Manic Street Preachers
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[Verse 1]
You need your stars; even killers have prestige
Access to a living you will not see
24 hour boredom, I'm convicted instantly
Gorgeous poverty of created needs
[Chorus]
Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
3rd world to the 1st
Kill to live
[Verse 2]
Worms in the garden more real than a McDonalds
Drain your blood and let the Exxon spill in
Look around here, and you see nothing is very real
Chained to economy now famine has been
[Chorus]
Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
3rd world to the 1st
Kill to live
[Post-Chorus]
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
[Verse 3]
Madonna drinks Coke and so you can too
Tastes real good not like a sweet poison should
Too much comfort to get decadent
Politics here's death and God is safer sex
Uh uh uh uh
[Chorus]
Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
3rd world to the 1st
Kill to live
[Chorus]
Slash and burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
3rd world to the 1st
Kill to live
[Post-Chorus]
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
That's all you need
Slash N’ Burn was written by James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore & Richey Edwards & Nicky Wire.
Slash N’ Burn was produced by Steve Brown.
Manic Street Preachers released Slash N’ Burn on Mon Feb 10 1992.
In the booklets of both the original version as well as the 20th anniversary edition, each of the songs have been given a quote by a prominent pop culture figure. On this song the quote is from poet and playwright E.E. Cummings:
Progress is a comfortable disease
The following is taken from a track-by-track interview for Generation Terrorists:
James Dean Bradfield:
“Slash ‘n’ Burn” was a song that hadn’t been written until we got to the demo studio, House in the Woods in Surrey. It was all written when we did our first demo session with Steve Brown. It’s a...