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James sa oženil!!! 35 ročný James Dean Bradfield a 30 ročná Mylene Halsall si 13.júla 2004 povedali svoje áno na tradičnej romantickej svadbe vo Florencii, Taliansko.
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* 4 ever delayed / Forever Delayed

Screaming through the galaxy
Trapped in this eternity
Stranded helpless, endlessly
Alone, the lost vigilantes

Forever ever delayed
Forever ever delayed

From the city to the sea
Will you all come follow me
To a place where we are free
Not tied to guilt or tied to greed

Forever ever delayed
Forever ever delayed
Forever ever betrayed
Forever delayed...

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* 4st7lb

"I eat too much to die / And not enough to stay alive / I'm sitting in the middle waiting"

Days since I last pissed
Cheeks sunken and despaired
So gorgeous sunk to six stone
Lose my only remaining home

See my third rib appear
A week later all my flesh disappears
Stretching taut, cling-film on bone
I'm getting better

Karen says I've reached my target weight
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake
Problem is diet's not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity

Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
Naked and lovely and 5 stone 2
May I bud and never flower

My vision's getting blurred
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks
And I can feel my breasts are sinking

Mother tries to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole Ryvitta
That's the way you're built my father said
But I can change my cocoon shedding

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity

Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
All things I like looking at
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life

I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me

Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

Yeah 4 stone 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel

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* A

* Archives Of Pain

"I wonder who you think you are / You damn well think you're God or something / God give life, God taketh it away, not you / I think you are the Devil itself"

If hospitals cure
Then prisons must bring their pain
Don't be ashamed to slaughter
The centre of humanity is cruelty
There is never redemption
Any fool can regret yesterday
Nail it to the House of Lords
You will be buried in the same box
As a killer

A drained white body hangs from the gallows
Is more righteous than Hindley's crotchet lectures
Pain not penance, forget martyrs, remember victims
The weak die young and right now
We crouch to make them strong

Kill Yeltsin, who's saying, Zhirinovsky, Le Pen,
Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe,
Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda,
Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Milosevic

Give them respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I Give them the respect they deserve

Execution needed
A bloody vessel for your peace
If man makes death death makes man
Tear the torso with horses and chains
Killers view themselves like they view the world
They pick at the holes
Not punish less, rise the pain
Sterilise rapists, all I preach is extinction

Kill Yeltsin, who's saying, Zhirinovsky, Le Pen,
Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe,
Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda,
Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Manic Street Preachers

Give them respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I give them the respect they deserve
I give them the respect they D.E.S.E.R.V.E.

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* Are Mothers Saints?

If piss is yellow then life must be grey
How come they smile when we throw it away
And if it is a colour then it must be sin
And you want to apologise but keep it in

Why worship a god when a mother is a saint
Why worship stone

They give life and take it back
Spit you out but understand

And when their arms are dead how do they sigh
As gentle as the winter that fades by
And some kind of angel appears in her eyes
Or is it just the Devil screaming inside

Why give into useless devotion
Truth and beauty, love and hate, mother and God

They give life and take it back
Spit you out but understand
Stay silent when you want to shout
Give, give when we piss it away

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* Australia

I don't know if I'm tired
And I don't know if I'm ill
My cheeks are turning yellow
I think I'll take another pill

Praying for the wave to come now
It must be for the fifteenth time
I've been here for much too long
This is the past that's mine

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia

Praying for the wave to come now
It must be for the very last time
It's twelve o'clock till midnight
There must be someone to blame

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia
In Australia

Australia, in Australia

I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words
In Australia...

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* Automatik Teknicolour

A deeply obsessive
Suburban militias
Tender and blissful
Classified forever

A diplomatic fever
Of our own saviours
Married to the future
With no solution

So write the damaged letters
Until the darkness sparkles
Essential is the shimmer
Of automatik teknicolour

So write the damaged letters
Until the darkness sparkles
Essential is the shimmer
Of automatik teknicolour

A bitter-sweet kaleidoscope
A sorry-heart ritual
The trust of a Medusa
Evidence of memorials

This way is the purest
This way is the surest
And all of their dialects
Illustrate the pointless

So write the damaged letters
Until the darkness sparkles
Essential is the shimmer
Of automatik teknicolour...

