A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun Lyrics

Lyric discussion by johnobrow 

Cover art for A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun lyrics by Manic Street Preachers

This song, like many by the Manic Street Preachers, is about the 'spectacle' as described in Guy Debord's 1967 essay 'The Society of the Spectacle'.

It based on that and The Machine Stops by EM Forster.

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