Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
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It’s not a completely anti-American song. It compares British imperialism to American consumerism. It’s just trying to explain the confusion I think most people feel about how the most empty culture in the world can dominate in such a total sense.
So said Nicky Wire in a 1994 Melody Maker interview...
[Sampled Intro]
Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage of a gala tribute in salute to Ronald Reagan. Host Haley Barbour joins special guest Lady Margaret Thatcher in celebrating the former president's 83rd birthday. Tickets are 1000 Dollars a plate but you can see the event free on GOP TV.
[Verse 1]
Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada, Haiti, Poland, Nicaragua
Who shall we choose for our morality
I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy
Big Mac, smack, Phoenix, R., please smile y'all
Cuba, Mexico can't cauterise our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface
[Chorus]
Cool, groovy, morning, fine
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
[Bridge]
(Conservatives say) "There ain't no black in the Union Jack"
(Democrats say) "There ain't enough white in the Stars and Stripes"
[Verse 2]
Compton, Harlem, a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats, how white was their skin
Unimportant, just another inner-city drive-by thing
Morning, fine, serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems away
Number one, the best, no excuse from me
I am here to serve the Moral Majority
[Chorus]
Cool, groovy, morning, fine
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
[Extended Bridge]
Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world's first taste of crucified grace
(And we say) there's not enough black in the Union Jack
(And we say) there's too much white in the Stars and Stripes
[Outro]
Fuck the Brady bill!
Fuck the Brady bill!
"If God made man," they say
"Sam Colt made him equal"
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart was written by Nicky Wire & James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore & Richey Edwards.
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart was produced by Manic Street Preachers.
Manic Street Preachers released Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart on Mon Aug 29 1994.