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
Another of the more rocky and aggressive tracks on Gold Against the Soul, “Yourself” rages at the human tendency to despise one’s own body image and never to be satisfied with the way you look, as Richey James Edwards told Melody Maker:
We humans are the only animals who are burdened with the knowl...
[Verse 1]
Your ritual everyday
A mild shower soak in aftershave
Best clothes - do your best
Look in the mirror, go on
Belittle yourself, yourself, yourself
Belittle yourself, yourself, yourself
[Chorus]
You go on day after day
Dreaming on a lie
That you keep locked inside
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
[Verse 2]
Can you sleep tonight?
Cast aside for some pouting young pup
Sink into a slurred veneer
Alcoholic haze, so now
Least you can like yourself, yourself
Least you can like yourself, yourself
[Chorus]
You go on day after day
Reservoirs of guilt
That your fixed grin always hides
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
[Verse 3]
You look at ads all day
Everyone is perfect and you're so lame
Free scent burns your skin
But no smell can really cover sin
Too many teenage holes to fill
Too many teenage holes to fill
[Chorus]
You go on day after day
Speak to your despised
Blanking your loved ones
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
And yourself
Yourself was written by James Dean Bradfield & Sean Moore & Nicky Wire & Richey Edwards.
Yourself was produced by Dave Eringa.
Manic Street Preachers released Yourself on Mon Jun 21 1993.