Archives of Pain - US Mix [Remastered]

By Manic Street Preachers

On The Holy Bible 20 (Deluxe)

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[Sampled Intro]

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


[Verse 1]

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

As a killer

As a killer


[Pre-Chorus]

A drained whitе body hangs from the gallows

It's more righteous than Hindlеy's crotchet lectures

Pain, not penance - forget martyrs, remember victims

The weak die young and right now we crouch to make them strong


[Chorus]

Kill Yeltsin, who's saying?

Zhirinovsky, Le Pen

Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allitt, Sutcliffe

Dahmer, Nilsen, Yoshinori Ueda

Blanche and Pickles, Amin and 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


[Verse 2]

Execution needed

A bloody vessel for your peace

If man makes death, death makes man

Tear the torso with horses and chains

Let 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


[Chorus]

Kill Yeltsin, who's saying?

Zhirinovsky, Le Pen

Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allitt, Sutcliffe

Dahmer, Nilsen, 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!


[Instrumental Outro]


[Guitar Solo]