitgeist respectively. But both insisted that this in no way meant an end to the Manics and in December the band headlined XFM's Winter Wonderland gig in Manchester.
2007 sees the band enter yet another era with their 8th studio album, Send Away The Tigers, which was released on May 7th.
The album Journal For Plague Lovers was released in May 2009 and features lyrics left to the band by Richey before he disappeared. They released several different versions of the album, including a special edition, which has a book featuring copies of the original typed lyrics and pictures that went with them, and a bonus disc with all the original demos, recorded at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, which they say is one of their favourite studios.
Their 10th studio album, Postcards from a Young Man, was released in September 2010. The album features several guest artists: Duff McKagan on A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun, John Cale on Auto-Intoxication and Ian McCulloch on Some Kind of Nothingness. A deluxe edition was also released containing a bonus disc with the original demos on it.
In 2011 the band released their second compilation National Treasures- The Complete Singles Collection, a release preceded by new single This Is The Day a cover of a ´¨The The song. The collection featured every single released since and including Motown Junk.
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The Manics released their debut album Generation Terrorists in 1992. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery, outspoken invective and songs about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums retained a politicized and intellectual lyrical style, while adopting a broader alternative rock sound. Enigmatic lyricist Richey Edwards gained early notoriety by carving the words "4 REAL" into his arm with a razor blade (narrowly missing an artery and requiring seventeen stitches) in response to the suggestion that the band were less than authentic. The dark nature of 1994's The Holy Bible reflected the culmination of Edwards' instability.
Following Edwards' disappearance, Bradfield, Moore, and Wire persisted with the Manic Street Preachers and went on to gain critical and commercial success, becoming one of Britain's premier rock bands. They have had eight top ten albums and fifteen top ten singles. They have reached number one three times, with their 1998 album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and the singles "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) and "The Masses Against The Classes" (2000). The Masses Against The Classes Songfacts reports that the latter was the first UK #1 of 2000. They have also won the Best British Album and Best British Group accolades at the BRIT Awards in 1997 and 1999, and were lauded by the NME for their lifetime achievements in 2008. Their ninth studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers, was released on 18th May 2009 and features lyrics Edwards had left behind to the band weeks before his disappearance.
They came together in 1986, when James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore and rhythm guitarist Flicker formed Betty Blue in the small South Wales town of Blackwood. Two years later, Flicker had left and Nicky's friend Richey Edwards (previously the group's driver) joined in his place. Richey would later say in Vox magazine, "If you built a museum to represent Blackwood, all you could put in it would be shit. We used to meet by this opening called Pen-y-Fan. It was built when the mines closed down but now the water has turned green and slimy. They put 2,000 fish in it, but they died. There's a whirlpool in the middle where about two people die every year". A bleak image, then, but it provided the necessary fuel to drive the band.
Inspired by the passion of The Clash, and moved by Thatcher's suppression of the miners, the band's lyrics exploded with politicised anger. Their first single, the self-financed Suicide Alley, didn't make great waves, and the band moved to London. There, they found a sympathetic character in the form of Bob Stanley: later a member of St Etienne, but then a freelancer for the Melody Maker.
Stanley released a collection of their demos as the New Art Riot EP in June 1990. It caught the attention of Philip Hall, who became their publicist and co-manager.
In early 1991 Heavenly released Motown Junk, an inspired three-minute punk blast. Later that year it was followed by You Love Us, a swaggering, arrogant self-regarding slice of brilliance.
The Manics paved the way for a resurgence of guitar bands in Wales. In the press, they were forced to live with punning headlines referring to sheep, boyos and leeks - they got all the clichés out of the way so the bands of the so-called Cool Cymru would be taken more seriously.
Yet their image often overshadowed the music. On 15 May 1991 came a turning point for the Manics. Following a gig at Norwich Arts Centre, Steve Lamacq, then writing for the NME, argued with the band that they were a cartoon band - not real punks. The band refuted this, but still Lamacq persisted. Frustrated, Richey Edwards took a razor and calmly carved the words 4 REAL into his forearm. Lamacq was horrified; Richey needed 17 stitches. Six days later the Manics signed to Sony. Richey had suffered from depression for many years, and self-mutilation had become increasingly common for him. But the Norwich incident was the first time the guitarist had aired his emotional problems in public.