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* B

* Baby Elian

Blockades won't win you more votes
A Cuban adjustment act
Offer the world a dream
Dress it up - it's blackmail

Internal matter they say
For two million dollars a day
Maybe a future in film
But Cuban boxers still win

Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs
Or baby Elian
Operation Peter Pan
America - The Devil's playground

Baby Elian, Baby Elian

Across the unfair divide
Where black will never meet white
So read my token lips
As if they never exist

You cannot buy a nation
Not even the Miami mob
We follow a shining path
That you will never destroy

Kidnapped to the promised land
The Bay Of Pigs
Or baby Elian
Operation Peter Pan
America - The Devil's playground

You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution
You don't just sit in a rocking chair
When you've built a revolution

Baby Elian, Baby Elian

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* Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel

No scream, no smile,
No nothing for me
It's so hot that I can't breathe
Nine stone two and six foot three
Rats are crawling on my feet
Shrivel to nothing for the company
Lizards and geckos cover me
Military Police are after me
But everybody else seems so happy

Mini sized apples filled with disease
Even the water tastes like tea
On a diet of Gaviscon
Look at me I'm fucking gone
A light watch, my time today
Madonna's fucking on the car again
On the phone ten times a day
Hiding under the table again

Breakfast, my mouth tastes like piss
Masturbation, there's nothing left
In a daze, anorexic haze
Look outside and join the insane
The bug inside of me won't go
Egg and chips is all I want
So hungry I can taste home
Wake up screaming on all fours

Knocking knock knocking on my door
My life is a disaster
Giant ice cubes rolling on the floor
Someone help me dear God
Everybody has fake smiles
I am losing my fucking mind
I've had enough of being alone
I'd give anything to save my soul

I think that I have seen the Devil
Satan smiles at me in the mirror
Revolution in the Golden Palace
Four sickly boys are losing resistance
So much porn and alcohol
I'm so numb to my hormones
But my liberty is winning
Five years later I'm still shaking

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* Be Natural

Been natural
For once in my life
Now I'll have to swallow some pride
Know that I should never give advice
But it's too late now to say goodbye

Be natural
Don't want any friends
Be natural
Come on and hit me again
Be natural
I'm repeating myself
Be natural
Is there anything else

Starbright keep me safe, today and tonight
No water tastes like lemonade
Slowly slowly it starts to fade

Be natural
With me tonight
Be natural
Put your fists in my eyes
Be natural
So turn me to stone
Be natural
Just leave me alone

Grown up or backwards born
Into eternity and black holes
Floating around up here on my own
Screaming at me forever unknown

Been natural
Been natural
Been natural
Been natural
Is there anyone else?

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* Been a Son

She should have stayed away from friends
She should have had more time to spend
She should have died when she was born
She should have worn a crown of thorns

She should have been, been a son...

She should have stood out in the crowd
She should have made her mother proud
She should have fallen on her stance
She should have had another chance

She should have been, been a son...

She should have stayed away from friends
She should have had more time to spend
She should have died when she was born
She should have worn a crown of thorns

She should have been, been a son...

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* Black Dog On My Shoulder

There's a black dog on my shoulder again
Licking my neck and saying she's my friend
Solitude the one thing that I really miss
Guess my life is a compromise

There's a black dog on my shoulder again
I'm playing with it but it's gone to my head
Like Carlito's Way there are no exit signs

Freeze me there until I am numb
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

My dilemma but not my choice
Winston Churchill can you hear my voice
Melodrama there in my kitchen sink
Double vision the way it is

Am I coming home to you again
Or am I stupid just by design
Does it matter if you really ever know

This black dog is out of control
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

Am I coming home to you again
Or am I stupid just by design
Does it matter if you really ever know

This black dog is out of control
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

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* Black Garden

"Glory glory hallelujah / Our truth goes marching on"

There's a little part of me
There's a little part of you
Remember the feeling of a frozen embryo

