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Wednesday 27 October 2021

Manic Street Preachers Tribute EP

Motorcycle Emptiness

Culture sucks down words itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
Organise your safe tribal war hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto
Each day living out a lie life sold cheaply forever
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 sucking on air survivals natural as 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
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 shit
Living life like a comatose ego loaded and swallow
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness everlasting nothingness

Slash N' Burn

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
3rd world to the 1st 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
3rd world to the 1st kill to live
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
3rd world to the 1st kill to live
That's all you need that's all you need

4st. 7lbs.

I eat too much to die and not enough to stay alive I'm sitting in the middle waiting
Days since I last 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
Naked and lovely and 5st. 2 may I bud and never flower
My vision is 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 Ryvita
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
4st. 7, an epilogue of youth such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life through staring blankly at my navel

UK Channel Boredom

I think it's disgusting the way this government is treating people who can't basically live in this English country of ours. I think it absolutely disgusting the way we treat people in this country.

Primary prole MP judge general policeman
Figureheads sucked in as just another token
To sell your culture and tolerate another
Annihilation in the pursuit of self-love corruption
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 a unity death smile of acceptance
UK channel boredom mainline on a death fix
UK channel boredom bleed the thought of throwing bricks
Europa kid, realise your thoughts kill all ruling class laws

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 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 a design for life

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
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 will be next
And if you tolerate this then your children 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 will be next
And if you tolerate this then your children 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 will be next
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

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