In February 1992 the debut album Generation Terrorists was released. Heavily influenced by Appetite For Destruction, Richey said of it, "We wanted to sign to the biggest record label in the world, put out a debut album that would sell 20 million, and then break up. Get massive and then just throw it all away". The album sold 250,000 copies worldwide. Predictably they didn't split up, but the album polarised opinion between those that saw them as the new saviours of rock and roll, and detractors who considered them contrived and insincere. Not that the Manics cared: they were off on their first American tour, shortly after the LA riots, and singles such as Slash 'N' Burn and Motorcycle Emptiness were climbing up the charts.
The second Manics album was released in June 1993. Gold Against The Soul was overproduced and less passionate, but did contain the classic songs La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) and From Despair To Where. However, they also chose to support Bon Jovi for a string of unwise live dates. The troubles continued with the death on 7 December 1993 of their mentor Philip Hall, who had been battling cancer for two years. Meanwhile, Richey's problems were worsening. Weighing less than six stone and subjecting his body to drinking and cutting binges, he was eventually admitted to the Priory in Roehampton.
Richey's despair was documented in what is now considered the Manics' masterpiece, 1994's 'The Holy Bible'. Unremittingly bleak, the opening song Yes contained the lines "I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you / Puking, shaking, sinking / Can't shout, can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out". The song was about prostitution, but every line emanated from Richey's fragile state of mind. He rejoined the band for tours with Therapy? and Suede (and an early incarnation of Vitriol I.D.) in Europe, and a series of frantic shows at the London Astoria in December. The final night saw them destroying 10,000 worth of their equipment. "We'll never be that good again," said Nicky after the event. It was also their last live appearance as a four-piece.
Although they had never found transatlantic success, at the beginning of 1995 they were preparing to give America one last try. However, on 1 February Richey walked out of the Embassy hotel in London and never returned. His passport and money were found in his Cardiff Bay flat, and two weeks later his car was discovered beside the Severn Bridge - a notorious local suicide spot. The file on his disappearance remains open.
"We decided to carry on in April," said Nicky Wire in The Guardian, "after two months of waiting by the phone and feeling ill and exhausted. We thought we'd been so close, and in the end we couldn't do anything for him." September saw the band record a cover of Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head for the War Child "Help" album, and by January 1996 the Manics were recording their comeback album 'Everything Must Go'. It was released on 20 May to critical acclaim, went double platinum and yielded four top ten singles: 'A Design For Life', the title track, 'Kevin Carter' and 'Australia'. The sound represents a cross between the heavy rock of 'Gold Against The Soul' and a new, less agressive, almost Britpop like sound.
Two Brit Awards later, they released the LP This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours which gave the band their first number one single in If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, perhaps the only song that references the Spanish Civil War to ever appear on Top of the Pops.
On December 31st 1999 the band said goodbye to the 20th Century with a gig at Cardiff Millennium Stadium, attended by upwards of 50,000 people. This was followed by their second number one single, The Masses Against The Classes, which hit the top spot despite not having a video or marketing support from their record company.
Shortly afterwards, Nicky stated that "the fourth era of the Manics is beginning".
The fourth era, so far, has involved an audience with Fidel Castro in Cuba, the 2001 album Know Your Enemy, and continuing success. Their long awaited greatest hits collection, Forever Delayed, appeared in October 2002, followed in 2003 by Lipstick Traces, a two-disc collection of covers, B-sides, and outtakes including the last song recorded with Richey, 'Judge Yr'self'.
The Manics returned in November 2004 with the more reflective Lifeblood, which featured the singles The Love Of Richard Nixon and Empty Souls, both of which went straight in at number two in the charts.
Not to rest on their laurels, the band released a 10th anniversary edition of The Holy Bible in December 2004 which included a digitally remastered version of the original album, a never before heard U.S mix and a DVD of live performances and extras.
