Manic Street Preachers

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"Little Baby Nothing (With Traci Lords)"

No one likes looking at you
Your lack of ego offends male mentality
They need your innocence
To steal vacant love and to destroy
Your beauty and virginity used like toys

My mind is dead, everybody loves me
Wants a slice of me
Hopelessly passive and compatible
Need to belong, oh the roads are scarey
So hold me in your arms
I wanna be your only possession

Used, used, used by men
Used, used, used by men

All they leave behind is money
Paper made out of broken twisted trees
Your pretty face offends
Because it's something real that I can't touch
Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower

No god reached me, faded films and loving books
Black and white TV
All the world does not exist for me
And if I'm starving, you can feed me lollipops
Your diet will crush me
My life just an old man's memory

Little baby nothing
Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty
Dress your life in loathing
Breaking your mind with Barbie Doll futility

Little baby nothing
Sexually free, made-up to breakup
Assassinated beauty
Moths broken up, quenched at last
The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

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Se vi piacciono, posso fornirvi un po' di chicche su questo magnifico gruppo.

Prima band inglese ad avere avuto l'onore di suonare di fronte al Lider Maximo

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Questo è quello che sostengono dei fascisti




The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

And on the street tonight
an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings
of his glory days

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

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Manic Street Preachers support Cuba


24 July 2002 REVIEW BY TYRION PERKINS
Louder Than War: the Manic Street Preachers Live in Cuba
DVD featuring the Manic Street Preachers
Sony Music
Know Your Enemy
Manic Street Preachers
Sony Music
“I suppose we're making history because of the trade sanctions against Cuba. And who knows, hopefully we might make some sort of inroad”, said drummer Sean Moore before the Manic Street Preachers left for Havana, the first stop of their 2001 world tour.
The Manics have become successful in the British music scene and worldwide over the past 10 years with personal and left-wing lyrics that deal with numerous aspects of the pain and alienation of people trying to live in capitalist society. They are probably best known in Australia for “If You Tolerate this Your Children Will Be Next”, a song dedicated to those who volunteered to fight against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
When recording their sixth album, Know Your Enemy, the Manics realised they had a number of references to Cuba, including the song “Baby Elian” about the six-year-old boy who was taken to Miami in 2000 against the wishes of his Cuban dad. The band decided it wanted to show its support for Cuba by doing a concert in Havana.
The Louder Than War DVD not contains film of that concert, it includes a documentary shown on British TV as well as a more in-depth version.
Before they left for Cuba, lyricist/bass player Nicky Wire explained that “[Know Your Enemy] is about reaffirming our roots a bit and I guess the gig is as well... If you still believe in [communism] after all these years then it must mean something”.
Wire says he is most interested in the “Cuban spirit which everyone says is so different”. The DVD shows this most starkly with the band's interview with Radio Progresivo. Unlike the band's experiences with the British media (which wants “to nail you to a cross”. a band member observes), the Cuban interviewer had done thorough research about the Manics' history, and in between the conversation, plays a song from each album. Singer/guitarist James Bradfield plays “If You Tolerate This” live in the studio.
The Radio Progresivo interviewer is interested in the subjects of the band's songs as well as the evolution of their musical style. With sensitivity, he asks if it is alright to talk about Richey James, the band member who disappeared in February 1995 and has not been seen since.
At the end of the interview, Bradfield comments: “Robert Plant and even Paul McCartney came to Cuba but their visits were private... The Cuban people give love, but the Cubans need love too and [that's] the reason the Manic Street Preachers came.”
Louder Than War reveals the band's pre-concert nervousness about playing in front of an audience that has never heard of them and have grown up in a society that has such excellent musicians. Before going on stage, the band chats with Fidel Castro.
The concert includes many of the Manics' old favourites, such as “Motorcycle Emptiness”, “Design for Life”, as well as about half the songs that appear on Know Your Enemy.
Know Your Enemy includes a number of more overtly political songs, including “Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children” and “Baby Elian”. “Let Robeson Sing” is a song about Paul Robeson, the great US African-American singer, actor, civil rights activist and communist.
Of all their albums, Know Your Enemy has the widest variety of musical styles: fast and gentle; disco and folk; and, of course, rock. At first, I only liked about half of the 18 tracks but, as with their other albums, the rest later grew on me. This album projects more of a sense of fun and experimentation, and I think it is their best.
Although politically clearer than their last two albums, much of the politics is hard to grasp if you don't know the names and events mentioned. If they spike your curiosity enough, a visit to the Manics' web site will explain what the songs are about.
Accused of “selling out” because of their lyrics' alleged vagueness and their commercial success, the band released “Masses Against the Classes”, a song which samples Noam Chomsky. This song rose to number one on the British charts without promotion.
Visit the Manic Street Preachers' web site at <http://www.manics.co.uk>.
From Green Left Weekly, July 24, 2002.
Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.

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Canzone sul caso celeberrimo di Elian Gonzales e l'operazione Peter Pan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez

"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 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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Rendition

Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition
All the emeralds that are missing, oh I wish we still had jack lemon
Rendition, rendition I never knew the sky was a prison
It's a long hard revolution, oh good god I feel like a liberal

For tomorrow I will beg, steal and borrow
And at the moment I'm jumping at sorrow
I wish I knew what I did wrong
Can anybody hear the screaming of us? The screaming of us
In the long hard revolution

Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition
The CIA will stay invisible, oh good god I sound like a liberal
Rendition, rendition, I never knew the sky was a prison
It's a long hard revolution, oh good god I feel like a liberal

For tomorrow I will beg, steal and borrow
And at the moment I'm jumping at sorrow
I wish I knew what I did wrong
Can anybody hear the screaming of us? The screaming of us
In the long revolution

For tomorrow I will beg, steal and borrow
And at the moment I'm jumping at sorrow
I wish I knew what I did wrong
Can anybody hear the screaming of us? The screaming of us
In the long revolution