Manic Street Preachers
"The only interesting answers
are those which destroy the questions"-Susan Sontag
The Manic Street Preachers are an iconic Welsh band that have borne the Torch through their music. We have now influenced them at various points in time, inserting key lyrics and terms into their catalogue. This has assisted with shifting sentiment and feeling among the “Millenial” segment of the population, which should hopefully have begun to improve your timeline for the better. It's also no coincidence that the landlord of the band's Faster recording studio sold up the land for redevelopment, forcing Manic Street Preachers to relocate to the outskirts of Newport and their new Door To The River studio. NOT our finest moment but needs must.
We have exploited our previous influence pathway and sent through an artefact “key”. The key and Cherub Anchor has manifested somewhere in A Public Space north of Newport Market, on the High Street. Find the key, unlock the references, and find your way to somewhere older, carved in stone. There you can answer the question to open the Access Point below.
First - "Motorcycle Emptiness" 1 Culture sucks down words 2 Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles 3 Organise your safe tribal war 4 Hurt, maim, kill, and enslave the ghetto 5 Each day living out a lie 6 Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever 7 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 8 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 9 Life lies a slow suicide 10 Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths 11 From feudal serf to spender 12 This wonderful world of purchase power 13 Just like lungs sucking on air 14 Survival's natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow 15 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 16 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 17 All we want from you are the kicks you've given us 18 All we want from you are the kicks you've given us 19 All we want from you are the kicks you've given us 20 All we want from you are the kicks you've given us 21 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 22 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 23 Drive away and it's the same 24 Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim 25 Your joys are counterfeit 26 This happiness, corrupt political shit 27 Living life like a comatose 28 Ego, loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow 29 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 30 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 31 Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness 32 Under neon loneliness everlasting nothingness
Second - "P.C.P." 1 Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved 2 As long as the right words are used 3 Systemised atrocity ignored 4 As long as bi-lingual signs on view 5 Ten foot sign in Oxford Street 6 Be pure, be vigilant, behave 7 Grey not neon, grey not real 8 Life bleeds, death is your birthright 9 P.C. she speaks impotent, sterile, naive, blind, atheist, sadist 10 Stiff-upper lip, first principle of her silence, of her silence 11 PCP - a P.C. police victory 12 PCP - a P.C. Pyrrhic victory 13 When I was young "P.C." meant "Police Constable" 14 Nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference 15 Liposuction for your bad mouth boy 16 Cut out your tongue, effigies are sold 17 Words discoloured, bow to the bland 18 Heal yourself with sinner's salt 19 Doctors arrested for euthanasia 20 Kill smokers through blind vanity 21 If you're fat don't get ill 22 Europe's gravestone carved in plastic 23 P.C. she says inoculate, hallucinate, beware Shakespeare 24 Bring fresh air, king cigarette snuffed out by her midgets, by her midgets 25 PCP - a P.C. police victory 26 PCP - a P.C. Pyrrhic victory 27 When I was young "P.C." meant "Police Constable" 28 Nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference 29 P.C. caresses bigots and big brother, read Leviticus 30 Learnt censorship, pro-life equals anti-choice, to be scared of, of feathers 31 PCP - a P.C. police victory 32 PCP - a P.C. Pyrrhic victory 33 When I was young "P.C." meant "Police Constable" 34 Nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference 35 Lawyers before love, surrogate sex 36 This land bows down to 37 Yours, unconditional love and hate 38 Pass the Prozac, designer amnesiac
Third - "A Design For Life" 1 Libraries gave us power 2 Then work came and made us free 3 What price now for a shallow piece of dignity 4 I wish I had a bottle 5 Right here in my dirty face to wear the scars 6 To show from where I came 7 We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk 8 And we are not allowed to spend 9 As we are told that this is the end 10 A design for life 11 A design for life 12 A design for life 13 A design for life 14 I wish I had a bottle 15 Right here in my pretty face to wear the scars 16 To show from where I came 17 We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk 18 And we are not allowed to spend 19 As we are told that this is the end 20 A design for life 21 A design for life 22 A design for life 23 A design for life 24 We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk 25 And we are not allowed to spend 26 As we are told that this is the end 27 A design for life 28 A design for life 29 A design for life 30 A design for...
Fourth - "Tsunami" 1 For you, my dear sister 2 Holding onto me forever 3 Disco dancing with the rapists 4 Your only crime is silence 5 Can't work at this anymore 6 Can't move, I wanna stay at home 7 Tied up to all these crutches 8 Never far from your hands 9 Tsunami, tsunami 10 Came washing over me 11 Tsunami, tsunami 12 Came washing over me 13 Can't speak 14 Can't think 15 Won't talk 16 Won't walk 17 Doctors tell me that I'm cynical 18 I tell them that it must be chemical 19 So, what am I doing, girl? 20 Cry into my drink, I disappear 21 Eyes for teeth grating over me 22 Bring down the shadows of my mind 23 Sleep and breathe under our sheets 24 Inhale the anxiety in between 25 In between 26 In between 27 In between 28 Tsunami, tsunami 29 Came washing over me 30 Tsunami, tsunami 31 Came washing over me 32 Tsunami, tsunami 33 Came washing over me 34 Tsunami, tsunami 35 Came washing over me 36 Through September, under the weather 37 In between 38 In between 39 In between 40 In between 41 Tsunami, tsunami 42 Came washing over me 43 Tsunami, tsunami 44 Came washing over me 45 Tsunami, tsunami 46 Came washing over me 47 Tsunami, tsunami 48 Came washing over me 49 Take the G.I.s, I will have the spies
Fifth - "The Masses Against The Classes" 1 Hello it's us again 2 We're still so in love with you 3 And yes we mean it too 4 Yes we're so in love with you 5 Hello it's us again 6 You thought you were our friends 7 Success is an ugly word 8 Especially in your tiny world 9 The masses against the classes 10 We're tired of giving a reason 11 When the future is what we believe in 12 We love the winter, it brings us closer together 13 So can you hurt us anymore? 14 Can you feel like it was before? 15 Or are you lost forever more? 16 Messed up and dead on alcohol 17 Hello and fond farewell my dear 18 I hope you hear this nice and clear 19 Our love is unconditional 20 Our hate is yours to feed upon 21 The masses against the classes 22 We're tired of giving a reason 23 When the future is what we believe in 24 We love the winter, it brings us closer together 25 The masses against the classes 26 We're tired of giving a reason 27 When the future is what we believe in 28 We love the winter, it brings us closer together 29 "A slave begins by demanding justice 30 And ends by wanting to wear a crown"
Sixth - "So Why So Sad" 1 Things get clear when I feel free 2 When what happens next comes easily 3 When gentle hands give life to me 4 When your eyes fill with tiny tears 5 When I'm this still, you are my life 6 (When I'm this still, you are my life) 7 So at ease in the midnight sky 8 (So at ease in the midnight sky) 9 But my insides will look like war 10 (But my insides will look like war) 11 Paralysed except through my thought 12 So, why so sad? 13 You live and you love 14 So, why so sad? 15 Dependent on above 16 Searching for the Dead Sea scrolls 17 So, why? 18 So, why so sad? 19 My smile's as real as a hyena's 20 (My smile's as real as a hyena's) 21 Burns an expressway to my skull 22 (Burns an expressway to my skull) 23 But I'll stick myself together again 24 Spirit's so low that I no longer pretend 25 So, why so sad? 26 You live and you love 27 So, why so sad? 28 Dependent on above 29 Searching for the Dead Sea scrolls 30 So, why? 31 So, why so sad? 32 So, why so sad? 33 You live and you love 34 So, why so sad? 35 Dependent on above 36 Searching for the Dead Sea scrolls 37 So, why? 38 So, why so sad? 39 So, why? 40 So, why so sad? 41 So, why? 42 So, why so sad? 43 So, why? 44 So, why so sad? 45 So, why? 46 So, why so sad?