In April 2005 the Manics released a limited 3 track E.P. titled God Save The Manics as a free download but with hard copies distributed also without cost at the final date of their small, intimate 'Past Present and Future' tour at Hammersmith Apollo, London - their last show before a two year hiatus.
Later that year the band contributed the new track Leviathan to September's War Child charity album Help: A Day in the Life, becoming one of the few bands to contribute tracks to both albums.
2006 saw both James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire releasing solo albums, The Great Western and I Killed the Zeitgeist respectively. But both insisted that this in no way meant an end to the Manics and in December the band headlined XFM's Winter Wonderland gig in Manchester.
2007 sees the band enter yet another era with their 8th studio album, Send Away The Tigers, which was released on May 7th.
The album Journal For Plague Lovers was released in May 2009 and features lyrics left to the band by Richey before he disappeared. They released several different versions of the album, including a special edition, which has a book featuring copies of the original typed lyrics and pictures that went with them, and a bonus disc with all the original demos, recorded at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, which they say is one of their favourite studios.
Their 10th studio album, Postcards from a Young Man, was released in September 2010. The album features several guest artists: Duff McKagan on A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun, John Cale on Auto-Intoxication and Ian McCulloch on Some Kind of Nothingness. A deluxe edition was also released containing a bonus disc with the original demos on it.
In 2011 the band released their second compilation National Treasures- The Complete Singles Collection, a release preceded by new single This Is The Day a cover of a ´¨The The song. The collection featured every single released since and including Motown Junk.
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Manic Street Preachers Lyrics
01 Found That Soul Show me a wonder You can be sure of I exist in…
02 Motorcycle Emptiness Culture sucks down words Itemize loathing and feed yourself …
07 Little Baby Nothing No one likes looking at you Your lack of ego…
10.There By The Grace Of God And all the drugs in the world Can't save us from…
16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky You have your very own number They dress your cage in…
1985 In 1985, I placed a bet and lied Losing all that…
21 A Design For Life Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free Wh…
3 Ways To See Despair There are three ways to see despair I've seen them all,…
30-Year War It's the longest running joke in history To kill the workin…
4 Ever Delayed Screaming through the galaxy Trapped in this eternity Strand…
4 Lonely Roads 4 lonely roads The terror it had flown Never led you home 4…
4st 7lb Days since I last pissed Cheeks sunken and despaired So gorg…
A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun We've finally found a way To consume boredom every day We'…
A Design for Life Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What…
A Design for Life (Stealth Sonic Orchestra remix) Libraries gave us power then work came and made us…
A Secret Society It's here, it's a secret, a secret society It's here, it's…
A Song For Departure And all the masks I carry on my face For you,…
A Song for the Sadness Memories are all we leave Fragments of lost melancholy Trace…
Afterending As the flags fall down The statues crack and drown We clap…
Ain't Goin' Down Praying that you'll fall down soon (fall soon) And your guil…
All Is Vanity Haven't shaved for days Keeps the appearance of delay The …
All We Make Is Entertainment I'm no longer preaching to the converted That congregation …
Always / Never Always, never on my mind Always, always out of time Always, …
Anorexic Rodin A beauty in the darkness of your eyes Feel the beauty…
Another Invented Disease Drugs come out of boredom babe U.N. exports it everyday…
Anthem for a Lost Cause It's a cold and lonely message At the end of a…
Archives Of Pain If hospitals cure Then prisons must bring their pain Don't b…
Are Mothers Saints If piss is yellow, then life must be grey How…
Askew Road Askew Road, with charm of napalm A second home, with love…
Australia I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know…
Auto-Intoxication The more I want to be me, the less I…
Automatik Teknicolour A deeply obsessive Suburban militias Tender and blissful Cla…
Autumn Song Wear your eyes as dark as night Paint your face with…
