Manic Street Preachers - Faster Lyrics

In this video, sometimes it's just James, Sean and Nicky, while Richie wanders about off camera alone. Sad :-(

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Richie was just at a incredible level of dark lyrical genius here but James’s ability as an arranger of music is incredible too

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Mr Edwards pretending to pretend to pretend he knows how to play guitar for the purposes of a pop video. Great words though...

It never fails to amaze me that an album of such seething, spitting rage like The Holy Bible can also be super melodic...

Faster sounds good even 2 times faster :)

I am a bricklayer doesn’t just sound right

always loved the fact that this sounds like a machine gun. Beautiful.

Go vegan y'all

Timeless. My body has not stood the same test of time. I'm decaying daily.

The imbecile advert just underlines the brilliance of the song.

Love the aspect ratio

what a fkn great tune,repent

This sound popped into my head on the way home. Turns out it was this amazing track.

Nigel farage on guitar cause i tell it how it is! regardless!

All lyrics to common denominator, I hate life! Cry me a river hey!

This is better than anything Oasis ever did, and your stupid for saying no.

Thank you * The Manic Preachers * Lyrically brilliant. May * G * D * you all. Cheers, Ciao

Probably one of my absolute fave msp songs. The lyrics are totally florid and f******g amazing. JDB’s delivery leaves me breathless every time. Rough , raw and certainly 4 real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp6-34i0ZMI The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

A friend thought the lyrics were 'mad cows everything:

A los del -51 que os folle un buho

Went on Top of the Pops wearing a balaclava. 25 thousand complaints. Dear God.

The word c--t is the fourth word at the beginning of this epic yet very dark album.

As bleak as it gets, but some harsh truths contained in those lyrics. Way ahead of it’s time, thanks Richey, the work of any great artist always lives on ❤️

1:25 that look from Richey at the camera is like he is looking into your soul...can see the depression in his eyes.

Whenever great guitarists are discussed; Bradfield is never mentioned. Why is that. Guy is awesome

He suffered because he came to prominence during a time where Solos were a bit out of fashion I think. He's underrated as a singer aswell.

I know everyone already knows it, but that ‘I’ve been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else’ lyric is probably my favourite ever.

A modern day work of art. The whole album will never be forgotten.

i know i believe in nothing, but, it is my nothing...

The lead singer looks like Begbie from Trainspotting

wow he really does

fing love this song

If you held a gun to my head and I had no other choice
And I HAD TO pick a favourite Manics song
Then this is
The One

those stalkers, watchers, controllers, all in the way my dear
used friend

do you still like the Saxony anhalt?

don't be ashamed of your past, britain

repeat victims alles

THE BEST ALBUM OF THE 90'S.When this album came out it was a shock!-for those who remember

Man kills everything. Even himself.

The Holy Bible...The Greatest Album ever made

God damn,what a voice. What a track!

one of the best albums of all-time

Perfect!

Saw these guys live last year and holy hell they were sick! The bass player is fucking crazy

like two or three levels ahead of everybody else, 2018 and still no one comes near

we love you Richie x

"The first time you see yourself naked you cried/ Soft skin now acne" I can't believe this is from 1994, it sounds contemporary and rockier than many crap you hear in radios and tv nowadays

hrodric it's timeless that's why

Overrated

Play at 150% = Faster but it's even faster

I love this song.

This was Richey's farewell song to the human race-a suicide note of a song....x

Holy Bible was my first love!

I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing

Incredible how Bradfield got all those words out and in time...

That solo

When he shouts learn how to spell it's what I want to do in every comment section

thb got me through some dark times

is the voice at the archbishop, or Jason Woods family, screwing britian

LYRICS

I hate purity,
Hate goodness,
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere,
I want everyone corrupt

I am an architect,
They call me a butcher,
I am a pioneer,
They call me primitive,
I am purity, 
They call me perverted,
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave,

I am idiot drug hive,
The virgin, the tattered and the torn,
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards,
Self disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please,
A morality obedient only to be cleansed repented,

I am stronger than Mensa, miller and mailer,
I spat out Plath and Pinter,
I am all the things that you regret,
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell,

The first time you see yourself naked you cry,
Soft skin now acne,
Foul breath so broken,
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining,
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing,

Sleep cannot hide thoughts splitting through my mind,
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake,
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down,
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else.
I am stronger than Mensa, miller and mailer,
I spat out Plath and Pinter,
I am all the things that you regret,
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell,

So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything

I love this videos direction

'So damn easy to cave in'
What I heard=so dad thinks he's a care bear

probably the most INTJ lyrics of rock music history

Too good...

