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Emily - Emily your gift to me
Emily - a modern sense of beauty
Emily as precious as your memory
A simple word called liberty
The relics the ghosts down so many roads
The relics the ghosts down so many roads
Emily - so pity poor Emily
You've been replaced by charity
It's what you forget
What you forget that kills you
It's what you remember
What you remember that makes you
We used to have answers
Now we have only questions
But now have no direction
The relics the ghosts down so many roads
The relics the ghosts down so many roads
Emily - so pity poor Emily
You've been replaced by charity
It's what you forget
What you forget that kills you
It's what you remember
What you remember that makes you
We used to have answers
Now we have only questions
But now have no direction
Emily - a modern sense of beauty
Emily as precious as your memory
A simple word called liberty
The relics the ghosts down so many roads
Emily - so pity poor Emily
You've been replaced by charity
What you forget that kills you
It's what you remember
What you remember that makes you
We used to have answers
Now we have only questions
But now have no direction
The relics the ghosts down so many roads
Emily - so pity poor Emily
You've been replaced by charity
What you forget that kills you
It's what you remember
What you remember that makes you
We used to have answers
Now we have only questions
But now have no direction
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Submitted by
matt675 On Dec 01, 2004
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This is about Emmeline (Emily) Pankhurst, one of the founders of the suffragette movement in England, apparently. Nicky Wire said that the song is about "the idea that an icon of Pankhurst's standing, who really tried to do something good, who got women's sufferage and got women the vote, can be replaced by someone as obviously empty as Princess Diana as a feminist icon" (info courtesy of www.manics.nl).
yeah richeye is right....i think its amazing that the manics dont get better press for writing songs like this, whereas the kooks or whoever just write bland songs about nothing and get all the acclaim.
'replaced by charity' is the reference to diana there i reckon.
COuld also be about Emily Davidson, the suffragette that threw herself under the kings horse at the races.
Again, this is half about Richey, half about Emily Pankhurst
The Manics just keep getting better and better...
I was just skimming through to see whether they wrote any love songs, after Nicky said he despised them. Strike this one off.
@manic4manics they have loads of love songs - they're all for the same person, though ;)
@manic4manics they have loads of love songs - they're all for the same person, though ;)
It's also about the irony of having Diana as a feminist icon rather than Emily Pankhurst or Emily Davidson, who campaigned for women's rights.
http://www.ianwatsonuk.com/manics.html
http://www.ianwatsonuk.com/manics.html
Again, this is half about Richey, half about Emily Pankhurst