Baby Elian Blockades won't win you more votes A Cuban adjustment act Of…
Baby Elián Blockades won't win you more votes A Cuban Adjustment Act …
Bag Lady I am not dead I demand I know my rights I know…
Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel (spoken) The ballad of the Bangkok novotel (sung) No sc…
Be Natural Been natural for once in my life Now I'll have to…
Been A Son She should have stayed away from friends She should have had…
Behave Yourself Baby Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah Bah bah…
Being Baptised I can close my eyes Go back to the start and…
Between the Clock and the Bed I'm well aware of happiness And what it takes to get…
Black Dog On My Shoulder There's a black dog on my shoulder again Licking my neck…
Black Garden There's a little part of me There's a little part of…
Black Holes for the Young Lots of sun for you young boy Lots of sun for…
Black Square Let us overcome our endless progress "Art is never modern, …
Blank Diary Entry In a garden full of locusts Pain was a crying man Wrapped…
Blistered Mirrors Blistered mirrors Distance lingers Broken fingers Bandage…
Borderline Something in the way you love me won't let me…
Bored Out of My Mind I'm, I'm feeling too awake I'm, I'm tired of what I…
Born A Girl Do I look good for you tonight? Will you accuse me…
Born to End Get some pain and I feel alive born to end…
Boxes And Lists Boxes and lists Chained to my skin Burned like a fossil I…
Bright Eyes Written by: batt Is it a kind of dream Floating down on…
Broken Algorithms These are variants of our times Full of mistrust hatred and…
Builder of Routines I've sealed myself in Laminated all of my skin Sellotaped my…
Buildings for Dead People We build buildings for the dead We build restrooms for the…
Can't Take My Eyes Off You You're just too good to be true I can't take my…
Cardiff Afterlife If the love between us has faded away Left in the…
Charles Windsor Charles Windsor who's at the door At such an hour…
Close My Eyes Close my eyes and then I count to ten Shake some…
Comfort Comes Need someone to nurse me Reach out for the first person…
Complicated Illusions On a street of old bones Dust masquerades as skin Time turns…
Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll Always feeling torn and slow. Love song cull destroy poem. M…
Crucifix Kiss So mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating so there…
Damn Dog Two, three, four I can lick your face I can bite it…
Dead Martyrs Dead martyrs All stigmartys Dead heroes For fear of zeroes …
Dead Passive She's so passive but she's looking good He's so passive but…
Dead Trees And Traffic Islands Paralysis through analysis Yellow moral unclean decay Silenc…
Dead Yankee Drawl Bill and Ted and Wayne's world drawl Just another dull fucki…
Democracy Coma Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought Screa…
Diapause Is this just the beginning Or did I look behind As I…
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? Deliver Daniel, deliver Danie…
Die In The Summertime Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals Colour…
Digital Booklet: Postcards From A Young Man I don't believe in absolutes anymore I'm quite prepared to a…
Distant Colours Say what you want Break my heart a thousand times But it's…
Distractions It's like the great man has written and has said There…
Divine Youth Arms around each other Fate falling in the distance Eyes w…
Dixie Wish I was in the land of cotton There's a man…
Don't Be Evil The lines have all been blurred To the point of no…
Don't Let the Night Divide Us Don't let the night divide us The light will come and…
Donkeys Put some lipstick on At least your lies will be pretty A…
Door To The River I'm losing all my innocence Door to the river I know I've…
Doors Closing Slowly Realize how lonely this is Self-defeating, oh, fuck, yeah Dr…
Drug Drug Druggy So much fun to be had in my head No more…
Dying Breeds Dying breeds Show some sympathy Get down on your knees An…
Dylan & Caitlin The blank page awaits Love has deserted and made A fool and…
Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier [Repeat: x2] 20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade Fake royalty…
Emily Emily, Emily your gift to me Emily, a modern sense of…
Empty Motorcade I am riding with the empty motorcade All the politicians ha…
Empty Souls Empty souls will leave their homes To find a place…
Enola / Alone The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on the tv 100%…
Epicentre We use ourselves like politicians For all the money and ind…
Europa Geht Durch Mich Europe had a language problem The German roads, they gave m…
