Manic Street Preachers Lyrics

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Autumn Song Wear your eyes as dark as night Paint your face with what you like Wear your love like it is mad...

I'm Just A Patsy I am just a patsy The Oswald in Lee Harvey Made of my own misery The footprints of history I...

Imperial Bodybags Imperial bodybags, coming home in dribs and drabs Life is numbers, with doggy tags Filled with h...
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Indian Summer If God persists, persists in saying yes I guess we'll have, we'll have to test ourselves Maybe t...

Rendition Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition All the emeralds that are missing, oh I wish we s...

Second Great Depression The second great depression Lasted longer than I figured It stuck around and lingered Surrounde...

Send Away The Tigers There's no hope in the colonies So catch yourself a lifeline Things have gone wrong too many tim...
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Underdog This one's for the freaks For you're so beautiful For all the devotion Written in your soul ...

Winterlovers Na na na na na na na na na Winter lovers, Winter trees The beauty of, dead industry The stuff...

Working Class Hero (Hidden Track) [John Lennon cover] As soon as your born they make you feel small, By giving you no time inste...

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough Your love alone - is not enough not enough not enough When times get tough they get tough they ge...
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A Vision of Dead Desire Primary prole MP judge general policeman Figureheads sucked in as just another token To sell your ...

Ain't Goin' Down Praying that you'll fall down soon (fall soon) And your guiltless sex will break in two (break in t...

Are Mothers Saints If piss is yellow, then life must be grey How come they smile when we throw it away And if it is a...

Black Garden There's a little part of me There's a little part of you Remember the feeling Of a frozen embryo ...

Black Holes for the Young Lots of sun for you young boy Lots of sun for you today Subsidize the opera forget coal Sit aroun...

Bored Out of My Mind I'm ... I'm feeling too awake I'm ... I'm tired of what I see Everybody's dreaming running for the...

Buildings for Dead People We build buildings for the dead We build restrooms for the sick We build up walls for everything ...

Close My Eyes I close my eyes and then I count to ten Shake some hands and then I feel ashamed I'm in control bu...

Comfort Comes Need someone to nurse me Reach out for the first person I see Comforts the helpless sole vanity C...

Dead Passive She's so passive but she's looking good He's so passive but he's looking good They are together bu...

Dead Trees and Traffic Islands Paralysis through analysis Yellow moral unclean decay Silence begins to help me now The sunshine ...

Dead Yankee Drawl Bill and Ted and Wayne's World drawl Just another dull fucking bore Vietnam's cool now even Superm...

Democracy Coma Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought Screaming comatose with blackboard chalk Si...
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Donkeys Put some lipstick on At least your lies will be pretty A shadow on my face And us donkeys wake up...
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First Republic You are so alone in Kensington Palace We should be content in these damp terraces Thank you for th...

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

Hibernation I got married cos you should We both knew we should You do at our age This stage of our career ...

Last Exit on Yesterday Dance to the valentine, anthems that kill Valium veins and eyes that sink Lying down I want, want ...

Love Torn Us Under Heaven's weariness, you're climbing the walls Asleep I daydreamed I could change it all Running fr...

Montana/Autumn/78 Luddite lover Forgiving father Unhappy forever Live it to where you can Those skies must drive y...

Motown Junk Revolution, revolution, revolution... Never ever wanted to be with you The only thing you gave me w...
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Mr. Carbohydrate They call me Mr. Carbohydrate It's the only thing I can digest Xenophobia or general disinterest ...

Never Want Again I'm feeling sick with alcohol I'm feeling numb with stupid pain I smelt death all around our name ...

New Art Riot Vintage aromas and vintage ideals Old men greying to a dying country's needs Waiting for a knighth...
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No One Knows What It's Like to Be Me To all the people who've hurt me To all the life that has left me To all the longing that lost me ...

Patrick Bateman He's a real cool guy and he's a hero of mine Travis, Rhinehart rolled into one cute son Less than ...

Prologue to History Were we the Kinnock factor Am I talking private sector Do I think I'm Shaun William Ryder Or my f...

