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Empty souls will leave their homes
To find a place where they're alone
Rattling memories and hollow bones
Leaves a taste so bitter and cold
For empty souls will stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know
Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the twin towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls
For empty souls they stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know
Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the twin towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls.
To find a place where they're alone
Rattling memories and hollow bones
Leaves a taste so bitter and cold
For empty souls will stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know
Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the twin towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls
For empty souls they stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know
Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the twin towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls
Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls.
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This song is brilliant! It has this U2 - New Year's Day vibe going on with the keyboards and lyrical contetnt.
Too bad they had to edit the single cuz of the line "collapsing like the twin towers". Are people still that sensitive?
forever delayed - on a jo whiley interview on the forever delayed greatest hits album they said they would like to make a "sparse and wintery album". enter lifeblood...did they do it well? oh yes, I thought the same thing as you, very wintery - its like the manics have an album for every season now:)
This is probably my favourite song off the phenomenal Lifeblood album, the keyboard melody really makes the song. I haven't listened to the single version just yet, but it is a real shame if they have left that lyric out. After all, that's what really has made the manics. No other band could get away with lyrics comparing to the collapsing of the world trade centre, but the manics are beyond that. Rather than just a sick make up of lyrics, Wire being the genius that he is uses this comparison in a very relevant context, and i really do like this song. Those that haven't bought the lifeblood album yet really should, even just for this song.
The Lifeblood album is by far their best since Everything Must Go. I really like this song but i think i disagree with you on the twin towers line, i'm not offended by it or anything, but i feel like the Manics are trying too hard to be the Manics... if that makes sense... i.e they want to be the old Manics were they shocked people through their lyrics, i might be wrong though. It's the same with The Love Of Richard Nixon, perhaps trying to hard to be that band that politcally shocked people. But don't get me wrong, the Manics are still my favourite band, before someone tells me to piss off. But on a more general thing, is it just me or is Lifeblood a very wintery album? Like i can imagine myself walking through a blizzard or something. Like the sparce piano on this song, the elegance of Live to fall Asleep, The cold driving guitars on To Repel Ghosts, The broken lyrics of A Song For Departure, The wishful lyrics of Solitude Sometimes Is, the funky bassline on Always/never... ok maybe i've went too far, but i think it's something to think about.
i love this song - it's on the radio now...
think lifeblood has been verry underated and should be praised a lot more. best song on the album
This, along with The Love of Richard Nixon is my favourite song from Lifeblood I also agree that it is a pretty underrated album, but I guess maybe some people just couldn't connect with it. It's pretty different, if that makes sense.
JDB does such a brilliant vocal performance on this track :) His voice is so underrated!
The song is about death and coming to terms with it.
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Colossal endless like a marathon