Great album - accompanied me on my walkman on many the tube trip back in the day.

I think the crappy quality of the video and Youtube's lo-fi sound makes it a little better :-) Of course I enjoy listening to my music in high quality but on this particular track, listening to it via Youtube gives it a bit more edge x

Love this album. Some dark stuff.🤘Manics at their Raw Best. Brilliant.👍👍😀

Jaja arthytech

the holy bible... the epitome of intelligence in rock and roll.

It's intelligence without wisdom. So in other words the sentiments expressed are foolish and stupid. This album is junk but if they didn't make it then we wouldn't have the opportunity to do the philosophy on it. The worldview expressed is this song is Nihilism which is not very comforting. No wonder Richey disappeared. He never resolved anything!

Manix were my first concert... with my oldest brother Neil. JJ72 supported. Now I sport my tee from that awesome show.

*Nope, zero~stunted fizzikill growth for I haha*

One of the best groups around, not over-hyped like most US groups

Probably not overhyped like US bands as they are valley boyos

This womans work

Fuck this is GOOD!

so damn easy to cave in..
man kills everything..

21 dislikes? You were obviously born without ears

Greatest. Band. Ever.

This is THE perfect song!

fuckin richey edwards why you have to leave... :(

If only we had a genius like Richey Edwards to give us lyrics to describe these dark days. You're missed, Richey, wherever you are.

He already did on this very album ( Holy Bible) p.c.p he absolutely fucking hated political correctness and virtue signalling bastards.

He would've hated the way liberals , the house of lords wealth and privilege are sneering trying to beat down the working class AGAIN. Don't think for one moment he would've supported your fucking stuck up middle class politically correct remoaner shit.

Tim Fisher yeh his lyrics still apply so..

@ mojopin 70 He was not a false teef old git like you he was continental unlike you incontinent dumbass.

.Missing person....Richey Edwards, 1st Feb 1995, he was an intelligent guy academically, well read, good with words, BUT he couldn't find a way to live, he couldn't find peace of mind. You see, in life, without having peace of mind, and if you are feeling tormented by guilt, shame or just your own thoughts are driving you crazy ...then........... your life will be very hard, and it will lead to massive depression, and is some cases tragedy. Peace of mind is everything.

or perhaps nothing is everything, but many things come close...? i think the trap sometimes is that peace of mind (from the perspective of being aware of the great disaster befalling human life) can resemble capitulation towards that disaster, but it is in fact, as i think you are saying, the necessary step in also learning the way that the disaster needs to be opposed, from an 'internal' position which also then opens the way to 'external' action, thank you for that comment.

RIP John Hurt you absolute legend

RobbieCBPBarlow
I only read 1984 a few weeks ago for the first time. As soon as I read this line in the book I immediately recognised it from the Holy Bible.

ratty860997 I had the same thing back in 2015 when I began to binge read again! I knew the opening quote to be Sir John Hurt and then I learnt that it was from 1984. Then I watched the clip on YouTube and heard the quote and then read the book and saw the quote and the Manic Street Preachers fan within me screamed with delight (':

RobbieCBPBarlow Marilyn Manson also references 1984 in Disposable Teens with the lyrics 'A rebel from the waste down'. Which Winston says to Julia. That was the other line in the book that stood out to me and made me think. 'I've heard that line before'.

ratty860997 I've never been a fan of Marilyn Manson - I don't dislike him just never got into him really, but I do remember that quote now that you mention it! (: one of the best things about music and literature is that they're both easily dispersable between one and another and easily influential to each other too (:

RIP John Hurt. Only you could deliver the opening lines to this song.

