"Failure Bound" lyrics

"Failure Bound"

Provincial Lolitas sprawling in high heels
Untamed nature dies
Failure-bound and in your eyes
See the prams they push around
Benefits and drugs are found
Sad-eyed, lonely, failure-bound
Ashen-faced skin, failure-bound

And the boys tattooed and jeweled
Failure-bound and muscled
The skin of tragedy, forlorn and dead
Eternal rut with no prospects

I listen to money singing
It's like looking down from long French windows on a provincial town
The slums, the canal, the church is ornate and mad
In the evening sun it is intensely sad

Failure-bound
Failure-bound

Provincial Lolitas sprawling in high heels
Untamed nature dies
Failure-bound, in your eyes
See the prams they push around
Benefits and drugs are found
Sad-eyed, lonely, failure-bound
Ashen-faced skin, failure-bound

And the boys tattooed and jeweled
Failure-bound and muscled
The skin of tragedy, forlorn and dead
Eternal rut with no prospects

I listen to money singing
It's like looking down from long French windows on a provincial town
The slums, the canal, the church is ornate and mad
In the evening sun it is intensely sad

Failure-bound
Failure-bound

Provincial Lolitas sprawling in high heels
Untamed nature dies
Failure-bound and in your eyes
See the prams they push around
Benefits and drugs are found
Sad-eyed, lonely, failure-bound
Ashen-faced skin, and failure-bound
Failure-bound


album: "Lifeblood" (2004)
Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood album cover
Askew Road
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Everything Will Be
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Everyone Knows / Nobody Cares
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Voodoo Polaroids
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Quarantine (In My Place Of)
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
All Alone Here
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Dying Breeds
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Litany
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Failure Bound
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
No Jubilees
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
Antarctic
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
The Soulmates
(Lifeblood 20 Bonus Track)
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