RP McMurphy Straight jacket your own beauty Because it's just a breakdown away From the gutter to the jewel A...

Sculpture of Man War censored, no blood on TV Cheap entertainment sold like a new deodorant World War Three, a Sega...

Sepia A framed adolescence steeped in the history of you Stopping the summer once for you Experience is ...

Socalist Serenade What's the point in an education When you have to pay for the privilege? This side of the truth wh...

Sorrow 16 Cut your hair in front of business men Kill yourself and censor health Destroy words and ignore th...

Soul Contamination Everyone is staring with the glaze of obsession Interlocking cartels bypassing the bone The empty ...

Starlover Paint your lips, things fall apart Flowers of hate caress my skin now Spend my time sucked up insi...

Strip it Down Ain't no fun at the government hall Slicked back injustice sits nicely next to smiles Paranoia at ...
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Suicide Alley I'm going down to Suicide Alley 'Cos the air I breathe Tastes better down there I'm going down t...
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Teenage 20/20 I wanna wake to a shot parade of wealth And take a spray can to my useless vote I don't like your ...

The Masses Against the Classes THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE PRIMARY ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT PROPERTY...
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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,...

Us Against You From journalist to video to channel 4 TV my life is fulfilled so adequately I love my dealer and I...

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...

We Her Majesty's Prisoners Jewels drip red and I don't sound proud Treason is ambition I want dead procession All we got unho...

Baby Elian Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Blockades won't win you more vo...

Dead Martyrs Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Dead martyrs All stigmartys Dea...
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Epicentre Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore We use ourselves like politicia...

Found That Soul Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Show me a wonder You can抰 be ...
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Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Liberty, sweet liberty Charitab...
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His Last Painting Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore The nothing in me The apostle i...
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Intravenous Agnostic Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Into a vein exhibit the derelic...
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Let Robeson Sing Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Where are you now? Broken up or...
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Miss Europa Disco Dancer Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Miss Europa disco dancer Feel t...
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My Guernica Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore I'm small and I'm tired I'm blu...

Ocean Spray Lyrics by James Dean Bradfield, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore me-totemo-utsukushi-i...
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Royal Correspondent Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore You've been this way since scho...

So Why So Sad Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Things get clear when I feel fr...
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The Convalescent Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore My bedroom wall recalls what's ...

The Year of Purification Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Detoxification Purification The...

Wattsville Blues Lyrics by Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore I got the Wattsville blues I go...

Drug Drug Druggy Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore So much fun to...
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From Despair to Where Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore I write this a...
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Gold Against the Soul Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Somebody told ...
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La Tritesse Durera Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Life has been ...

Life Becoming A Landslide Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Childbirth tea...
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Nostalgic Pushead Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore I am the rapin...
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Roses in the Hospital Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Roses in the h...
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Sleepflower Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Morning always...
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Symphony of Tourette Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Stutter stutte...
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Yourself Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Your ritual ev...
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Another Invented Disease Drugs come out of boredom babe U.N. exports it everyday Their armies feed the ghetto lame Governm...
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Born to End Get some pain and I feel alive - born to end Close my eyes overdose on hell - born to end Get run ...
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Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll (Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore) Always feeling torn and sl...
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Crucifix Kiss (Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore) so mighty so hegemonic so ...

Damn Dog (Jacob Brackman/Billy Mernit) This is Damn Dog by the Manic street preachers Take one Two, three, ...
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Little Baby Nothing No one likes looking at you Your lack of ego offends male mentality They need your innocence To s...
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Love's Sweet Exile Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into images of state coercion Classified machines ...
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Methadone Pretty (Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore) I am nothing and should be...

Motorcycle Emptiness Culture sucks down words Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles Organise your safe tribal war ...
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Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds Economic forecasts soothe our dereliction Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine Carried away...

Repeat Repeat After Me Fuck Queen and Country Repeat After Me Death Sentence Heritage Repeat After Me ...
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Slash n' Burn You need your stars, even killers have prestige Access to a living you will not see 24 boredom, I'...
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So Dead Learn to sleep through misery Never gonna wake feeling free No one fucks as good as Marilyn Plast...

