THIS SECTION OF MANICS.NL CONTAINs information about PHRASES, brandNAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS IN Manic Street Preachers songs or in songs covered and recorded by msp which must BE EXPLAINED OR INTERPRETED IN A HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL OR ARTISTIC CONTEXT.
it does not include words like 'cenotaph', 'acedia' or 'strychnine', which you can find in any dictionary ("READ THE DICTIONARY EVERY DAY."), or 'general knowledge' words like 'calvinist', 'pacifist' or 'agnostic'.
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in yes:
'I 'T' them, 24:7, all year long / Purgatory's circle, drowning here / Someone will always say yes' |
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In drug drug druggy:
'Wanna stay in 666 / where this darkness don't lie' |
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in the masses against the classes:
'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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in nobody loved you:
'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'
and in rendition:
'Rendition, rendition / Blame it on the coalition / all the air miles that i'm missing / I wish we still had Jack Lemmon' |
in kevin carter:
'Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize / Tribal scars in Technicolor / Bang bang club, AK 47 hour' |
in 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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in elvis impersonator: blackpool pier:
'American trilogy in Lancashire pottery / Is so fucking funny, don't you know / [...] / All American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer / All American trilogy - the future's dead, fundamentally' |
In 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' |
In yes:
'Funny place for the social / For the insects to start caring / Just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff' |
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In stay beautiful:
'Destroyed by madness / Anxiety is freedom' |
in the intense humming of evil:
'Arbeit macht frei / Transport of invalids / Hartheim Castle breathes us in'
in a design for life:
'Libraries gave us power / Then work came and made us free / What price now for a shallow piece of dignity' |
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in sculpture of man:
Wills and Harry dressed in drag / Standing over the sodomised body of their mother / Would make a beautiful poster in Athena |
in democracy coma:
'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' |
In royal correspondent:
'Dream of the Daily Mail / It is the Holy Grail / And then the B.B.C. / Your life would be complete'
and in valley boy:
'Here I am in Amsterdam / I like it here they speak my language / Even though it's not my own / It's got B.B.C. for comfort zone' |
in leviathan:
'Reprobates, and MPLA / Patty Hearst, oh, they're all the same / Baader-Meinhof and medusa touch / Leviathan, I am your son' |
in autumnsong:
'Now baby what have you done to your hair / Is it just the same time of year / When you think that you don't really care / Now baby what have you done to your hair' |
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IN kevin carter:
Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize / Tribal scars in Technicolor / Bang bang club AK 47 hour |
in little baby nothing:
'Dress your life in loathing / Breaking your mind with Barbie doll futility' |
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in p.c.p.:
'Ten foot sign in Oxford Street / Be pure, be vigilant, behave / Grey not neon, grey not real / Life bleeds, death is your birthright' |
in she is suffering:
'Beauty finds refuge in herself / Lovers wrapped inside each others lies / Beauty is such a terrible thing / She is suffering yet more than death |
in democracy coma:
'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' |
In freedom of speech won't feed my children:
'Liberty, sweet liberty / Charitable respectability / Then pacifism killed us all / For all the tourists on the Berlin wall' |
In p.c.p.:
'P.C. caresses bigots and big brother / Read Liviticus, learnt censorship / Pro-life equals anti-choice' |
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In ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforoneday it'sworldwould...:
'Big Mac, smack, Phoenix R, please smile y'all / Cuba, Mexico can't cauterize our discipline' |
in the intense humming of evil:
'In block 5 we worship malaria / Lagerstrasse, poplar trees / Beauty lost, dignity gone' |
in 1985:
'In 1985 Orwell was proved right / Torvill and Dean's Bolero / Redundant as a sad Welsh chapel' |
In freedom of speech won't feed my children:
'Bomb the Chinese Embassy / The west is free, oh the west is free / Laugh at the hammer and sickle / It is antique' |
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IN ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforoneday it'sworldwould...:
'Fuck the Brady bill / Fuck the Brady bill' |
in brighton hotel rock (early name of a vision of dead desire) |
In sculpture of man:
'There's more art In a Burger King / Than the British museum today' |
in leviathan:
'Leviathan, yeah we all want one / Obedience, consent, accept death / Brutal, nasty, this life is short / A Damp refusual, you will be caught' |
In sculpture of man:
'There's more art In a Burger King / Than the British museum today' |
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in so why sho 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' |
In sepia:
'And just like the moment / In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film' |
in drug drug druggy:
'Dance like a robot when you're chained at the knee / The CIA say you're all they'll ever need'
and in let robeson sing:
'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'
and in rendition:
'Rendition, rendition / Blame it on the coalition / The CIA will stay invisible / Oh, good god, I sound like a liberal' |
in black dog on my shoulder:
'Like Carlito's Way there are no exit signs' |
in us against you:
'From journalist to video to Channel 4 TV / My life is fulfilled so adequately / I love my dealer and I travel the world' |
in nobody loved you:
'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' |
in rendition:
'Rendition, rendition / Blame it on the coalition / The CIA will stay invisible / Oh, good god, I sound like a liberal' |
in locust valley:
'Famously unknown / Elusive and dismantled / A correspondence school behind / All the world, the darkest glass' |
In charles windsor:
'In the back of an old green Cortina / You're on your way to the guillotine' |
in baby elian:
'Blockades won't win you more votes / A Cuban adjustment act' |
In intravenous agnostic:
'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' |
in royal correspondent:
'Dream of the Daily Mail / It is the Holy Grail / And then the BbC / Your life would be complete' |
In the convalescent:
'Scream until the war is over / And Dante's Inferno slides into dismorphia / So scream until the war is over' |
in another invented disease:
'Daylight bores the sunshine out of me / I need to feel alone amongst the weeds' |
In so why so sad:
'Dependent on above / Searching for the dead sea scrolls / So why, so why so sad' |
in judge yr'self:
'Blessed be the blades / Blessed be the sighs / Dionysus against the cRucified' |
In dead yankee drawl:
'Let's go down to Greenwich Village and desecrate / The Noraid slogans that justify six counties hate / Let's go down Redondo Beach and wax body company / Cos reality for TV is Disney not King, Rodney' |
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In prologue to history:
'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' |
In you love us and you love us (heavenly version):
'You love us like a holocaust / Same PR problem as E.S.T.' |
In prologue to history:
'Remember ethnic cleansing in the highlands / No one says a thing in the middle of En-ger-land' |
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in 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' |
In prologue to history:
'Remember ethnic cleansing in the highlands / No one says a thing in the middle of En-ger-land' |
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In prologue to history:
'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' |
In slash 'n' burn:
'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' |
in us against you:
'So bomb London and its magazines / Time-out, Face and ID / Bomb London its music and its culture' |
in revol:
'Revol revol / Lebensraum / Kulturkampf / Raus raus / fila fila' |
In patrick bateman:
'Genesis, Huey Lewis, Filofax, CD 5 / A backdrop to discuss over expensive wine' |
in album title forever delayed - the greatest hits
and in forever delayed |
IN nostalgic pushead:
'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' |
In ballad of the bangkok novotel:
'Mini sized apples filled with disease / Even the water tastes like tea / On a diet of Gaviscon' |
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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' |
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In ballad of the bangkok novotel:
'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' |
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In freedom of speech won't feed my children:
'Bomb the Chinese Embassy / The west is free, oh the west is free / Laugh at the hammer and sickle / It is antique' |
In the intense humming of evil:
'Arbeit macht frei / Transport of invalids / Hartheim Castle breathes us in / In block 5 we worship malaria' |
in royal correspondent:
'Dream of the Daily Mail / It is the Holy Grail / And then the BBC / Your life would be complete' |
in archives of pain:
'Nail it to the House of Lords / You will be buried in the same box As a killer' |
in methadone pretty:
I am nothing and should be everything / You're methadone pretty, surrender in pity / Intentional destruction germ / Eats your thoughts and make you happy |
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in another invented disease:
'Daylight bores the sunshine out of me / I need to feel alone amongst the weeds / Daylight bores the sunshine out of me' |
in us against you:
'So bomb London and its magazines / Time-out, Face and ID / Bomb London its music and its culture' |
in my guernica:
'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' |
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IN ifwhiteamerica...:
'Fuck the Brady bill / If God made man they say, Sam Colt made him equal' |
in if you tolerate this your children will be next:
'The future teaches you to be alone / The present to be afraid and cold / So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists |
in faster:
'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' |
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in ifwhiteamerica... |
In dead yankee drawl:
'Let's go to Indiana Youth Centre quickly / Tyson's money ain't as free as Junior Kennedy's' |
In soundbite in let robeson sing:
"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" |
in kevin carter:
'The elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head / Machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever' |
In first republic:
'You are so alone / In Kensington Palace / We should be content / In these damp terraces' |
