Manic Street Preachers - Prologue To History Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers Lyrics

"Prologue To History"

Were we the Kinnock factor?
Am I talking private sector?
Do I think I'm Shaun William Ryder?
Or my former friend who's now undercover?
He's gone, I'm no deserter
Perhaps I'm hard, all the same

Today a poet who can't play guitar
Tomorrow Steve Ovett has injured his calf
Next year the world's greatest politician
Yesterday the boy who once had a mission
I don't wanna be a prologue to history
A prologue to histo-

So I water my plants with Evian
A brand-new Dyson that is decadent
Read the papers and the business section
Check out the TESSAs and the pensions
Call my friends and they're alright
So I pray for the safety of the night

Today a poet who can't play guitar
Tomorrow Steve Ovett has injured his calf
Next year the world's greatest politician
Yesterday the boy who once had a mission
I don't wanna be a prologue to history
A prologue to histo-

Remember ethnic cleansing in the Highlands
No one says a thing in the middle of England
I'm bruised fruit but still taste so nice
But if you look at me, you better look twice
I'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks
An empty vessel who can't make contact

Today a poet who can't play guitar
Tomorrow Phil Bennett's playing outside half
Next year the world's greatest politician
Yesterday the boy who once had a mission
I don't wanna be a prologue to history
A prologue to history
A prologue to history
A prologue

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Thanks to Cheryl L for adding 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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