Everlasting The gap that grows between our lives The gap our…
Everything Must Go Shed some skin for the fear within Is starting to hurt…
Facing Page Here I am, rise and shine Way down of course I…
Faster I hate purity I hate goodness I don't want virtue to exist…
Firefight Tonight we watch the burning cars shining bright Was it…
First Republic You are so alone in Kensington palace We should be content…
FIrst Repulic You are so alone in Kensington Palace We should be…
Forever Delayed Screaming through the galaxy Trapped in this eternity Stra…
Found That Soul Show me a wonder You can be sure of I exist in…
Fragments Strung out eyes as cold as worship Two minutes silence in…
Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Liberty, sweet liberty Charitable respectability Then paci…
From Despair to Where I write this alone on my bed I've poisoned every room…
Further Away The further away I get from you The harder it gets…
Futurology Defenders of the faith With cruel hearts they make You sca…
Generation Terrorists Find your faith in your cocaine The only god I need…
Glasnost When did life get so, get so complicated When did time…
Gold Against the Soul Somebody told me to vote Conservative Tragedy is not known u…
Golden Platitudes The platitudes they all dissolved They got too deep, got too…
Groundhog Days Waking up again To the same old thing To the same old…
Hanging On Hold me down I don't ever want to see the day When…
Happy Bored Alone I was singing to a troubled sky She only shines with…
Happy Ending We've had a share of glory We've had our day in…
Hazelton Avenue The modern world sits so easily A different kind of honesty …
Heaven I walk between the dividing lines I dance around the exit…
Heyday Of The Blood Seek the opposition For they are your best friends Enemies t…
Hibernation I got married cos you should We both knew we…
His Last Painting The nothing in me The apostle in me No interpretation For th…
Hold Me Like a Heaven I walk between the dividing lines I dance around the exit…
I Am Just A Patsy I am just a patsy The Oswald in Lee Harvey Made of…
I Know The Numbers To all the people who've hurt me To all the life…
I Live to Fall Asleep I live to fall asleep It's when I stop the hate I…
I m Not Working Petrified for the millionth time Slowly my soul evaporates N…
I Think I Found It I think I've found it And I think I love it Buried…
I'm Just a Patsy I am just a patsy The Oswald in Lee Harvey Made of…
I'm Leaving You For Solitude I'm leaving you for solitude I left myself so long ago I'm…
I'm Not Working Petrified for the millionth time Slowly my soul evaporates N…
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If you tolerate this your... The future teaches you to be alone The present to be…
If You Tolerate This.... The future teaches you to be alone The present to be…
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit Images of perfection, suntan and napalm Grenada, Haiti, Pol…
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Im Not Working Petrified for the millionth time Slowly my soul evaporates N…
Imperial Bodybags Imperial bodybags, coming home in dribs and drabs Life is nu…
In Eternity I fell in love, in love with you a million…
Indian Summer If God persists, persists in saying yes I guess we'll have,…
Interiors Who sees the interiors like young Willem once did Your beaut…
International Blue You wrote your autograph on the far side of the…
Into the Waves of Love I don't know what it is that I believe in But…
Intravenous Agnostic Into a vein exhibit the derelict A secular mosaic distracted…
Intravenous Agnostic Acoustic Into a vein exhibit the derelict A secular mosaic distracte…
It's All Gone Sleep the only thing to fill these holes Even if that…
It's So Easy I see your sister in her Sunday dress She's out to…
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question If a married…
Journal For Plague Lovers Pretend prayer Pretend care Makes everything seem so fair Th…
Judge Yourself Blessed be the blade Blessed be the scythe Dionysus, here to…
Judge Yr'self Blessed be the blades Blessed be the sighs Dionysus against …
Just A Kid Afraid of the sun So afraid of the sky Touch it and…
just can't be happy Standing in your _ of a dress, With your shoulders bare…
Just the End of Love To feel forgiveness, you gotta forgive Do you see the stars…
Kevin Carter Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize Tribal scars in Technicol…
La Tristesse Durera Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I…
Lady Lazarus Somewhere, on the other side of this wide night and…
Last Christmas Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day…