Seventh - "William's Last Words" 1 Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? 2 I'll be watching over you 3 Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? 4 I'll be watching over you 5 Goodnight my sweetheart 6 Until we leave tonight 7 Hold me in your arms 8 Wish me some luck as you wave goodbye to me 9 You're the best friends I ever had 10 Goodnight, sleep tight 11 Goodnight, God bless 12 Goodnight, nos da 13 I'll try my best 14 Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? 15 I'll be watching over you 16 Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? 17 I'll be watching over you 18 I will be waiting all my cares are for you 19 Dreams they leave and die 20 I'm just gonna close my eyes, think about my family 21 And shed a little tear 22 Goodnight, sleep tight 23 Goodnight, God bless 24 Goodnight, nos da 25 I'll try my best 26 Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? 27 I'll be watching over you 28 Isn't it lovely, when the dawn brings the dew? 29 I'll be watching over you 30 Leave me, go Jesus 31 I love you, yeah I love you 32 Just let me go 33 I even love the devil 34 But yes he did me harm 35 Don't keep me any longer 36 'Cos I'm really tired 37 I'd love to go to sleep and wake up happy 38 Yeah I'm really tired 39 I'd love to go to sleep and wake up happy 40 Wake up happy
Eighth - "The View From Stow Hill" 1 How did this town get so old 2 The air I breathe feels so heavy and cold 3 Always caught in between 4 The capital and the 'other' country 5 Always caught in between 6 The river and the valley 7 You can still see the bullet holes 8 You can still sense a little hope 9 Crushed dreams and the martyrs too 10 Silent-ghostly-still so confused 11 Look up to the skies – avoid the casual litter 12 Running from the pitiful nihilism 13 The misguided tweets the sad facebooking 14 Cheapness surrounds me but I'm not looking 15 Look up to the skies – avoid the casual litter 16 Running from the pitiful nihilism 17 The misguided tweets the sad facebooking 18 Cheapness surrounds me but I'm not looking
Ninth - "Sequels Of Forgotten Wars" 1 There will be no parades for the likes of us 2 The wars we fight are doomed to be lost 3 I've seen the reflections of my broken blood 4 The callous deception of never giving up 5 No stranger to the cause 6 No stranger to these wars 7 We dream no more no shock and awe 8 Nowhere to go for rock and roll 9 A blue screen for a tribal horde 10 The sequels of forgotten wars 11 A twist and a turn towards apocalypse 12 A pause for effect before your deadly kiss 13 Echo echo in a chamber of purity 14 To a lip-synced moral maze soliloquy 15 No stranger to this cause 16 Still a stranger in these parts 17 Progressive thoughts for idle hands 18 Platforms for corruptive brands 19 A blue screen for a tribal horde 20 The sequels of forgotten wars 21 No medication left to take 22 Just defeat and the bitterest of tastes 23 A blue screen for a tribal horde 24 The sequels of forgotten wars
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When must ye be ready? (All Caps With Spaces)
Tenth - "These Dark Roads" 1 My head won't rest, the lip of my own making 2 My pride takes a fall but will not be forsaken 3 My every living moment seems there for the taking 4 In these dark roads, there's a letter to be written 5 Through these dark roads, we will return 6 From these dark roads is everything I've learned 7 From these dark roads we'll be forgiven 8 From these dark roads, we will be delivered 9 In these dark roads, we'll be forgiven 10 In these dark roads 11 In these dark roads 12 Here I am, licking my wounds again 13 But the healing takes longer this time, my friend 14 The high cathedral of evil, I face 15 As empty as the bullshit they replace 16 Through these dark roads, we will return 17 From these dark roads is everything I've learned 18 From these dark roads we'll be forgiven 19 From these dark roads, we will be delivered 20 In these dark roads, we'll be forgiven 21 In these dark roads 22 In these dark roads 23 Through these dark roads, we will return 24 In these dark roads is everything I've learned 25 From these dark roads, we'll be forgiven 26 From these dark roads, we will be delivered 27 In these dark roads, we've been delivered 28 From these dark roads 29 In these dark roads