The second single and title track from Everything Must Go is one of the band’s most well-known and commercially successful singles, making it to #5 in the UK Singles Chart, making it the band’s second of five consecutive top 10 singles.
The lyrics deal with the band’s change of direction after the...
[Verse 1]
Shed some skin for the fear within
Is starting to hurt me with everything
Freed from the memory
Escape from our history, history
[Chorus]
And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
[Bridge]
Freed us eventually
Just need to be happy, happy
[Chorus]
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
Then everything must go
Everything Must Go was written by Sean Moore & James Dean Bradfield & Nicky Wire.
Everything Must Go was produced by Mike Hedges.
Manic Street Preachers released Everything Must Go on Mon May 20 1996.