Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
This song, penned by Richey Edwards before his disappearance, is written about the life and death of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Kevin Carter. Carter committed suicide in 1994, three months after winning a Pulitzer Prize for an image he took the previous year of a starving child crawling...
[Verse 1]
Hi TIME Magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang-Bang Club, AK-47 hour
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
[Verse 2]
Hi TIME Magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
[trumpet solo]
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
[Verse 3]
The elephant is so ugly, he sleeps his head
Machetes his bed
Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
Click click click click click
Click himself under
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter was written by James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore & Nicky Wire & Richey Edwards.
Kevin Carter was produced by Mike Hedges.
Manic Street Preachers released Kevin Carter on Mon May 20 1996.