We are not your sinners
Our voices are for real
We realised and won't be mourned
We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms

We won't die of devotion
Understand we can never belong
Thrown some acid on the Mona-Lisa's face
Pollute your mineral water
with a strychnine taste

You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love

Until I see love in statues
Your lessons drill inherited sin
Parliament's a fake life saver
You better wake up and smell the real flavour

You love us like a holocaust
Same P.R. problem as E.S.T.
You love us like a holocaust
Same P.R. problem as E.S.T.

You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love us
You love


Lyrics submitted by Thom Webbe

You Love Us Lyrics as written by Nicholas Jones James Bradfield

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    Last verse to a drum sample of 'lust for life' by iggy pop

    Thom Webbeon April 11, 2004   Link
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    This was done when they were on the Heavenly record label before they signed to Epic. Richey looks quite sick in the video, or maybe it's just the lighting.

    my nothingon May 11, 2005   Link
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    Pure manics bravado- I love it. Full of outrageous claims and their supposed inability to bond with an audience even though the audience loves them. This is back from the times when they were cracking jokes about the humor of lennon getting shot, or paving over glastonbury stadium or wherever.

    thisnameplson April 17, 2011   Link
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    What does James sing at the last?

    nava115370on October 17, 2014   Link

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