Spectators Of Suicide (Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore) Obedience to the law is fr...
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Stay Beautiful Find your faith in your security All broken up at seventeen Jam your brain with broken heroes Lov...
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Tennessee Your dream can never earn enough Ultimate nihilistic love Tennessee nights just zip-code love Al...

You Love Us We are not your sinners Our voices are for real We realised and won't be mourned We gonna burn yo...
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4st 7lb Days since I last pissed cheeks sunken and despaired so gorgeous sunk to six stone lose my only r...
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Archives of Pain If hospitals cure then prisons must bring their pain do not be ashamed to slaughter the centre of...
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Die in the Summertime Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals colour my hair but the dye grows out I can't seem...
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Faster I am an architect, they call me a butcher I am a pioneer, they call me primitive I am purity, they...
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Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart Images of perfection, suntan and napalm Grenada - Haiti - Poland - Nicaragua who shall we choose f...

Mausoleum Wherever you go I will be carcass whatever you see will be rotting flesh humanity recovered glitte...
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Of Walking Abortion Life is lead weights, pendulum died pure or lost, spectator or crucified recognised truth acedia's...
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P.C.P. Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore Teacher starve...

Revol Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch Kruschev - self love in his mirrors Brezhn...
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She is Suffering Beauty finds refuge in herself lovers wrapped inside each others lies beauty is such a terrible th...
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The Intense Humming of Evil Lyrics by Richey James and Nicky Wire, music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore You were what ...
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This is Yesterday Do not listen to a word I say just listen to what I can keep silent the only way to gain approval ...
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Yes For sale? dumb cunt's same dumb questions virgin? listen, all virgins are liars honey and I don't ...
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A Design for Life Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free But what price now for a shallow piece of di...
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Australia 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...
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Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier 20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade Fake royalty second hand sequin facade Limited face paint and d...

Enola/Alone The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on the TV 100% risk of stepping outside Every second too pre...

Everything Must Go Shed some skin for the fear within Is starting to hurt me with everything Freed from the memory ...
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Further Away The further away I get from you The harder it gets for everyone else, for everyone else The happi...
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Interiors Who sees the interiors like young Willem once did Your beautiful triangle of distortion Now you se...
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Kevin Carter Hi Time Magazine Hi Pulitzer Prize Tribal scars in Technicolor Bang bang club AK 47 hour Kevin C...
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No Surface All Feeling Embarrassed possessed and so uncivilised Just take a look at the whites of my eyes See me now and ...
No Surface All Feeling Chords and Tabs

Removables Conscience binds you in chains Trail by stone hammer and nails No-one made the holes but me Miser...
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Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky You have your very own number They dress your cage in its nature Once you roared now you just grun...
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The Girl Who Wanted to Be God There are no sunsets just silence You could see that she was true and faithless But see through th...
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1985 In 1985, I placed a bet and lied, losing all that I had, at least with all my heart intact. In 1985...

A Song For Departure And all the masks I carry on my face For you, for another Some calm and then some grace But once wit...

Always / Never Always, never on my mind Always, always out of time Always, always letting someone down Always, alwa...

Cardiff Afterlife If the love between us has faded away Left in the rain, Scratching at the stains The paralysed futur...
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Emily Emily, Emily your gift to me Emily, a modern sense of beauty Emily, as precious as your memory: A si...

Empty Souls Empty souls will leave their homes To find a place where they're alone Rattling memories and hollow ...
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Fragments Strung out eyes as cold as worship Two minutes silence in a century of screams Tiny massive hands, e...

Glasnost When did life get so, get so complicated When did time start, start accelerating Make life slower St...

I Live To Fall Asleep I live to fall asleep It's when I stop the hate I never want to dream It infiltrates beauty I live ...

Solitude Sometimes Is Solitude sometimes is The place that I would like to live Solitude sometimes is When nothing really ...
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The Love Of Richard Nixon The world on your shoulders The love of your mother The fear of the future The best years behind ...

To Repel Ghosts When the disappearing begins The ghosts we kept within Can break free from inside And untie our blin...

Be Natural Been natural for once in my life Now I'll have to swallow some pride Know that I should never give...

