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
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Manic Street Preachers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Socialist Serenade is a response to the U-Turn of Tony Blair and New Labour in 1997 to which they initially promised that Tuition Fees for university students would be kept free as they had been since 1976 when they were originally abolished. However only months into his term in Downing Street, Blai...
[Verse 1]
What's the point in an education
When you have to pay for the privilege
This side of the truth where no sun shines
They don't count the cripples and the blind
I was thinking everybody had a chance
Like a dream stretched away too far
All this time such a debt to the city
I don't know who's the real enemy
[Chorus]
This is the socialist serenade
Yes I have money but I hate champagne
This is the socialist serenade
I can't see the past anywhere
[Verse 2]
Some greater benefit for the people
Ha ha ha ha we all believed in you
Is it about the politics of celebrity
Or endless days in the sun of Tuscany
[Chorus][x2]
[Outro]
Change your name to new
Forget the fucking labour
Socialist Serenade was written by Nicky Wire & James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore.
Socialist Serenade was produced by Dave Eringa.
Manic Street Preachers released Socialist Serenade on Mon Mar 08 1999.