Simply put, its an ironic song about the media.
The manics were famous for winding up and manipulating the media for their own purpose.
"We are not your sinners
Our voices are for real"
The manics deliberately dressed themselves up as 'sinners' who provided the headlines for hysterical journalists (such as Steve Lamacq at NME). But the irony is that they are not these sinners, they are for real.
So in a media sense they aren't for real as their 'sin' is fake, but in every other sense they are for real as it is the media which is false.
The 'you love us' lines in the chorus, are directed at the same people, the media loved the manics because they provided a source of hysteria, headlines and a focus for people to idolise. What the manics knew ("we realised" "we won't die of devotion") was that they were idolising something which wasn't real (a "statue" or a "uniform").
Interesting that if you throw acid in the face of a statue it would disfigure it, ironically making it more real as it is fake in the first place.
Simply put, its an ironic song about the media. The manics were famous for winding up and manipulating the media for their own purpose.
"We are not your sinners Our voices are for real"
The manics deliberately dressed themselves up as 'sinners' who provided the headlines for hysterical journalists (such as Steve Lamacq at NME). But the irony is that they are not these sinners, they are for real. So in a media sense they aren't for real as their 'sin' is fake, but in every other sense they are for real as it is the media which is false.
The 'you love us' lines in the chorus, are directed at the same people, the media loved the manics because they provided a source of hysteria, headlines and a focus for people to idolise. What the manics knew ("we realised" "we won't die of devotion") was that they were idolising something which wasn't real (a "statue" or a "uniform").
Interesting that if you throw acid in the face of a statue it would disfigure it, ironically making it more real as it is fake in the first place.