Last Exit On Yesterday Dance to the valentine anthems that kill Valium veins and ey…
Let Robeson Sing Where are you now? Broken up or still around? The CIA says…
Let's Go To War All the complications All the deviations All the holy edic…
Let's Stay Together One, two I'm, I'm so in love with you Whatever you want…
Leviathan We do also speak politics to you today Leviathan, yeah we…
Life Becoming a Landside Childbirth tears upon her muscle Very first second a scream…
Life Becoming a Landslide Childbirth tears upon her muscle Very first second a screami…
Litany Been at war with myself Since the day I was born Cannot…
Little Baby Nothing No one likes looking at you Your lack of ego…
Liverpool Revisited As I wake to a sunset The light dances on the…
Lost Voices I don't wanna know the person I just wanna know their…
Love Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into ima…
Love Letter To The Future And now is the winter of my discontent If only the…
Love Torn Us Under Heaven's weariness, you're climbing the walls Asleep I day…
Love's Sweet Exile Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into images…
Love-S Sweet Exile Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into ima…
Loves Sweet Exile Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into images…
Love’s Sweet Exile Between the billboard masturbation Across highways of metall…
Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers have never recorded this "song", and …
Marlon J.D He stood like a statue As he was beaten across the…
MASH Through early morning fog I see Visions of the things to…
Masking Tape Black out the whites of all your eyes Give me the…
Masses Against The Classes THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE PRIMARY…
Mausoleum Wherever you go I will be carcass Whatever you see will…
Mayakovsky (I've got blisters on my fingers!) Mayakovsky Mayakovsky…
Me And Stephen Hawking Herman the Bull and Tracey the sheep Transgenic milk contain…
Methadone Pretty Am nothing and should be everything You're methadone pretty,…
Misguided Missile I am a self-obsessed fool Self-centred and bruised I am a …
miss europa Miss Europa disco dancer Feel the drug of your persona Mis…
Miss Europa Disco Dancer Miss Europa disco dancer Feel the drug of your persona Miss …
Montana/Autumn/78 Luddite lover Forgiving father Unhappy forever Live it to wh…
Motorcycle Emptiness Culture sucks down words Itemize loathing and feed yourself …
Motown Junk Never ever wanted to be with you, The only thing you…
Mr Carbohydrate They call me Mr. Carbohydrate It's the only thing I can…
Mr. Carbobhydrate They call me Mr. Carbohydrate It's the only thing I…
Mr. Carbohydrate They call me Mr. Carbohydrate It's the only thing I can…
My Guernica I'm small and I'm tired I'm blurred to bits and wired I'm…
My Litlle Empire My little empire has risen and it sets My little empire…
Nat West Economic forecasts soothe our dereliction Words of euthanas…
Never Want Again I'm feeling sick with alcohol I'm feeling numb with stupid p…
New Art Riot Vintage aromas and vintage ideals, Old men greying to a dyin…
No Jubilees Empty, endless jubilees Reinforce our lost freedom, oh well…
No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me To all the people who've hurt me To all the life…
No Surface All Embarrassed, possessed and so uncivilised Just take a look…
No Surface All Feeling Embarrassed, possessed and so uncivilized Just take a look …
No-One Knows What It's Like to Be Me To all the people who've hurt me To all the life…
Noboby Loved You What's your story baby? No control of what I am saying Winte…
Nostalgic Pushead One two three four five six seven eight I am the…
Ocean Spray "Me totemo utsukushii desu ne Totemo utsukushii me wa shitem…
Of Walking Abortion Life is lead weights, pendulum died Pure or lost, spectator …
Orwellian We live in Orwellian times It feels impossible to pick a…
Out Of Time You don't know what's going on You've been away for far…
P.C.P Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved As long as the rig…
P.C.P. Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved As long as the righ…
Patrick Bateman 'Oh say can you see By the dawn's early light What so…
PCP Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved As long as the rig…
Pedestal I put you on a pedestal I look at you, you're…
Peeled Apples The more I see, the less I scream, The figure eight…
People Give In People get tired People get old People get forgotten People …
Picturesque I would like I would prefer no choice just one…
Postcards from a Young Man I don't believe in absolutes anymore I'm quite prepared to a…