RIP John Hurt. You have finally exited from the corrupt.

RIP John Hurt :(

I love them

Is it just me or could you hear mcr doing a decent cover of this?

Who?

And,

No.

@12 22 My Chemical Romance probably

now ain't that just one of the most deliciously angry songs EVER
But I guess that's true for every song on "The Holy Bible". What an awesome album!

is it just me or does The Killers song Bones seems to be inspired by this title?

I'm Italian and I understand what he says ...

Weird. They're Welsh. :o

Catherine Mitchell ..I know they are Welsh.but i was Born in America and i speak,English ...Mabey I understand also because I listen to them since the age of 21 ..and now I am 47...

Catherine Mitchell your point being?

Don't worry I'm welsh and I had to look up the lyrics haha

Tu hai davvero dei bei gusti musicali ;-)

Best Manic song ever by far.

This song is so cool! A true classic

Just got into these guys really. Well I had Everything must go as a kid and loved it at the time and I seen the greatest hits (the older one) in a charity shop and thought I'll give it a spin and haven't stopped listening since. Still not a massive fan of IYTTTYCWBN that's kinds what put me off in the first place.

This is beyond great!

Can anyone claiming that these lyrics are the greatest give me a summary of what they think they're about? Reads like an incoherent mash-up of nihilistic teenage angst and cliched literary name dropping as far as I can tell.

If it means nothing to you, it means nothing to you.
But by the way, could you recommend some (lyrically) good music to me?

It's about non-conformity, esp Alister Crowley.

This turned out much longer than I planned it to be: 'I am an architect/They call me a butcher', etc - contrast between narcissistic sense of self and the perception others have of you, linking with the line 'self-disgust is self-obsession'; self-mutilation (represented by the word 'butcher') becomes, in the speaker's view, an almost pious self-sacrifice ('only to the cleansed repented'). Possible link with the song 'She is Suffering' regarding idea of emptying oneself of desire.

'I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn' - the song describes all these types of people. 'Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards' - life is suited to the others, the "normal" (lizards are cold-blooded and sit in the sun to get warm), but it is not suited for the speaker. You could also make something of the fact that 'they' are dehumanized.

'I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer/I spat out Plath and Pinter' - dominance of ego, rejection of aesthetic debris represented by Miller and Mailer, and the speaker's own cultural history in the form of Plath and Pinter, whose work often centered on alienation - homage to cut-up collage literature, and 'almost heroic self-indulgence' (Wire) - ego again. Probably Edwards' reflections on his own status as a lyricist, as well. 'I am all the things that you regret/A truth that washes that learnt how to spell' - speaker centres him/herself as ugliness and regret, but also as truth incarnate; links back again to the ego, as well as addressing the idea of an atavistic seed of weakness and aggression that prevails and is part of the human condition.

'The first time you see yourself naked you cry...' - body dysmorphia leading, in this case, to self-abuse. Interesting contradiction here between this and the self-aggrandizing lines before it. 'He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining' - not personally sure about this one. Is 'He' God? 'I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing' - fairly self-explanatory.

'Sleep cannot dull thoughts splitting through my mind' - insomnia. Putting my autobiographical hat on (which I know some disapprove of but eh whatever) Richey was an insomniac, and drank to help himself sleep. 'Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake' - people become preoccupied with false sense of self, a completely fake self-image to continue through the day. The lines later on ('I've been too honest with myself/I should have lied like everybody else') reinforce this.

The incoherence of the song is a reflection of the incoherence of our culture, and a rejection of the cosy lyricism that betrays those it aims to save. If you're interested, here's Edwards' own fittingly oblique summary of the song: 'Strength through weakness. All morality sown in the soil of the ruling caste. Self-abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural. Society speeding up – finds worth in failure.'

To me much of the song always sounded like a sort of critique of fascism/Nazism. EG: they see themselves as architects/pioneers/purity but in reality are butchers/primitive/perverted. Other people interpret it differently.

A goodwin it's not always about trying to find something in the lyrics. It's about what/where the manic street preachers came from that strikes a chord with most. All of their songs and lyrics are special x

F***ING COSMIC!!!

"I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing."