Show Me The Wonder

General Comment"It’s the one uplifting song on the album - slap James’ electric guitar on that and you could have had a more traditional Manics song. We were obsessed with 70s Elvis at the time - the horns are from our Mums and Dads' record collection, ‘Suspicious Minds’, ‘I Just Can’t Help Believing’- it gives me a lift every time I hear it. Just that celebration, the idea that we’re sick of the opposing forces of science and religion trying to prove truth. We just wanted to wallow in the magic of how something you see, a song, how certain things work, how certain individuals are unexplainable, a good haircut, the way a drummer will react to a guitar, the way a footballer will be truly stunning without even trying - science or religion just cannot explain certain things."

-Nicky Wire

• No Replies Log in to reply

General CommentI believe there are some verses that are wrong here, but not all of them I can hear any better, but in any case the chorus should probably be:
"Show me the wonder
I have seen the birthplace of the(ir?) (my?) universe
Show me the wonder
I have seen their records move in reverse"

and "When we look into the mirror
Staying so patient"

Also "but I'm true to what ails" is most certainly incorrect, but I haven't the foggiest idea what he's singing there.

Cheers

• No Replies Log in to reply

General CommentThis is no threat
Just an invitation
A sense of belonging
A sense of inspiration

Is Heaven a place
Where nothing ever happens?
is it too much to ask
To disbelieve in everything?

Show Me The Wonder
I have seen the birthplace of the universe
Show Me The Wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse

If you're exiled
By all the cruel tongues
Then show me the wonder
The wonder of your love

The tapping pain of madness
Running through the veins
We may write in English
But our truth remains in Wales

Show Me The Wonder
I have seen the birthplace of the universe
Show Me The Wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse

Praying for the silence
When we look into the mirror
Staying so patient
We measure the nostalgia

Is Heaven a place
Where nothing ever happens?
is it too much to ask
To disbelieve in everything?

Show Me The Wonder
I have seen the birthplace of the universe
Show Me The Wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse
Show Me The Wonder
I have seen miracles move in reverse


Source: walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music/…

• No Replies Log in to reply