Manic Street Preachers - Love's Sweet Exile Lyrics






between the billboard masturbation across highways of metallic isolation
there lies the deafening screaming of the millions wiping out the diseased pages
of apathy that bleed our innocence...

Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile

We blur into images of state coercion
Classified machines die misunderstood
City reflections pour out misery
We don't count cos we hate

Raindown alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Raindown alienation
Leave this country
Leave it

Despair seeps through and cuts our eyes
Unified collapse of everything inside
We understand but can't accept
You are not dead cos we hate

Raindown alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Raindown alienation
Leave this country
Leave it

Our lives drift into a faceless sense of void
Everything of meaning becomes destroyed
There's too much concrete for us to breathe
We are kept down cos we hate

Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile

Raindown alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country

Raindown alienation
Leave this country
Believe it

Love's sweet exile
Love's sweet exile

[Intro taken from 'The Eloquence In The Screaming', a poem by patrick jones]





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  1. /.... ....

    凄く好きな曲です。
    歌詞がいい。本当に心につき刺さる。

    It is a very favorite song.
    The lyrics and sound are good. I really stab my heart.

  2. s.... ....

    if i looked like richey edwards i wouldn't know how to act

  3. A.... M....

    Thank you * Manic Street Preachers * Cheers

  4. B.... D....

    Sean Moore is freaking beast on this track.

  5. l.... ....

    This video is my porn, Richey looks so damn hot

  6. N.... B....

    What a band 3/4 great albums

  7. I.... ....

    Richey is great guitar

  8. I.... ....

    save our souls

  9. I.... ....

    New York?

  10. I.... ....

    no burn

  11. I.... ....

    too cute

  12. I.... ....

    be together

  13. I.... ....

    metallic illusion

  14. I.... ....

    love that heart

  15. I.... ....

    love you, forever

  16. I.... ....

    Richey come back!!

  17. I.... ....

    come back

  18. I.... ....

    German chocolate

  19. I.... ....

    glucklich

  20. I.... ....

    Richey...

  21. I.... ....

    comment#

  22. M.... H....

    Nicky and Richey 😍🤤

  23. M.... N....

    have arm, will feel

  24. M.... N....

    only me that knows you watch autonomy

  25. n.... b....

    that intro made me have a stroke

  26. S.... F....

    daaaaaaamn!!!!!!!!! great song!!!!!!!!!!

  27. J.... T....

    Pre Nirvana. Better than Nirvana.

    J.... T....

    Jack Tripper get tae fuck

  28. h.... ....

    that intro so so gay. One of my favourites from their first album

  29. Q.... ....

    This video is the screensaver to my mind palace.

  30. A.... ....

    as potent as ever

  31. D.... F....

    Is Sean in a Batman mask

  32. K.... R....

    Such and orgasmic song with fuck off awesome riffs.

  33. �.... �....

    i dont know richey but id die for him

  34. L.... ....

    Not sure why the Manics always slag this one off; it stands as a great mission statement for the band at that point. It captures everything I love about the Edwards-era of the band: they stuck two fingers in the face of pretension and were completely direct with everything they were trying to say. And they could write a good tune, as well.

  35. M.... C....

    The bits of Nicky and Richey got me feeling some kind of way lmao

  36. E.... C....

    Richey and Nicky <3

  37. M.... W....

    2:25 - 2:31 Richey is effortlessly sexy here x x

  38. j.... ....

    So is this a drum machine or the actual guy playing?

    j.... ....

    Sean was forced to use a Drum Machine for the Album. Which he had to learn and programme.

    j.... ....

    Not all tracks.

  39. m.... ....

    I used to drool watching these guys back when I was 15!

  40. P.... A....

    I wish the entire video was just Nicky and Richey together

    P.... A....

    Could be gay.

    P.... A....

    If alive today, civil partnership, no doubt.

    P.... A....

    Nonsense Wire married when Richey was still around.

    P.... A....

    I ship them.

  41. K.... R....

    One of James' best guitar solos.

  42. b.... ....

