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Old 14-07-2014, 08:22
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I don't have problem with any Manics' lyrics. It's just like ripples in the fabric of spacetime. They fill the void even if something like "tiny massive hands" or "sad facebooking".
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Old 14-07-2014, 08:41
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'But you'd love the chance to eat their food, even though it has been chewed'

Read it out loud and it sounds awful, painfully awkward.
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Old 14-07-2014, 13:38
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When i start to break free
It calls me back again
Like the Godfather 3
I never can escape


Eek.
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Old 14-07-2014, 13:59
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They fill the void even if something like "tiny massive hands" or "sad facebooking".
Same here.

Tiny massive hands, for example, I like. James just sings it with such conviction, and I can - as with many daft manics lyrics - kind of imagine a universe where it is really meaningful. And I'm not even being sarcastic right now.
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Old 14-07-2014, 14:03
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When i start to break free
It calls me back again
Like the Godfather 3
I never can escape


Eek.
I dread the day we get a song that goes:

My luck is running out
Slowing to a trickle
Like in Goodfellas
I am in a right pickle
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Old 14-07-2014, 14:14
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I dread the day we get a song that goes:

My luck is running out
Slowing to a trickle
Like in Goodfellas
I am in a right pickle
Or

I tried to write a powerful song
the ink leaked and my heart went boom
like hiroshima nagasaki dolls are burning
i see what i did there
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Old 14-07-2014, 20:08
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I think the type of lyrics that the Manics write will always lead to the odd poor and clunky lyric. I was listening to KYE recently and I'd never noticed how clunky the line "Liberal Asinine Pricks" sounds.
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Old 14-07-2014, 20:32
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Any Nicky lyric that has "Like a..." at the start.
He's gladly stopped doing this and that's one of the reasons RTF and the new album had in their favour.
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Old 14-07-2014, 21:00
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"Have you heard of Matthew Maynard
He's my favourite cricketer
I would rather watch him play than pick up my guitar"
A great run of lines from what is arguably the ultimate Wire lyric.
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Old 14-07-2014, 21:02
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Autumnsong is the worst lyric by a million million miles. Their worst single and most pointless song.
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Old 14-07-2014, 21:13
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* Upload your future and download your past
* The misguided tweets, The sad facebooking
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Old 14-07-2014, 21:18
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Any Nicky lyric that has "Like a..." at the start.
He's gladly stopped doing this and that's one of the reasons RTF and the new album had in their favour.
Good call. KYE has some of my least favourites, including pretty much all of Royal Correspondent and (fitting the above criteria) 'Like a stunned fox / With memory loss'.

Bizarrely, Nicky Wire thinks this is one of his best lyrics.
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Old 15-07-2014, 15:14
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But "pass the Prozac"...
Richey was on Prozac. Reference to himself maybe?
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Old 15-07-2014, 16:00
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Awful. Oh and that Godfather 3 lline in TFHBHF.
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Old 15-07-2014, 16:57
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To feel forgiveness you've got to forgive. Really hate that line.
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