Yes- Live at the Astoria, December 1994

By Manic Street Preachers

On The Holy Bible 20 (Deluxe)

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[Spoken - James Dean Bradfield]

This is about the least progressive

Word in the English dictionary, and it’s called

“Yes”


[Instrumental Introduction]


[Verse 1]

For sale? Dumb cunts, same dumb questions

Oh virgins, listen

All virgins are liars, honey

And I don't know what I'm scared of

Or what I even enjoy

Dulling, get money, but

Nothing turns out like you want it to


[Chorus]

And in these plagued streets

A pity you can buy anything

For 200, anyone can concieve a God on video

He's a boy, you want a girl, so tear off his cock

Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita

If you want


[Bridge]

I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank

You, puking, shaking, sinking

I still stand for old ladies

Can't shout, can't scream-


[Instrumental Interlude]


[Verse 2]

I 'T' them, 24/7, all year long

Purgatory's circle, drowning here

Someone will always say yеs

Funny place for the social

For the insеcts to start caring

Just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff


[Verse 1]

For sale? Dumb cunts, same dumb questions

Oh virgins, listen

All virgins are liars, honey

And I don't know what I'm scared of

Or what I even enjoy

Dulling, get money, but

Nothing turns out like you want it to


[Chorus- with partially-spoken Nicky Wire]

And in these plagued streets

A pity you can buy anything

For 200, anyone can concieve a God on video

He's a boy, you want a girl, so tear off his cock

Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita

If you want

If you want!


[Bridge]

I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank

You, puking, shaking, sinking

I still stand for old ladies

Can't shout, can't scream-

Power produces desire, the weak have none

There's no lust in this coma

Even for a fifty

Solitude, solitude, the-


[Instrumental Interlude/Cheering]


[Verse 3]

The only certain thing

That is left about me:

There's no part of my body that has not been used

Pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame

Everyone I've loved, or hated-


[Chorus- with partially-spoken Nicky Wire]

And in these plagued streets

A pity you can buy anything

For 200, anyone can

Concieve a God on video

He's a boy, you want a girl, so tear off his cock

Tie his hair in bunches

Fuck him!


[Bridge]

Power produces desire, the weak have none

There's no lust in this coma

Even for a fifty

Solitude, solitude, the-

Dont hurt, just obey

Lie down, do as they say

May as well be heaven

This hell smells the same

On sunless afternoons I can't-


[Instrumental Interlude]


[Instrumental Outro/Cheering]