Manic Street Preachers
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[Verse 1]
Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love
[Chorus]
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Always believe the comfort of strangers
Tennessee eyes graffiti once blue
Media sells a trace of hate
Media sells a trace of hate
[Verse 2]
Our epitaph reads like your sin
Subvert, destroy, beat derelict
[Chorus]
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Commanche becomes as maggot
Tennessee eyes orange once blue
Media sells a trace of hate
Media sells a trace of hate
[Bridge]
His pain forgets her agony
His heart P-M-R-C
His heart P-M-R-C
The white man is disease
His heart P-M-R-C
[Verse 3]
Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love
Tennessee was written by Sean Moore & James Dean Bradfield & Nicky Wire & Richey Edwards.
Tennessee was produced by Steve Brown.
Manic Street Preachers released Tennessee on Mon Feb 10 1992.
Lead singer James Dean Bradfield talked about the inspiration behind the song in a 2012 interview:
“Tennessee”’s just got [Patrick Jones, Nicky’s brother]’s fingers all over it, because he was always on about the orange glow of Tennessee, the [?] from the university, the word itself, and Tennessee...