Manic Street Preachers - Donkeys Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers Lyrics

"Donkeys"

Put some lipstick on
At least your lies will be pretty
A shadow on my face
And us donkeys wake up weary

Sweating and sickly
Donkeys don't allow their tears
No emotion never feel
And drown themselves in whatever

Find some meaning
Donkeys weight cracking a spine

Sweetness bent double
Whole days making polite
Never moving out of turn
Or even trying to be natural

Those with silence inside
Eyes bare piss holes in the snow
Drained and burnt yellow
And sunk in self-pity

Jerusalem sawn off
Donkeys are only left with lies
Are only left with lies

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Thanks to Cheryl L for adding these lyrics.
Thanks to Rachel E for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Nicholas Allen Jones, Sean Anthony Moore, James Dean Bradfield

compilation: "Lipstick Traces (A Secret History Of Manic Street Preachers)" (2003)

Manic Street Preachers - Lipstick Traces (A Secret History Of Manic Street Preachers) compilation cover

Prologue To History

(from "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" single)

4 Ever Delayed

Sorrow 16

(from "Motown Junk" single)

Judge Yr'self

Socialist Serenade

(from "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" single)

Donkeys

(from "Roses in the Hospital" single)

Comfort Comes

(from "Life Becoming A Landslide" single)

Mr Carbohydrate

(from "A Design for Life" single)

Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

(from "A Design for Life" single)

Horses Under Starlight

(Instrumental)

Sepia

(from "Kevin Carter" single)

Sculpture Of Man

(from "Faster/P.C.P." single)

Spectators Of Suicide

Democracy Coma

(from "Love's Sweet Exile/Repeat" single)

Strip It Down

(from "You Love Us (Heavenly)" single)

Bored Out Of My Mind

(from "Motorcycle Emptiness" single)

Just A Kid

(from "Ocean Spray" single)

Close My Eyes

(from "The Masses Against the Classes" single)

Valley Boy

(from "The Everlasting" single)

We Her Majesty's Prisoners

(from "Motown Junk" single)

We Are All Bourgeois Now

Rock 'N' Roll Music

It's So Easy

Take The Skinheads Bowling

Been A Son

Out Of Time

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

Last Christmas

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"Donkeys" lyrics

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