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Manic Street Preachers - Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers)

Manic Street Preachers : This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

When asked to reflect on the events of 1996, Nicky Wire freely admitted that he defines his years in terms of sporting achievement ...

WHEN ASKED TO REFLECT ON THE events of 1996, Nicky Wire freely admitted that he defines his years in terms of sporting achievement. Thus, the 12 months during which the Manic Street Preachers had at last made an indelible impact on the mainstream pop consciousness were most notable for Cardiff beating Bath at rugby union and Nick Faldo defying improbable odds to win the US Masters golf...

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  • Aug 9, 1998

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First LP will be almost completely acoustic, according to frontman James Dean Bradfield

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Manic Street Preachers announce gigs in Australia in conjunction with the British Lions tour

Welsh trio say they 'can't wait to play their greatest hits to rugby fans Down Under'

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Manic Street Preachers documentary to get full-length screening in May

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Manic Street Preachers - Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers) Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers - Democracy Coma Lyrics

Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought
Screaming comatose with blackboard chalk
Siphoned minds suck a wallet full of love
Spitting out a language, I don't wanna talk

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Manic Street Preachers - We Are All Bourgeois Now Lyrics

There's something wrong somewhere here

So through unclean streets

I made my way

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Manic Street Preachers - Velocity Girl Lyrics

Written by: gillespie/beattie


Here she comes again

With vodka in her veins

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Manic Street Preachers - Valley Boy Lyrics

Here I am in Amsterdam
I like it here they speak my language
Even though it's not my own

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Manic Street Preachers - Rock & Roll Music Lyrics

Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat you can blues it
Any old time you use it

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Manic Street Preachers - Prologue to History Lyrics

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

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Manic Street Preachers - Close My Eyes Lyrics

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
Shake some hands and then I feel ashamed
I'm in control but I am out of time
I've lost the need for any desire, any desire

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Manic Street Preachers - Take The Skinheads Bowling Lyrics

(David Lowery/Victor Krummenacher/Chris Nolla/Jonathan Segel/Greg Lisher)
Every day, I get up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks by exactly one
Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days

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Manic Street Preachers - Sorrow 16 Lyrics

Cut your hair in front of businessmen
Kill yourself and censor health
Destroy words and ignore their truth
Wanna die and have never worked

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Manic Street Preachers - Sculpture Of Man Lyrics

War censored, no blood on TV
Cheap entertainment sold like a new deodorant
World War Three, a Sega dreamland
I'd take a whore to the funeral

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Manic Street Preachers - Sepia Lyrics

A framed adolescence steeped in the history of you
Stopping the summer once for you
Experience is lost on me, I am melancholia eternally
But I still smile so stupidly

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Manic Street Preachers - Mr. Carbohydrate Lyrics

They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
It's the only thing I can digest
Xenophobia or general disinterest
I must catch up with all this stuff

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Manic Street Preachers - It's So Easy (live) Lyrics

I see your sister in her Sunday dress
She's out to please, she pouts her best
She's out to take, no need to try
She's ready to make

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Manic Street Preachers - Donkeys Lyrics

Put some lipstick on
At least your lies will be pretty
A shadow on my face
And us donkeys wake up weary

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Manic Street Preachers - Dead Trees And Traffic Islands Lyrics

Paralysis through analysis
Yellow moral unclean decay
Silence begins to help me now
The sunshine it fades away

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Manic Street Preachers - Comfort Comes Lyrics

Need someone to nurse me
Reach out for the first person I see
Comforts the helpless, sole vanity
Caressing the broken heart of me

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Manic Street Preachers - Bored Out Of My Mind Lyrics

I'm, I'm feeling too awake, I'm, I'm tired of what I see
Everybody's dreaming, running for the scream
The media's stinking, drunk, nothing is at stake

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Manic Street Preachers - Spectators Of Suicide Lyrics

(Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore)
Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country, wearing like a born dead

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Manic Street Preachers - Wrote for Luck Lyrics

I wrote for luck
They sent me you
I sent for juice
They sent me poison

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