Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy

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Album Review

Release date: 19 March 2001

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy

Manic Street Preachers : Know Your Enemy

Eclectic of style. Political in content. Ah... the Manics return

After the string of Brit awards, the Number One anthems, the lighters waving in the air, you can see why Manic Street Preachers feel the need to prove they're still red in tooth, claw and ideology. Back in the days when they were promising to split up as soon as they had released an album, they had to struggle for acceptance as a band of substance and seriousness: now, weighted down with...

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Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers - Found That Soul Lyrics

Show me a wonder, you can't be sure of
I exist in a place, a self-made vacuum
But still stranded here with all the scum
So clean, so lost, so beautiful

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Manic Street Preachers - The Convalescent Lyrics

My bedroom wall recalls what's in my head
A collage constructed and constantly fed
Goya mixes Picasso, but it's hardly Spain
Look through the window, pissing down with rain

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Manic Street Preachers - Royal Correspondent Lyrics

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

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Manic Street Preachers - Ocean Spray Lyrics

Me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne
Totemo-utsukushi-i-me-wo-shitemasu

It's easy to see, it's easy to see

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Manic Street Preachers - My Guernica Lyrics

I'm small and I'm tired
I'm blurred to bits and wired
I'm nothing in this universe
Nothing but pieces of dust

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Manic Street Preachers - Miss Europa Disco Dancer Lyrics

Miss Europa disco dancer
Feel the drug of your persona
Miss Europa disco dancer
I'm in Heaven when I see you

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Manic Street Preachers - Let Robeson Sing Lyrics

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?

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Manic Street Preachers - Intravenous Agnostic Lyrics

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

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Manic Street Preachers - His Last Painting Lyrics

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

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Manic Street Preachers - Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children Lyrics

Liberty, sweet liberty
Charitable respectability
Then pacifism killed us all
For all the tourists on the Berlin Wall

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Manic Street Preachers - Epicentre Lyrics

We use ourselves like politicians
For all the money and indecision
Indecision, indecision

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Manic Street Preachers - Dead Martyrs Lyrics

Dead martyrs, all stigmartyrs
Dead heroes, for fear of zeroes
Dead martyrs always take it further
Dead heroes know no fear

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Manic Street Preachers - Baby Elian Lyrics

Blockades won't win you more votes
A Cuban adjustment act
Offer the world a dream
Dress it up, it's blackmail

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Manic Street Preachers - Wattsville Blues Lyrics

I got the Wattsville blues
I got nothing to lose now, baby
I got the Wattsville blues
I got nothing to lose now, baby

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