There's a bigger part of me
There's a bigger part of you
Remember the place where you don't want to go

Welcome into your own black garden
It's full of life but it's still too frightening
Can't open my eyes this whiteness blinds
All this whiteness blinds

Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none

Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none

Waiting to be bred in the black garden
Waiting to be muted and then chosen
White trash you're a swinger
Ugly to the end
Ugly to the end

Swing, Swing

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* Black Holes For The Young

Lots of sun for you young boy
Lots of sun for you today
Subsidise the opera forget coal
Sit around in the London smog

Cappuccinos amongst the fumes
I breathe it in then down the gym
Yes I'm on a witch-hunt now
And paracetamol my only drug

You've got some black holes for the young
You won't feel it when it's gone
You've got some black holes for the young
You won't know when it's gone
When it's gone

No sun for you young boy
It will hurt your lily-white skin
Don't think it will hurt your mind
We'll be the ones who will give you soul

Close enough to fill those holes
This tenderness slipping through my fingers
Sandy sandy feet - ice cream to sleep
And no more feelings that you can feel

You've got some black holes for the young
You won't feel it when it's gone
You've got some black holes for the young
You won't know when it's gone

When it's gone
When it's gone
When it's gone
When it's gone
When it's gone
Gone

You've got some black holes for the young
You won't feel it when it's gone
You've got some black holes for the young
You won't know when it's gone
When it's gone

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* Bored Out Of My Mind

I'm feeling too awake
i'm, I'm tired of what I see
Everybody's dreaming running for the scream
The media's stinking drunk nothing is at stake

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
Words choked on my lies
Repeating love till they cry

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
I'm bored out of my mind
I'm too stone lazy to see

The sun, the sun is leaving me
I can't see it anymore
I tried everything to get along with you
The night's too lonesome when the heat doesn't care

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
Words choked on my lies
Repeating love till they cry

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
I'm bored out of my mind
I'm too stone lazy to see

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* Born a Girl

Do I look good for you tonight
Will you accuse me as I hide
Behind these layers of disguise
And the mirrors of my own happiness

I've loved the freedom of being inside
Need a new start and a different time
Something grows in the space between me
And it's twisting and changing this fragile body

And I wish I had been born a girl
Instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man

The censorship of my skin
Is screaming inside and from within
There's no room in this world for a girl like me
No place around there where I fit in

And I wish I had been born a girl
Instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man...

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* Born To End

Get some pain and I feel alive - born to end
Close my eyes overdose on hell - born to end
Get run over by no direction - born to end
Breathing dead and I'm born to end - born to end

Fall to the floor my baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby
I've lost the love to sleep

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning

Europe freed by McDonalds and Levis - born to end
Can't afford it so I hate it all - born to end
Images linger like repression - born to end
Concentration camps of our dreams - born to end

Fall to the floor my baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby
I've lost the love to sleep

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying dolls

Beg for mercy
Pray for war

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* Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel)

Is it a kind of dream
Floating down on the river
Following the river of death down the stream
Oh is it a dream

There's a fog on the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody knows where you can go
Or what does it mean
is it a dream

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly turn so pale
Bright eyes

Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching over the hill
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream

There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody knows where you can go
And where do you start
into the dark

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly grow so pale
Bright eyes

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* Buildings For Dead People

We build buildings for the dead
We build restrooms for the sick
We build up walls for everything
We make a wall for the sake of it

And buildings for the people
And paintings for the blind
Are capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

And buildings for the people
And paintings for the blind
Are capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

Queue for bread is entertainment
When they're trying to blow your head off
So from the womb into the tomb
Making sure you feel at home

And buildings for the people
And paintings for the blind
Are capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

They're buildings for the people
And paintings for the blind
Capable of giving life
Or taking out your eyes

History will make us
Or history will break us
All time is the same
All the hindrances linger

We're treated just the same with fame
While branded in this reconciles
Get ready to say goodbye
Get ready to say goodbye

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* C

* Can't Take My Eyes Off You

You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You feel like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much

