| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| It took you a week to come up with that response. Do you realise how that makes you look? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| And I, in turn, shall consider that as vindication of my opinion of your intellect. Game, set and match. | |
| Pulp – Common People Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Apparently based on true events when Jarvis was studying at St Martin's. The girl in question was the daughter of a Greek shipping magnate (or something), and wanted to live like a poor person to improve "her art." | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Oooh, get you, Oscar Wilde. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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It's actually explicitly about zoo animals and the way they react to their conditions. It was written after Nicky and Richey watched a documentary about this subject. Any attempt to relate it to human life is purely coincidental (but probably very apt). |
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| Manic Street Preachers – La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| It's about how the elderly, especially veterans, are (mis)treated by society. Lines such as "wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir" and "I sold my medal, it paid a bill" reinforce this idea. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Well, put simply, you're wrong. It's about how working class identity has changed while perception hasn't. The lines "we don't talk about love, we only want to get drunk" is a comment on how the working class are perceived, not how they behave. | |
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