Black Dog on My Shoulder There's a black dog on my shoulder again Licking my neck and saying she's my friend Solitude the o...

Born a Girl Do I look good for you tonight Will you accuse me as I hide Behind these layers of disguise In th...
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I'm Not Working Petrified for the millionth time Slowly my soul evaporates No parachutes no dismal clouds Just th...

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 the...

My Little Empire My little empire has risen and it's set My little empire is as good as it can get My little empire...
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Nobody Loved You What's your story baby No control of what I am saying Winter leaves still make me believe No vend...

Ready for Drowning Here's a true story Said someone to me yesterday Said he'd heard it in a taxi Must have had him a...
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S.Y.M.M. The subtext of this song I've thought about it for so long But it's really not the sort of thing ...

The Everlasting The gap that grows between our lives The gap our parents never had Stop those thoughts control you...
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Tsunami For you my dear sister Holding onto me forever Disco dancing with the rapists Your only crime is ...

You Stole the Sun from My Heart Drinking water to stay thin Or is it to purify? I love you all the same But there's no, no real wit...
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You're Tender and You're Tired You're so fragile tonight Been up hurting all night It's not trivial like they think Yes you're ...
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Bright Eyes Written By: Batt Is it a kind of dream Floating down on the river Following the river of death d...

Can't Take My Eyes Off You Written by: Crewe/Gaudio You're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you You feel l...
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Charles Windsor Written by: McCarthy Charles Windsor who's at the door At such an hour who's at the door In the ...

It's So Easy Written By: Guns n' Roses/Arkeen I see your sister in her Sunday dress She's out to please She p...

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Music: Bert Bacharach Lyrics Hal David Raindrops keep falling on my head And just like the guy who...

Rock and Roll Music Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music Any old way you choose it It's got a back beat, ...

Stay With Me Written By: Stewart/Wood In the morning Don't say you love me Cause I'll only kick you out of th...

Take the Skinheads Bowling Written By: Lowery/Krummenacher/Nolla/Segel/Lisher Every day, I get up and pray to Jah And he incr...

The Drowners Written By: Anderson/Butler Won't someone give me a gun? Oh, well it's for my brother, Well he w...

Theme from MASH Through early morning fog I see Visions of the things to be The pains that are withheld for me I rea...

Train in Vain Written By: Strummer/Jones Say you stand by your man Tell me something I don't understand You sa...

Under My Wheels Written By: Bruce/Dunaway/Ezrin The telephone is ringing You got me on the run I'm driving in my...

Velocity Girl Written By: Gillespie/Beattie Here she comes again With vodka in her veins Been playing with a s...

What's My Name Written By: Strummer/Jones/Levene What the hell is wrong with me? I'm not who I want to be I tri...

Wrote For Luck Written By: Happy Mondays I wrote for luck They sent me you I sent for juice They sent me poiso...

All Alone Here The dreams of the city Leave no room for self pity We're all alone here So all alone here Always ma...

Been A Son She should have stayed away from friends She should have had more time to spend She should have died...
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Behave Yourself Baby babababababababababa babababababababababa babababababababababa babababababababababa baba Behave you...

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel? Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? And wh...

Door To The River I'm losing all my innocence Door to the river I know I've stopped making much sense Door to the rive...
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Everything Will Be Everything is, everything was Torn between what still makes us carry on Everything is, everything wa...

Forever Delayed Forever is such empty word A void measurement of time, We never know when forever is, Forever leaves...
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Judge Yr'self Blessed be the blades Blessed be the sighs Dionysus against the crucified Find your truth Face your...
Judge Yr'self Chords and Tabs

Just A Kid Afraid of the sun So afraid of the sky Touch it and taste it But don't reach too high Bewildered by...

Last Christmas Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day You gave it away This year To stop me from tea...
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Out Of Time You don't know what's going on You've been away for far too long You can't come back and think you a...

Picturesque I would like, I would prefer no choice, Just one bread, one milk, one food for all, I'm confused I o...

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 ...
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We Are All Bourgeois Now There's something wrong somewhere here So through unclean streets I made my way With holes in my sh...