"Strip It Down" lyrics

"Strip It Down"

Ain't no fun at the government hall
Slicked-back injustice sits nicely next to smiles
Paranoia at the heels of too much greed
Obedience an art form while the sad bleed

Success and love dictate while skin touches fashion
Consumerism beauty for cheap appeal
I don't wanna dance for people to watch
Smother my life in interest accounts

Outside life brings down genocide
And consumer self-hate leads to designer bullshit
Hate is art and we steal cars
Decaying flowers in the playground of the rich

You can launch sweetly and say nice things
But I ain't ever on the way up
My only way is down on disease that tries to suffocate
The pure ideals that turn to hate

Strip it down


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)
Sorrow 16
(from "Motown Junk" single)
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)
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)
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