Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
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Manic Street Preachers & Traci Lords
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[Verse 1]
Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country
Wearing like a born dead
Free heroin shots for those who never beg
[Chorus]
Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight
[Verse 2]
The only free choice is refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicidal pain
Cigarettes a life-line, it's safety in death
Choking on the billboards, advertised and fed
[Chorus]
Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight
[Outro]
You're going to shoot us dead with decadence
You're going to shoot us dead with decadence
Spectators of Suicide was written by Nicky Wire & James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore & Richey Edwards.
Spectators of Suicide was produced by Steve Brown.
Manic Street Preachers released Spectators of Suicide on Mon Feb 10 1992.
The following is taken from a track-by-track interview for Generation Terrorists:
Nicky Wire:
Again, I direct people listening to “Spectators of Suicide” to the Heavenly version. We kind of recorded one which sounds like “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”.
Sean Moore:
It was supposed to be like G'n'R Lie...