Faster - Live at the Astoria, December 1994

[Spoken- James Dean Bradfield]

This is dedicated to Oliver Stone

Its called 'Faster'

[Instrumental Introduction]

[Verse 1]

I am an architect, they call me a butcher

I am a pioneer, they call me primative

I am purity, they call me perverted

Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave

[Pre-Chorus- with partially-spoken Nicky Wire]

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 the cleansed repented

[Chorus- with partially-spoken Nicky Wire]

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

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 2]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

Sleep can't hide the 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 to honest with myself

I should've lied like everybody else

[Chorus- with partially-spoken Nicky Wire]

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

Learn how to fucking spell!

[Instrumental Interlude/ Guitar solo]

[Outro]

So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything!