- A Design
for Life
- Motorcycle
Emptiness
- If You
Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
- La
Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
- There By
The Grace Of God
- You Love
Us
- Australia
- You Stole
The Sun From My Heart
- Kevin
Carter
- Tsunami
- The
Masses Against The Classes
- From
Despair To Where
- Door To
The River
- Everything
must Go
- Faster
- Little
Baby Nothing
- Theme
From M*A*S*H (Suicide is Painless)
- So Why
So Sad
- The
Everlasting
- Motown
Junk
A
Design For Life
Author:
Nicky Wire
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
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
A design for life
A design for life
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
A design for life
A design for...
Motorcycle
Emptiness [Forever Delayed Edit]
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
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, ever, ever
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
Survival's natural as sorrow, sorrow, 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
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, swallow, swallow
Under
neon loneliness
Motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness
Everlasting nothingness
If
You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Author:
Nicky Wire
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
Will be next
Will be next
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
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next
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
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next
La
Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
Life
has been unfaithful
And it all promised so so much
I am a relic
I am just a petrified cry
Wheeled
out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir
The applause nails down my silence
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
I
see liberals
I am just a fashion accessory
People send postcards
And they all hope I'm feeling well
I
retreat into self-pity, it's so easy
Where they patronise my misery
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
La
tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
I
sold my medal
It paid a bill
It sells at market stalls
Parades Milan catwalks
All
the sadness will never go
Will never go away
Baby it's here to stay
La
tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh
There
By The Grace Of God
Author:
Nicky Wire
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
With
grace we will suffer
With grace we shall recover
There by the grace of God
There by the grace of God
Lay
down all your guns
Give them up and then move on
It doesn't mean that you are dead
Passing by the grace of God
There by the grace of God
With
grace we will suffer
With grace we shall recover
There by the grace of God
There by the grace of God
With
grace we will suffer
With grace we shall recover
There by the grace of God
There by the grace of God
There
by the grace of God
And
all the drugs in the world...
With
grace we will suffer
With grace we shall recover
There by the grace of God
There by the grace of God
With
grace we will suffer
With grace we shall recover
There by the grace of God
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
You
Love Us
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
We
are not your sinners
Our voices are for real
We realised and won't be mourned
We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms
We
won't die of devotion
Understand we can never belong
Throw some acid into your face
Pollute your mineral water with a strychnine taste
You
love us
You love us
You love us
You love
You love us
Oh you love us
You love
You love us
You love us
You love
Till
I see love in statues
Your lessons drill inherited sin
Parliaments a fake life saver
You better wake up and smell the real flavour
You
love us like a holocaust
Same PR problem as EST
You love us like a holocaust
Same PR problem as EST
You
love us
You love us
You love us
You love
You love us
Oh you love us
You love
You love us
You love us
You love
You
love us
You love us
You love us
You love
You love us
Oh you love us
You love
You love us
You love us
You love
Australia
Author:
Nicky Wire
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 another pill
Praying
for the wave to come now
It must be for the fifteenth time
I've been here for much too long
This is the past that's mine
I
want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
I
want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia
Praying
for the wave to come now
It must be for the very last time
It's twelve o'clock till midnight
There must be someone to blame
I
want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia
Australia,
in Australia
I
want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia
In Australia
In Australia
You
Stole The Sun From My Heart
Author:
Nicky Wire
Drinking
water to stay thin
Or is it to purify
I love you all the same
But
there's no, no real truce with my fury
You don't have to believe me
I love you all the same
But
you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from
You
have broken through my armour
And I don't have an answer
I, I love you all the same
I
paint the things I want to see
But it don't come easy
I, I love you all the same
But
you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from
I
think I'm, I'm lost among the undergrowth
So much so I woke up
I, I love you all the same
But
you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from
I
have, I've got to stop smiling
It gives the wrong impression
But I love you all the same
Kevin
Carter
Author:
Richey James
Hi
Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang bang club AK 47 hour
Kevin
Carter
Hi
Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white
Kevin
Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin
Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
The
elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head
Machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
Click click click click click
Click himself under
Kevin
Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Tsunami
Author:
Nicky Wire
For
you my dear sister
Holding onto me forever
Disco dancing with the rapists
Your only crime is silence
Can't
work at this anymore
Can't move I want to stay at home
Tied up to all these crutches
Never far from your hands
Tsunami
tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Can't speak, can't think, won't talk, won't walk
The
doctors tell me that I'm cynical
I tell them that it must be chemical
So what am I doing girl
Cry into my drink I disappear
Eyes
for teeth grating over me
Bring down the shadows of my mind
Sleep and breathe under our sheets
Inhale the anxiety in between, in between, in between, in between
Tsunami
tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Through
September under the weather
In
between, in between, in between, in between
Tsunami
tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Take
the GIs I will have the spies
The
Masses Against The Classes
Author:
Nicky Wire
The country was founded on the principle
That the primary role of government
Is to protect property from the majority
And so it remains
One,
two, three, four
Hello
it's us again
We're still so in love with you
And yes we mean it too
Yes we're so in love with you
Hello
it's us again
You thought you were our friends
Success is an ugly word
Especially in your tiny world
The
masses against the classes
I'm tired of giving a reason
When the future is what we believe in
We
love the winter
It brings us closer together
So
can you hurt us anymore
Can you feel like it was before
Or are you lost forever more
Messed up and dead on alcohol
Hello
fond farewell my dears
I hope you hear this nice and clear
Our love is unconditional
Our hate is yours to feed upon
The
masses against the classes
I'm tired of giving a reason
When the future is what we believe in
We
love the winter
It brings us closer together
The
masses against the classes
I'm tired of giving a reason
When we're the only thing left to believe in
We
love the winter
It brings us closer together
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends
by wanting to wear a crown
From
Despair To Where
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
I
write this alone on my bed
I've poisoned every room in the house
The place is quiet and so alone
Pretend there's something worth waiting for
There's
nothing nice in my head
The adult world took it all away
Wake up with same spit in my mouth
Cannot tell if it is real or not
I
try and walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where
Outside
open-mouth crowds
Pass each other as if they're drugged
Down pale corridors of routine
Where life falls unatoned
The
weak kick like straw
Till the world means less and less
Words are never enough
Just cheap tarnished glitter
I
try and walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where
A
cripple walks in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where
Door
To The River
Author:
Nicky Wire
I'm
losing all my innocence
Door to the river
I know I've stopped making much sense
Door to the river
I think I'll leave and I'll take some rest
Door to the river
All
my best wishes are just lies
Are just lies
I'd
love to see colours like you
Door to the river
Resurrected and feeling blue
Door to the river
I've seen the glory and yes it's true
Door to the river
Fearful
of the future now
The future is now
But it's true the things you feel don't go
The people that you love hold on
Baby
I lost my way
Following our star
But I guess that's just how you are
How you are
The
majesty, the majesty
Door to the river
Pre-eminent amongst the free
Door to the river
Happy and drifting endlessly
Door to the river
All
my best wishes are just lies
Are just lies
Sun breaks and cloudbursts
The hardest of all words
The conflict of sin all kept within
Baby
I lost my way
Following our star
But I guess that's just how you are
How you are
Just how you are
How you are
Everything
Must Go
Author:
Nicky Wire
Shed
some skin for the fear within
Is starting to hurt me with everything
Freed from the memory
Escape from our history, history
And
I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
I
look to the future it makes me cry
But it seems too real to tell you why
Freed from the century
With nothing but memory, memory
And
I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
Freed
us eventually
Just need to be happy, happy
And
I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
And
I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation, -ation
Then everything must go
Faster
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
I hate purity, hate goodness
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere
I want everyone corrupt
I
am an architect, they call me a butcher
I am a pioneer, they call me primitive
I am purity, they call me perverted
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave
I
am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards
Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please
A morality obedient only to the cleansed repented
I
am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell
The
first time you see yourself naked you cry
Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing
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
I've been too honest with myself
I should have lied like everybody else
I
am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell, learnt to spell
So
damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
Little
Baby Nothing [7" Version]
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
No
one likes looking at you
Your lack of ego offends male mentality
They need your innocence
To steal vacant love and to destroy
Your beauty and virginity used like toys
My
mind is dead, everybody loves me
Wants a slice of me
Hopelessly passive and compatible
Need to belong, oh the roads are scary
So hold me in your arms
I wanna be your only possession
Used,
used, used by men
Used, used, used by men
All
they leave behind is money
Paper made out of broken twisted trees
Your pretty face offends
Because it's something real that I can't touch
Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower
No
god reached me, faded films and loving books
Black and white TV
All the world does not exist for me
If I'm starving, you can feed me lollipops
Your diet will crush me
My life just an old man's memory
Little
baby nothing
Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty
Dress your life in loathing
Breaking your mind with Barbie doll futility
Little
baby nothing
Sexually free, made-up to breakup
Assassinated beauty
Moths broken up, quenched at last
The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by
You
are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair
Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
Author:
Mike Altman
Through
early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realise and I can see
That
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
That
game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card of some delay
So this is all I have to say
That
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
I can take or leave it if I please
The
sword of time will pierce our skin
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger, watch it burn
That
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
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
That
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I...
That
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
That
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And you can do the same thing if you please
So
Why So Sad
Author:
Nicky Wire
Things
get clear when I feel free
When whatever's next comes easily
When gentle hands give life to me
When your eyes fill with tiny tears
When
I'm this still you are my life
[When I'm this still you are my life]
So at ease in the midnight sky
[So at ease in the midnight sky]
But my insides will look like war
[My insides will look like war
Paralysed except through my thought
So
why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
Dependent on above
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad
My
smile as real as a hyena's
[My smile as real as a hyena's]
Burns an expressway to my skull
[Burns an expressway to my skull]
But I'll stick myself together again
Spirit so low that I no longer pretend
So
why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
Dependent on above
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad
So
why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
Dependent on above
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad
So why, so why so sad
So why, so why so sad
So why, so why so sad
The
Everlasting [Radio Edit]
Author:
Nicky Wire
The
gap that grows between our lives
The gap our parents never had
Stop those thoughts control your mind
Replace the things that you despise
Oh you're old I hear you say
It doesn't mean that I don't care
I don't believe in it anymore
Pathetic acts for a worthless cause
In
the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But
now unforgiven, the everlasting
Everlasting...
The
world is full of refugees
They're just like you and just like me
But as people we have a choice
To end the void with all its force
So don't forget or don't pretend
It's all the same now in the end
It was set in a different life
Destroys my days and haunts my nights
In
the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But
now unforgiven, the everlasting
Everlasting...
In
the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But
now unforgiven, the everlasting
Everlasting...
Motown
Junk
Author:
Nicky Wire / Richey James
Revolution, revolution, revolution...
Never
ever wanted to be with you
The only thing you gave me was the boredom I suffocate in
Ooh ooh ooh
Adrift
in cheap dreams don't stop the rain
Numbed out in piss towns just wanna dig their graves
Ooh ooh ooh
Motown,
Motown junk
I laughed when Lennon got shot
Twenty-one years of living and nothing means anything to me
Motown
junk a lifetime of slavery
Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds
Motown
junk
Motown junk
Motown junk
Motown junk
I
don't want cos I just get
All you slut heroes offer is a fear of the future
Ooh ooh ooh
Past
made useless and I'm dying now
Communal tyranny a jail that bleeds our wrists
Ooh ooh ooh
Motown,
Motown junk
I laughed when Lennon got shot
Twenty-one years of living and nothing means anything to me
Motown
Junk a lifetime of slavery
Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds
Motown
Junk
Motown Junk
Motown Junk
Motown Junk
Motown
Junk a lifetime of slavery
Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds
Motown
Junk
Motown Junk
Motown Junk
Motown Junk
Junka junka junka junka junka
We live in urban hell
We destroy rock and roll
