Manic Street Preachers - We Her Majesty's Prisoners Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers Lyrics

"We Her Majesty's Prisoners"

Jewels drip red and I don't sound proud
Treason is ambition I want dead procession
All we got unholy left-overs of a compromise
Leaving us like butterflies trapped in frost

Bow down

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

England's glory lives on in world wide genocide
So celebrate Buchenwald as her majesty's heir
Now an obsolete face on a currency of illusion
No matter what we own we can't buy freedom

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

Throw myself against you 'cause you ain't frail
Underneath silk riches sixty six million giving slaves
This needle of religion's gonna rust in my skin
Tear out and exit abeyance of created sin

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you, baby

Faces pressed at gates of anniversary torture
Without these fake images we'd never bow down
Don't need this history but we still accept
Conscripted into a past that invents our guilt

Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

Hello future
You're my lover

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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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