Intravenous Agnostic

Manic Street Preachers

Into a vein exhibit the derelict
A secular mosaic distracted at birth
A Cubist abstraction let it live forever
Narcissism so lonely so live by the sea

What a mess

Cosmetic - polemic
Distinguished by relics
Destructive aesthetic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous

Brutality is needed in capitalist society
Television abandoned my very entity
Nature failed me
But then it made me
We all pray for pluralist babies

Cosmetic - polemic
Distinguished by relics
Destructive aesthetic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous

Dismayed - dispossessed
Life becomes Calvanist
So sparkle and believe
Linguistics die easily

Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous agnostic
Intravenous


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    As agnostic is someone who believes it is impossible to know the truth about god and therefore does not follow religion, maybe this song is using the same argument about the disenfranchised people in society who just accept that politics is corrupt and there is nothing we can do about it, we can not know the truth as the media follow there capitalist owners interests.

    pjb097on April 30, 2016   Link

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