    Nicky & Richey 4-ever! The male Wendy & Lisa, the male L-Word! Yeah BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!! *kiss-kiss*

    b.... ....

    Which one is Wendy and who is Lisa?

  43. z.... s....

    Damn it!

  44. R.... B....

    Pra ouvir no último volume. Arregaça o som!

  45. M.... C....

    Sexy as hell.

  46. m.... j....

    volume full,headphones in,lie back,enjoy

  47. U.... P....

    Does anyone have any info on the jacket at 1:15?

    U.... P....

    @Jose Lopez yes,it,s white with black writing

    U.... P....

    @Jose Lopez A jacket with the writing of a quote which reads "When i die i'll go to heaven because i've spent my time in hell". The author is unknown

    U.... P....

    +Jose Lopez
    "And When he gets to heaven,
    To Saint Peter he will tell;
    One more Soldier reporting, sir.
    I've served my time in Hell!"

    --PFC. James A. Donahue, USMC. 1st Marine Division, H Company, 2nd. Battalion, 1st. Regiment

  48. 2.... y....

    They r hot :D

  49. S.... M....

    Between the billboard masturbation across highways of metallic isolation there lies the deafening screaming of millions wiping out the diseased pages of apathy that bleeds our innocence.

  50. T.... ....

    Fuck papa john and his lame pizza....

  51. S.... M....

    the first manic song i heard in my life, back in 1992!...still sounds fresh...

  52. D.... S....

    **happy sigh** <3 this video...

  53. t.... h....

    because his 'missing' best friend is in it with him

  54. z.... ....

    culture sluts

  55. h.... ....

    agree with you girl

  56. L.... ....

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    Sexy bitches who rock!!!

  57. L.... ....

    3 people have no taste!

  58. L.... S....

    The best album guns and roses never wrote.

  59. A.... K....

    Nicky and Richey make good lesbians!

  60. M.... Q....

    I am kept down cause i hate!

  61. J.... M....

    this is so naughty video,but that's why i love it:)

  62. r.... ....

    Nicky too I think apart from that singlet thing

  63. m.... ....

    Are James and Richey secretly naked behind their guitars throughout all this?! (Look at them at 2:23) If so this video just got even hotter! :)

  64. B.... M....

    This song is ridiculously underrated

  65. O.... x....

    All rock n roll is homosexual

  66. s.... ....

    Have the Manics ever spoken about homosexuality?

  67. f.... ....

    Nicky has recently said on Twitter that this is the best Manics video. HMMM WONDER WHY

  68. c.... ....

    I'm probably pregnant.

  69. J.... R....

    This is one of those videos that make you wanna jump through the screen and get in there.

  70. A.... V....

    fuck you vevo!

  71. J.... T....

    I couldn't give a fuck if Van Halen are back, VEVO. Let me watch the damn video!

  72. A.... ....

    better than porn!

  73. d.... ....

    @iamjoshandyouaredaft Surely the best band out of Wales is The GLC?!?!?

  74. g.... ....

    Richey and Nicky... Mmmmm! :)

  75. p.... j....

    FUCKKKK YOU VEVOOOO BASTAAAAARD!!

  76. A.... F....

    00:16-00:26 on continuous loop. ;)

  77. s.... m....

    manics rock

  78. c.... ....

    It was as if a million Manics fangirls cried out orgasmically and were suddenly silenced.

  79. c.... ....

    @iwantmorrissey There's a wrong side of homoerotic?

  80. c.... ....

    @greenberetgirl <3

  81. S.... B....

    I love Richey & Nicky in this. Just on the right side of homoerotic.

  82. s.... ....

    & they've been airbrushed out of rocks history as if they never happened ! they was a documentary on bbc4 covering rock from the 50s til now & Suede got 5 mins & the Oasis-Blur tiff got 10 mins even the "dangerous" band I can't even remember the name of with that junkie Pete Doherty was in got 5 mins ! He wouldn't got a listening if it wasn't for the manics

  83. J.... T....

    Easily the best band to come out of Wales. The Stereophonics haven't got shit on these!