in repeat (uk) and repeat (stars and stripes):
Repeat after me / Fuck queen and country / Repeat after me / Royal Khmer Rouge / Repeat after me / Imitation demi-gods |
In p.c.p.:
King cigarette snuffed out by her midgets, / By her midgets |
IN prologue to history:
'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' |
In 4st7lb:
'Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat / All things I like looking at' |
In the convalescent:
'Kleenex kitchen towels and teletext TV / My favourite inventions of the twentieth century' |
in album title know your enemy |
in revol:
'Revol revol / Lebensraum / Kulturkampf / Raus raus / Fila fila' |
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in socialist serenade:
'Change your name to "New" / Forget the fucking Labour' |
in the intense humming of evil:
'In block 5 we worship malaria / Lagerstrasse, poplar trees / Beauty lost, dignity gone' |
in revol:
'Revol revol / Lebensraum / Kulturkampf / Raus raus / Fila fila' |
in patrick bateman:
'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' |
In born to end:
'Europe freed by McDonalds and Levis - born to end / Can't afford it so I hate it all - born to end' |
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IN a design for life:
'Libraries gave us power / Then work came and made us free' |
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in lipstick traces - a secret history of manic street preachers |
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In p.c.p.:
'P.C. caresses bigots and big brother / Read Liviticus, learnt censorship / Pro-life equals anti-choice' |
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In montana/autumn/78:
'Luddite lover / Forgiving father / Unhappy forever / Live it to where you can' |
IN the convalescent:
'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' |
In valley boy:
'But best of all it's got Marks and Spencer / Equality for the masses never felt better' |
in gold against the soul:
'A 1000 Marlboro deaths ignored everyday / And who gives a shit about sexuality' |
in mausoleum:
'No birds, no birds / The sky is swollen black / And no birds, no birds / Holy mass of dead insects' |
In born to end:
'Europe freed by McDonalds and Levis - born to end / Can't afford it so I hate it all - born to end'
and in slash 'n' burn:
'Worms in the garden more real than a McDonalds / Drain your blood and let the Exxon spill in' |
in love letter to the future:
'It always seems to start like this / Measuring out life in coffee spoons / Moving forward, stuck on dreams / Revisiting another day's pain' |
in leviathan:
'Reprobates, and MPLA / Patty Hearst, oh, they're all the same / Baader Meinhof and medusa touch / Leviathan, I am your son' |
in natwest-barclays-midlands-lloyds:
'Prosperity - Mein Kampf for beginners' |
In faster:
“I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer / I spat out Plath and Pinter. |
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in let robeson sing:
'A giant man with a heavenly voice / MK Ultra turned you paranoid' |
In you love us (early version):
'We won't die of devotion / Understand we can never belong / Throw some acid into the mona lisa's face / Pollute your mineral water with a strychnine taste' |
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in montana/autumn/78 |
in democracy coma:
'Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe / Mother of the free but we just scream' |
in little baby nothing:
'Assassinated beauty / Moths broken up, quenched at last / The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by'
and in removables:
'Never grown preserved gently / A bronze moth dies easily / Unknown to others weak to me / Broken hands never ending' |
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in leviathan:
'Reprobates, and MPLA / Patty Hearst, oh, they're all the same / Baader Meinhof and medusa touch / Leviathan, I am your son' |
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in you stole the sun from my heart:
'But there's no, no real truce with my fury / You don't have to believe me / I love you all the same' |
In dead yankee drawl:
'Let's go down to Greenwich Village and desecrate / The Noraid slogans that justify six counties hate' |
in love letter to the future:
'And now is the winter of my discontent / If only the future could rescue it / Disturb nobody with no answers / All except for the president' |
in gold against the soul:
'Close the pits, sanctify Roy Lynk an OBE / Shareholding a piece of this fucking country' |
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in baby elian:
'Operation Peter Pan / America - The Devil's playground ' |
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in tennessee:
'His pain forces her agony / His heart PMRC / His heart PMRC / The white man is disease / His heart PMRC' |
in you love us:
'Till I see love in statues / Your lessons drill inherited sin / Parliament's a fake life saver / You better wake up and smell the real flavour' |
In underdogs:
'People like you need to fuck / Need to fuck people like me'
Many thanks to Charlotte for this reference. |
In sorrow 16:
'Wearing hate like they wear money / Sucking down vodka, spitting out Perrier, uh-huh' |
In p.c.p.:
'Lawyers before love, surrogate sex / This land bows down to / Yours, unconditional love and hate / Pass the prozac, designer amnesiac' |
In kevin carter:
Hi Time magazine / hi Pulitzer Prize |
In p.c.p.:
'P.C.P., a PC police victory / P.C.P., a PC pyrrhic victory' |
in revol:
'Revol revol / Lebensraum / Kulturkampf / Raus raus / Fila fila' |
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in leviathan:
'Reprobates, and MPLA / Patty Hearst, oh, they're all the same / Baader Meinhof and medusa touch / Leviathan, I am your son' |