At last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you

Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak

So darling if you feel like I feel
Darling let me know if it's real
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you

I love you baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you baby
Trust in me when I say

Oh pretty baby
Don't bring me down I pray
Oh pretty baby
Now that I've found this day
So let me love you baby
Let me love you

You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You feel like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you

I love you baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you baby
Trust in me when I say

Oh pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh pretty baby
Now that I've found this day
So let me love you baby
Let me love you

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* Charles Windsor

Charles Windsor, who's at the door
At such an hour, who's at the door
In the back of an old green Cortina
You're on your way to the guillotine

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop off your head

Hundreds of bound big business men
Hacks from The Sun, military men
So many rich men weep in despair
On and on into Trafalgar Square

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop, chop your head

These once peaceful streets
The scenes of revenge you'd wished not to see
Revenge is so sweet for those who don't know anything sweet

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop, chop...
Chop off your head

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* Close My Eyes

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
Shake some hands and then I feel ashamed
I'm in control but I am out of time
I lost the need for any desire
Any desire

I had ambition but it slipped away
In holy goodness it is here to stay
It's not about us anymore
It's not about us
about us anymore

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
I open them up and I shut them again
Look at the crowd and then forget my part
Back to memory and then back to the start
Back to the start

Back to some familiar song
Back to reality, back to fuck-all
It's not about us anymore
It's not about us
about us anymore

Close my eyes and then I count to ten
Sign some papers and then they are my friends
Attempt to make a bed, my skin aches
Not even massage can make my body straight
My body straight

Count to ten and pretend I'm home
Just a job I get well paid for
It's not about us anymore
It's not about us
about us anymore

I close my eyes
I close my eyes

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* Comfort Comes

Need someone to nurse me
Reach out for the first person I see
Comfort's the helpless sole vanity
Caressing the broken heart of me

The difference between love and comfort
Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for enmity's saddest glare

I wish that someone would hold me
Wrap their arms around a shrinking somebody
Comfort comes and leads me to the morning
Whispered words of sanctuary

The difference between love and comfort
Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for enmity's saddest glare

Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for enmity's saddest glare

Forgetting how I hate self pity blondes
Comfort comes and smoothes her over
Callused hands turn a beautiful dress
Handcuffs now her pearl bracelets

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Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

Always feeling torn and slow
Love song cull destroy poem
Misery and trauma making love
Best go shoot the fucking doves

The past is so beautiful
The future like a corpse in snow
I think it's all the fucking same
It's a life sentence babe

A line of vodka tears inside
A shot of boredom helps my mind
Staring through a thousand dead eyes
I guess my nerves are brutalised

Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n'
Condemned to rock 'n' roll

No innocent exit when hope dies
And claustrophobia buys my mind
I ran to breathe contagious lies
No reasons for just living life
Ripcord opens but my soul is cold
With you I never felt more alone
Skin never sweating dignity
Kept my line beneath ecstasy

This fragile prison of sanity
An ocean wave to death babe
Masochistic love going nowhere
You're nothing, pestilience, a seed

Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n'
Oblivions all we know

Lips I kiss just another plague
Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made

Sterile like a line of piss, motherfucker
Review with avant garde lips, you're just a motherfucker

There's nothing I wanna see
There's nowhere I wanna go

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* Crucifix Kiss

"So mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating / So there so nowhere so hurting we fall between indifference / Rejection and the whole fucking wall we fall"

Christen me Führer Nazarene
Believe in tomorrow but not today
Give me all your possessions

Make poverty your perfect home
Allow your leaders to control you
Questions are now blasphemy

Why walk when you can crawl
Stay on your knees and kiss my feet
Censorship 'll stop your excess thought
Check your billboard for my tour

Listen to Luke, sermon six:
"And if one of the occupation troops
Forces you to carry his pack
One kilometer carry it two"

Be a tourist in the warzone
Interrogate scriptures and not your stinking home
That diet of bread and water's old

Now feed on alcohol drug and do as you're told
Now we'll take your number for a name
Soak mind control in christening water out of jail

Fall in love, fall in love with me
Nail a crucifix onto your soul...

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