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Old 01-07-2013, 07:46
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Manics' Lyrics You Can't Find

Today as I was searching for the lyrics of a few b-sides that sounded pleasant to sing along to, I was surprised I couldn't find any Slow Reflections / Strange Delays one. I typed in to the Google search bar various combinations, such as with "lyrics" included, excluded, the band name included, excluded, full name of the song, half of the name etc etc.... nothing?!
Is that song so obscure or so unpopular?!

So, anyway, starting with my case of "Slow Reflections / Strange Delays", this post is dedicated to the lyrics of all of the Manics' songs that you can't find on the internet. I guess there are not many, but as I stumbled across this one, I thought there might be a few more.
And hopefully here you can also post the lyrics of the mentioned songs, if you found them.
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Old 01-07-2013, 17:50
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The man he moved so far into the west. He very nearly went and drowned himself. All the failure and all the ruins. Face to face with all your deceptions. Slow reflections and strange delays. So much to write but not much to say. Slow reflections and strange delays. Hopes in vain were never raised. You knew us better than we knew ourselves. And the truth it seems to hurt so much. In your body and in your very soul. You never ever really felt at home. Slow reflections and strange delays. So much to write but not much to say. Slow reflections and strange delays. Hopes in vain were never raised.


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Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield)


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I can't absolutely find the lyrics for "Vision Blurred". An official original version by The Horrors doesn't seem to exist, and the lyrics in the Manics cover are pretty intellegible. I'm not an English native speaker and I know that Manics are not the easiest band whose lyrics can be understood, but that song seems really impossible to understand for me.
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Sorry to go off-topic but I have been a Manics fan for 15 years. I know everything about the band. I have been to gigs in different countries. I can play all the songs on guitar... and yet I still do not know the lyrics from the verses of From Despair to Where.

I just needed to admit that finally.
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Sorry to go off-topic but I have been a Manics fan for 15 years. I know everything about the band. I have been to gigs in different countries. I can play all the songs on guitar... and yet I still do not know the lyrics from the verses of From Despair to Where.

I just needed to admit that finally.
Neither does James these days!
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Old 02-07-2013, 05:48
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The man he moved so far into the west. He very nearly went and drowned himself. All the failure and all the ruins. Face to face with all your deceptions. Slow reflections and strange delays. So much to write but not much to say. Slow reflections and strange delays. Hopes in vain were never raised. You knew us better than we knew ourselves. And the truth it seems to hurt so much. In your body and in your very soul. You never ever really felt at home. Slow reflections and strange delays. So much to write but not much to say. Slow reflections and strange delays. Hopes in vain were never raised.


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I can't absolutely find the lyrics for "Vision Blurred". An official original version by The Horrors doesn't seem to exist, and the lyrics in the Manics cover are pretty intellegible. I'm not an English native speaker and I know that Manics are not the easiest band whose lyrics can be understood, but that song seems really impossible to understand for me.
Anyone?
Hmmmh..... I could only find Blurred Vision by Queen.....
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Old 02-07-2013, 06:57
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Sorry to go off-topic but I have been a Manics fan for 15 years. I know everything about the band. I have been to gigs in different countries. I can play all the songs on guitar... and yet I still do not know the lyrics from the verses of From Despair to Where.

I just needed to admit that finally.
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
I wake with the same spit in my mouth
I can not tell if it's real or not

I try to walk in a straight line(in the last one is a cripple walks in a straight line)
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where?
From despair to where?

Outside open mouthed crows(or 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

Or atleast that's what I get on the studio version
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I can't absolutely find the lyrics for "Vision Blurred". An official original version by The Horrors doesn't seem to exist, and the lyrics in the Manics cover are pretty intellegible. I'm not an English native speaker and I know that Manics are not the easiest band whose lyrics can be understood, but that song seems really impossible to understand for me.
Anyone?
There was a discussion of it at the time, nothing official but some interpretation here.
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Outside open mouthed crows(or 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
This is the part I've never ever known and its no wonder considering how AWFUL these lines are.

In my head they've always been....

I'm tired I open my pride
Passed each other it's ep-toes-ut
No posed no ep-toe-ease-eet
Un-ep-toe-up the owned

The weak kick noes straw
the life no left no-oh
Words are never enough
Just cheap tarnished glitter

Jesus!
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Old 02-07-2013, 22:07
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There was a discussion of it at the time, nothing official but some interpretation here.
Can't improve on that ... the fourth line sounds like 'as slow motion figures run behind' but as to the rest of the ? and !

James should get taken on by the CIA .... no need for codes and encryptions just sing it Mr Bradfield .... in place of Bletchley there'd be a Bradfield Park all hunched over compooters with headphones on scribbling his indecipherables
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There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
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'I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield)


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And never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson
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There was a discussion of it at the time, nothing official but some interpretation here.
how funny...I replied several times to that thread...and I still can't figure out many of the lyrics
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Anybody got any idea what the last verse of New Art Riot (In E Minor) is about, or any of the lyrics in the Born To End demo?
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Old 04-07-2013, 19:59
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Anybody got any idea what the last verse of New Art Riot (In E Minor) is about, or any of the lyrics in the Born To End demo?
I think the last verse in that live version of New Art Riot is about James forgetting the lyrics

I can make out Can't get no girl to look at me at the start of the Born to End demo much of the rest seems to have ended up in their later version except for the bits I can't make out which I'd tell you only I can't make em out.
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There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more," - Byron

'I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield)


"Hope is the thing with feathers
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And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson
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Anybody got the lyrics to Horses Under Starlight?
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Today as I was searching for the lyrics of a few b-sides that sounded pleasant to sing along to, I was surprised I couldn't find any Slow Reflections / Strange Delays one. I typed in to the Google search bar various combinations, such as with "lyrics" included, excluded, the band name included, excluded, full name of the song, half of the name etc etc.... nothing?!
Is that song so obscure or so unpopular?!

So, anyway, starting with my case of "Slow Reflections / Strange Delays", this post is dedicated to the lyrics of all of the Manics' songs that you can't find on the internet. I guess there are not many, but as I stumbled across this one, I thought there might be a few more.
And hopefully here you can also post the lyrics of the mentioned songs, if you found them.
Most lyrics are on msppedia
http://www.msppedia.org.uk/index.php?title=Song_List
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