Manic Street Preachers(often known colloquially as "The Manics") are a Welsh rock band often associated with the Britpop scene, who gained mainstream popularity in the UK in the late 1990s. They are known for their intelligent and often political lyrics and have a dedicated cult following. Although during the early part of their career they were regarded as a punk rock band, their music is now often generally regarded as alternative rock, due to changes in their sound. Co-lyricist and guitarist Richey James Edwards (Richey James, as he preferred to be known) mysteriously disappeared in 1995; his whereabouts is unknown. Politically, the Manics appear as a socialist group — a stance inflected by their working class upbringing in Blackwood, south Wales (they grew up during the miners' strike of the 1980s) as evidenced by their often highly politicised lyrics and actions (they once dedicated an award to Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and later the Socialist Labour Party).
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Freedom Of Speech Won’t Feed My Children Lyrics
Manic Street Preachers
Lyrics by nicky wire, music by james dean bradfield and sean moore
Liberty, sweet liberty
Charitable respectability
Then pacifism killed us all
For all the tourists on the berlin wall
So we protest about human rights
Worship obesity as our birthright
But freedom of speech wont feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
We love to kiss the dalai lamas ass
Because he is such a holy man
Free to eat and buy anything
Free to fuck from paris to beijing
Little boys with dangerous toys
All bow down to the beastie boys
But freedom of speech wont feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Royalty - hereditery - unelected and becalmed
Just like stalin, just like stalin
Human and useless
Bomb the chinese embassy
The west is free, oh the west is free
Laugh at the hammer and sickle
It is antique, oh it is antique
And see the love in richard geres eyes
Js pemberton saved our lives
But freedom of speech wont feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing