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Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb (Live London Astoria 94)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Sean Moore
Sean Moore
Composer
Richey Edwards
Richey Edwards
Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Steve Brown
Steve Brown
Producer

Lyrics

Days since I last pissed cheeks sunken and despaired So gorgeous sunk to six stone, lose my only remaining home See my third rib appear a week later all my flesh disappear Stretching taut, cling film on bone, I'm getting better Karen says, I've reached my target weight Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake Problem is diet's not a big enough word I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view I want to walk in the snow And not leave a footprint I want to walk in the snow And not soil its purity Stomach collapsed at five lift up my skirt my sex is gone Naked and lovely and 5ft, 2 may I bud and never flower My vision's getting blurred but I can see my ribs and I feel fine My hands are trembling stalks and I can feel my breasts are sinking Mother tries to choke me with roast beef And sits savoring her sole ryvitta "That's the way you're built?, my father said But I can change, my cocoon shedding I want to walk in the snow And not leave a footprint I want to walk in the snow And not soil its purity Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat All things I like looking at Too weak to fuss, too weak to die Choice is skeletal in everybody's life I choose, my choice, I starve to frenzy Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me Self worth scatters, self esteems a bore I long since moved to a higher plateau This discipline's so rare so please applaud Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so Yeah, 4st.7lb, an epilogue of youth Such beautiful dignity in self abuse I've finally come to understand life Through staring blankly at my navel
Writer(s): Nicholas Allen Jones, Sean Anthony Moore, James Dean Bradfield Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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