Generation

Manic Street Preachers Generation Lyrics
1.Slash N' Burn

You need your stars, even killers have prestige
Access to a living you will not see
Twenty-four boredom, I'm convicted instantly
Gorgeous poverty of created needs
Slash n' burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
Third world to the 1st
Kill to live
Worms in the garden more real than McDonalds
Drain your blood and let the Exxon spill in
Look around here, you see nothing is very real
Chained to economy now famine has been
That's all you need
Madonna drinks Coke and so you do too
Tastes real good not like a sweet poison should
Too much comfort to get decadent
Politics here's death and God is safer sex
That's all you need


2.Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds

Economic forecasts soothe our dereliction
Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine
Carried away with useless advertising dreams
Blinding children, life as automatons
Nat West, Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit
Barclays iron eagle, '33 injection'
Sold to advertiser, computer execution line
They give then take away, repossess and crucify
The more you own the more you are, lonelier with cheap desire
Nat West, Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit
Prosperity--exports for Pol Pot
Prosperity--Mein Kampf for beginners
Nat West, Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit


3.Born To End

Get some pain and I feel alive - born to end
Close my eyes overdose on hell - born to end
Get run over by no direction - born to end
Breathing dead and I'm born to end - born to end
Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I've lost the love to sleep
H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beatuiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning
Europe freed by McDonald's and Levi's - born to end
Can't afford it so I hate it all - born to end
Images linger like repression - born to end
Concentration camps of our dreams - born to end
Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I've lost the love to sleep
H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beatuiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning
Beg for mercy
Pray for war


4.Motorcycle Emptiness

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
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
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 motorcycle emptiness


5.You Love Us

We are not your sinners
Our voices are for real
We realised and won't be mourned
We gonna burn your death mask uniforms
We won't die of devotion
Understand we can never belong
Thrown some acid into your face
Pollute your mineral water with a strychnine taste
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love
Until I see love in statues
Your lessons drill inherited sin
Parliament's a fake lifesaver
You better wake up and smell the real flavour
You love us like a holocaust
Same P.R. problem as E.S.T.
You love us like a holocaust
Same P.R. problem as E.S.T.
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love


6.Love's Sweet Exile

Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile
We blur into images of state coercion
Classified machines die misunderstood
City reflections pour out misery
We don't count 'cos we hate
Rain down alienation
Leave this country ?Leave this country
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave it
Despair seeps through and cuts our eyes
Unified collapse of everything inside
We understand but can't accept
You are not dead 'cos we hate
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave it
Our lives drift into a faceless sense of void
Everything of meaning becomes destroyed
There's too much concrete for us to breathe
We are kept down 'cos we hate
Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave it
Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile


7.Little Baby Nothing(With Traci Lords)

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
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
And 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 break up
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


8.Repeat

Repeat after me
Fuck Queen and country
Repeat after me
Death sentence heritage
Repeat after me
Death camp palace
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Repeat after me
Fuck Queen and country
Repeat after me
Royal Khymer Rouge
Repeat after me
Imitation demi-gods
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Repeat after me
Fuck Queen and country
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum


9.Tennesse

Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love
Tennessee nights just zip code love
Always believe the comfort of strangers
Tennessee eyes graffiti once blue
Media sells a trace of hate
Our epitaph reads like your sin
Subvert, destroy, beat derelict
Tennessee nights just zip code love
Commanche becomes as maggot
Tennessee eyes orange once blue
Media sells a trace of hate
His pain forgets her agony
His heart P.M.R.C
His heart P.M.R.C
The white man is disease
His heart P.M.R.C
Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love


10.Another Invented Disease

Drugs come out of boredom babe
U.N. exports it everyday
Their armies feed the ghetto lame
Government approve it just the same
Daylight bores the sunshine out of me
I need to feel alone amongst the weeds
Daylight bores the sunshine out of me
I need to feel, I need to feel,
I need to feel, I need to feel
We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease
Left alone in corporate slums
Where germs are free not Amex fun
Healthy bodies in empty minds
Only exist in advert time
Daylight bores the sunshine out of me
I need to feel alone amongst the weeds
Daylight bores the sunshine out of me
I need to feel, I need to feel,
I need to feel, I need to feel
Sunk deep in my TV
Maybe sucked the soul from within me
We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease


11.Stay Beautiful

Find your faith in your security
All broken up at seventeen
Jam your brain with broken heroes
Love your masks and adore your failure
We're a mess of eyeliner and spray paint
D.I.Y. destruction on chanel chic
Deny your culture of consumption
This is a culture of destruction
Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just
Babes on the run with poisoned lips
Wrap your arms 'round this everlasting kiss
Clinging to your own sense of waste
All we love is lonely wreckage
Your school your dole and your cheque book dreams
Your clothes your suits and your pension schemes
Now you say you know how we feel
But don't fall in love 'cos we hate you still
Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just
Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Anxiety is freedom


12.So Dead

Learn to sleep through misery
Never gonna wake feeling free
No one fucks as good as Marilyn
Plastic surgery sure cures your sins
You need a fix I'm your prostitute
Repression says depravity's cute
I'll feed you lines to make you smile
You're so easy to dehumanize
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
It's just that I can't find worth in enough
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
In your love
Pay for it
Pay for it
Degrade your senses till you hate me
Begging to be cool through nicotine
Decadence costs but she must be clean
Build up walls so you can't feel
When you get high 'it's so unreal'
Days fade in and I need the night
I've seen your dumb face all of my life
Eyes close down, I don't wanna see
Broken communion of the twentieth century
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
It's just that I can't find worth in enough
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
In your love
Pay for it
Pay for it
You're gonna pay for my intelligence
Pay for it
Pay for it
Cos I'm a slut and you just suck
Pay for it
Pay for it
Degrade your senses till you hate me
Pay for it
Pay for it
We promote all sickness and disease
You're gonna pay for my intelligence
Cos I'm a slut and you just suck
You're so dead
You're so dead


13.Spectators Of Suicide

Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country, wearing like a born dead
Free heroin shots for those who never beg
Spectators of suicide
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight
The only free choice is refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicidal pain
Cigarettes a life-line, it's safety in death
Choking on the billboards, advertised and fed
Spectators of suicide
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight
You're gonna shoot us dead with decadence


14.Damn Dog

'This is Damn Dog by the Manic Street Preachers... Take One'
I can lick your face
I can bite it too
My teeth's got rabies
I'm gonna give it to you
Gotta taste for flesh
Gotta taste for danger
So I foam and chew
The hands of a stranger
Feed me, feed me
Can't you hear me howl
Feed me
Cos I'm a damned dog now
Feed me, feed me
Can't you hear me howl
Feed me
Cos I'm a damned dog now


15.Crucifix Kiss

Christin me fuhrer nazarine
Believe in tomorrow not today
Give me all your possessions
Make poverty your perfect home
Allow your leaders to control you
Questions are now blasphemy
Why walk when you can crawl
Stay on your knees and kiss my feet
Censorship'll stop your excess though
Check your billboard for my tour
Listen to Luke sermon six
'And if one of the occupation troops forces you
to carry his pack one kilometre then carry it two'
Be a tourist in the war zone
Interrogate scriptures and not your stinking home
That diet of bread and water's old
And now feed on alcohol drug and do what you're told
We'll take your number for a name
Soak mind control in christening water out of jail
Fall in love, fall in love with me
Nail a crucifix onto your soul
Fall in love, fall in love with me
Nail a crucifix onto your soul


16.Methadone Pretty

I am nothing and should be everything
You're methadone pretty, surrender in pity
Intentional destruction germ
Eats your thoughts and makes you happy
They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Methadone Pretty
Methadone Pretty
Heart beats like a refugee machine
Pretty hostage mass, licensed to obey
Xerox days to acceptance
Decline accelerates into prejudice
They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Methadone Pretty
Methadone Pretty
I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history
I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history, I accuse
I don't need your history
Wreckage inside all that's real
Another bought product, no reality
Passive consumers with patrolled desires
Mindless countdown to retirement
They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Gonna stay a terminal young thing
An never gonna be methadone pretty
Methadone Pretty
Methadone Pretty
Methadone


17.Condemned To Rock N' Roll

Always feeling torn and slow
Love song cull destroy poem
Misery and trauma making love
Best go shoot the fucking doves
The past is so beautiful
The future like a corpse in snow
I think it's all the fucking same
It's a life sentence babe
A line of vodka tears inside
A shot of boredom helps my mind
Staring through a thousand dead eyes
I guess my nerves are brutalised
Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n' roll
No innocent exit when hope dies
And claustrophobia buys my mind
I ran to breathe contagious lies
No reason for just living life
Rip cord opens but my soul is cold
With you I never felt more alone
Skin never sweating dignity
Kept my line beneath ecstasy
This fragile prison of sanity
An ocean wave to death babe
Masochistic love going nowhere
You're nothing, pestilence, a seed
Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n'
Oblivion's all we know
Sterile like a line of piss, motherfucker
Review with avant-garde lips, motherfucker
There's nothing I wanna see
There's nowhere I wanna go