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In roses in the hospital:
'Forever ever delayed / (Independence is a game) / Forever ever delayed / (Credibility, I'm yawning) / Forever / Forever / Rudi Rudi Rudi can't fail' |
In 4st7lb:
'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' |
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in sculpture of man:
'World War Three / A Sega dreamland / I'd take a whore to the funeral' |
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In of walking abortion:
'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' |
in baby elian:
'You cannot buy a nation / Not even the Miami mob / We follow a shining path / That you will never destroy' |
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in democracy coma:
'I don't see happy homes but the Belfast wall / In Walkman sounds hear Sony control' |
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in repeat (stars and stripes)
and IN ifwhiteamerica...:
'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)' |
in enola/alone:
'The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on my TV / Hundred percent risk of stepping outside' |
in yes:
'I 'T' them, 24:7, all year long / Purgatory's circle, drowning here / Someone will always say yes' |
In the convalescent:
'Kleenex kitchen towels and teletext TV / My favourite inventions of the twentieth century' |
In prologue to history:
'Check out the Tessas and the pensions / Call my friends and they're alright / So I pray for the safety of the night' |
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in the ballad of the bangkok novotel |
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in album title the holy bible |
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in spectators of suicide:
'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' |
in charles windsor:
'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' |
in tennessee:
'His pain forces her agony / His heart PMRC / His heart PMRC / The white man is disease / His heart PMRC' |
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IN if white america...:
'Conservative say: / There ain't no black in the Union Jack / Democrat say: / There ain't enough white in the stars and stripes' |
in black dog on my shoulder:
'There's a black dog on my shoulder again / Licking my neck and saying she's my friend' |
in send away the tigers:
'There's no hope in the colonies / So catch yourself a lifeline / Things have gone wrong too many times / So catch yourself a slow boat to China' |
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in album title this my truth tell me yours |
in kevin carter:
'Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize / Tribal scars in Technicolor / Bang bang club, AK 47 hour' |
in us against you:
'So bomb London and its magazines / Time-out, Face and ID / Bomb London its music and its culture' |
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in theme from m*a*s*h (suicide is painless):
'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' |
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credited in the sleeve of everything must go [album] |
in your love alone is not enough:
'Trade all your heroes in for ghosts, in for ghosts, in for ghosts / They're always the ones who love you most, love you most, love you most' |
in the intense humming of evil:
'Arbeit macht frei / Transport of invalids / Hartheim Castle breathes us in' |
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in empty souls:
'Exposed to a truth we don't know / Collapsing like the Twin Towers / Falling down like April showers / Colossal endless like a marathon' |
in motorcycle emptiness:
'Under neon loneliness / Motorcycle emptiness / Under neon loneliness / Everlasting nothingness' |
in democracy coma:
'Parliament mother of United Nations / Mother of history's dead son, dead sons / DNA of restriction and law' |
in kevin carter:
'Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize / Vulture stalked white piped lie forever / Wasted your life in black and white' |
in sorrow 16:
'Cut your hair in front of businessmen / Kill yourself and censor health / Destroy words and ignore their truth / Wanna die and have never worked' |
in the love of richard nixon:
'the love of richard nixon / yeah, they all betrayed you / people forget china / and your war on cancer' |
In dead yankee drawl:
'Bill and Ted and Wayne's World drawl / Just another dull fucking bore / Vietnam's cool now and even Superman's believed / Hussein in power as the media war retreats' |
in happy ending:
'We've reached the stars and gutter / Fell from grace and asked for more / Oh this could be / Oh this could be' |
in 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' |
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in the love of richard nixon:
'love built around the sandy beaches / love rains down like vietnam's leeches / richard III in the white house / cowering behind divided curtains' |
in kevin carter:
'Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize / Vulture stalked white piped lie forever / Wasted your life in black and white' |
in of walking abortion:
You've no wounds to show / So wash your car / In your X baseball shoes |
in your love alone is not enough:
'You stole the sun straight from my heart, from my heart, from heart / With no excuses just fell apart, fell apart, fell apart' |
in send away the tigers:
'Loathsome smile, head full of forever's / Will tomorrow bring some perfection / The zoo's been overrun in Baghdad / Tiger's claws still in my back' |
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