Pretension//Repulsion Sickened and howled, streaked and spurned Plucked, lived, c…
Primitive Painters I just wish my life could be as strange as…
Prologue To History Were we the Kinnock factor Am I talking private sector Do I…
Quest for Ancient Colour I had a very bad dream The main actor in it…
R.P. McMurphy Straight jacket your own beauty Because it's just a breakd…
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head Raindrops keep falling on my head Just like the guy whose…
Razorblade Beat Sweet razorblade start your beat Cut through the mire and sk…
Ready For Drowning "Here's a true story" Said someone to me yesterday Said he'd…
Red Sleeping Beauty I've been sound asleep for twenty years If I'm sound asleep…
Removables Conscience binds you in chains Trail by stone hammer and nai…
Rendition Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition All the emer…
Repeat Repeat After Me Fuck Queen and Country Repeat After Me…
Repeat (Stars and Stripes) (Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield…
Repeat (UK) Repeat After Me Fuck Queen and Country Repeat After Me Death…
Revol Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch Krusc…
Rewind the Film Rewind the film again I'd love to see my joy, my…
Rock & Roll Music Just let me hear some of that rock and roll…
Rock N' Roll Music Always feeling torn and slow Love song cull destroy poem Mis…
Roses in the Hospital Roses in the hospital, Try to pull my fingernails out, Roses…
Royal Correspondent You've been this way since school Dysfunctional, translucent…
Running Out of Fantasy My eco-system is based on hatred My DNA remains untested I h…
S.Y.M.M The subtext of this song I've thought about it for so…
S.Y.M.M. The subtext of this song I've thought about it for so…
Sculpture of Man War censored, no blood on TV Cheap entertainment Sold like…
Send Away The Tigers There's no hope in the colonies So catch yourself a lifeline…
Sepia A framed adolescence steeped in the history of you, Stopping…
Sequels of Forgotten Wars There will be no parades for the likes of us The…
Sex Power Love and Money It reads like a novel within a sigh Its cold, it's…
She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach She'd walk on broken glass for love She thought burnt skin…
She Is Suffering Beauty finds refuge in herself Lovers wrapped inside each ot…
Show Me the Wonder This is no offense But just an invitation A sense of belon…
Slash 'N Burn You need your stars, even killers have prestige. Access to a…
Slash N' Burn You need your stars, even killers have prestige Access to a…
Slash N'Burn You need your stars, even killers have prestige. Access to a…
Sleepflower Morning always seems too stale to justify Lament blossoms, h…
Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky You have your very own number They dress your cage in…
So Dead Learn to sleep through misery Never gonna wake feeling free…
So Why So Sad Things get clear when I feel free When whatever's next, come…
Socialist Serenade What's the point in an education When you have to…
Solitude Sometimes Is Solitude sometimes is The place that I would like to live So…
Some Kind of Nothingness The sky is falling in on you Crushed any happiness you…
Sorrow 16 Cut your hair in front of business men Kill yourself…
Soul Contamination Everyone is staring with the glaze of obsession Interlocking…
Spectators Of Suicide Obedience to the law is free desire Under curfew from neon…
Starlover Paint your lips, things fall apart Flowers of hate caress…
Stay Beautiful Find your faith in your security All broken up at…
Stay With Me Written by: stewart/wood In the morning Don't say you lo…
Still Snowing in Sapporo I'm walking on my own it's 1993 The heavy snow is…
Strip it down Ain't no fun at the government hall, Slicked back injustice …
Suicide Alley I'm going down to suicide alley Cos the air that I…
Suicide Is Painless Through early morning fog I see Visions of the things to…
Symphony of Tourette Stutter stutter says the little boy I want to blow a…
Take The Skinheads Bowling Every day I get up and pray to Jah And he…
Teenage 20/20 I wanna wake to a shot parade of wealth And take…
Tennesse I Get Low (Preachers) one two one two three four They'd never beat …
Tennessee Your dream can never earn enough Ultimate nihilistic love …
The Convalescent My bedroom wall recalls what's in my head A collage construc…
The Descent Will my kingdom disappear and fade away Will sleep overcome…
The Drowners Won't someone give me a gun? Oh, well it's for my…
The Everlasting The gap that grows between our lives The gap our…
The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever Wipe those tears away Keep as still as you can Hold your…
The Girl That Wanted To Be God There are no sunsets just silence You could see that she…
The Intense Humming Of Evil You were what you were Clean cut, unbecoming Recreation for …
The Last Time I Saw Paris Lors de mon dernier voyage à Paris Comme d'habitude la naus…
The Left Behind From an open book to a closed shop Feeling like an…
The Long Goodbye It started with a long goodbye It's finished in the blink…
The Love of Richard Nixon The world on your shoulders The love of your mother The fear…
The Masses Against the Classes THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE PRIMARY…
The Next Jet To Leave Moscow An old jaded commie walking in Red Square With rediffusion …
The Second Great Depression The second great depression Lasted longer than I figured It …
The Secret He Had Missed The sea, your room, your God The interior world you loved Yo…
The Soulmates The soulmates They last the distance They make promises T…
The View From Stow Hill How did this town get so old? The air I breathe…
The Year Of Purification Detoxification Purification The ravaged corner Cold and embi…
Theme from M*A*S*H Through early morning fog I see Visions of the things to…
There By the Grace of God And all the drugs in the world Can't save us from…
This Girl's Got Nothing This girl's got nothing and she wears her heart on…
This Is the Day Do not listen to a word I say Just listen to…
This Joke Sport Severed Loose and guilty and whipped Sterility persecutes and I have…
This Sullen Welsh Heart I don't want my children to grow up like me It's…
To Repel Ghosts When the disappearing begins The ghosts we kept within Can b…
Together Stronger Not since 1958 When Brazil would make our hearts break But n…
Tokyo Skyline Lost on my own in the blazing sun Down through the…
Tolerate The future teaches you to be alone The present to be…
Too Cold Here Born in burial gowns, recessing slowly You soon wish you…
Train In Vain Say you stand by your man Tell me something I don't…
Train in Vain (live) You say, you stand by your man Tell me something, I…
Tsunami For you my dear sister Holding onto me forever Disco…
Umbrella You have my heart And we'll never be worlds apart May be…
Under My Wheels Written By: Bruce/Dunaway/Ezrin The telephone is ringing…
Underdogs This one's for the freaks For you're so beautiful For all th…
Unstoppable Salvation There is unstoppable salvation in this sound There is unsto…
Us Against You We are not your sinners Our voices are for real…
Valley Boy Here I am in Amsterdam I like it here they speak…
Velocity Girl Here she comes again With vodka in her veins Been playing wi…
Virginia State Epileptic Colony They sit around tables rendered dumb Colored sticks of chalk…
Vivian You work these streets with a camera round your neck It's…
Walk Me to the Bridge Driving slowly to the bridge With nothing left that we can…
Wattsville Blues I got the wattsville blues I got nothing to lose now…
We Are All Bourgeois Now There's something wrong somewhere here So through unclean st…
We Her Majesty's Prisoners Jewels drip red and I don't sound proud Treason is ambition…
Welcome To The Dead Zone I feel so bad about myself I feel so bad about…
What's My Name What the hell is wrong with me? I'm not who I…
William Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? I'll be…
William's Last Words Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? I'll be…
Williams Last Words Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? I'll be…
Winterlovers Na na na na na na na na na Winter lovers,…
Winterlovers / Working Class Hero Winter lovers Winter trees The beauty of Dead industry …
Working Class Hero A calloused right hand Holds a shiny gold watch For thirty…
Wrote For Luck I wrote for luck They sent me you I sent for juice They…
Yes You can buy her, you can buy her This one's here,…
You Love Us We are not your sinners Our voices are for real…
You re Tender and You re Tired You're so fragile tonight Been up hurting all night It's n…
You Stole The Sun Drinking water to stay thin Or is it to purify? I love…
You Stole The Sun From My Heart - Drinking water to stay thin Or is it to purify I love…
You're Tender && You're Tired You're so fragile tonight Been up hurting all night It's not…
Your Love Alone Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough When…
Your Love Is Not Enough Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough When…
Your Stole The Sun From My Heart Drinking water to stay thin Or is it to purify I love…
Youre Tender And Youre Tired You're so fragile tonight Been up hurting all night It's not…
Yourself Your ritual everyday A mild shower soak in aftershave Best c…