Roses in the Hospital Live

E' la nuova Song Of The Moment, da Gold Against The Soul del 1993 - il mio album preferito :)

Roses in the hospital

Roses in the hospital
Try to pull my fingernails out
Roses in the hospital
I want to cling to something soft
Roses in the hospital
Progressing like a constant war
Roses in the hospital
There's no one to feel ashamed for

All we wanted was a home
Now we are so strung out we wanna own
Like a leaf in the autumn breeze
Like a flood in January
We don't want your fucking love

Roses in the hospital
Stub cigarettes out on my arm
Roses in the hospital
Want to feel something of value
Roses in the hospital
Nothing really makes me happy
Roses in the hospital
Heroin is just too trendy

All we wanted was a home
Now we're so strung out we wanna own
Like a leaf in the autumn breeze
Like a flood in January
We don't want your fucking love

Roses in the hospital
This century achieved so much
Roses in the hospital
To make a voice no voice at all
Roses in the hospital
Flowers cannot express the loss
Roses in the hospital
Torn reflections of burnt out trash
Burnt out trash

Forever ever delayed
Forever ever delayed
Forever
Forever

Forever ever delayed
(Independence is a game)
Forever ever delayed
(Credibility, I'm yawning)
Forever
Forever
Rudi Rudi Rudi can't fail

Forever ever delayed
Forever delayed
Forever
Forever

Forever delayed
The West scratches onto my skin
Forever delayed
Contagious like a suntan
We never felt any sun
Rudi Rudi Rudi gonna fail

Indian Summer

Per il primo post del nuovo anno ho scelto una delle pochissime canzoni con un testo positivo; a dire il vero con tutto quello che sta succedendo in giro per il mondo ero dell'idea di usare tutt'altro, Of Walking Abortion per esempio, ma visto che sono della filosofia the best times are yet to come..

Forse quest'estate arriverà e ci schiarirà la mente / Per trovare l'impulso ad amare ancora la luce del sole..



Indian Summer

If God persists, persists in saying yes
I guess we’ll have, we’ll have to test ourselves
Maybe this summer will come and clear our minds
To find the impulse to love the sunshine

I guess we’ll have to test
Until there’s nothing left
We said that truth was fixed
It’s lost without a trace

Whose crime is eternity
When time lost is certainty
The Indian summer

Maybe this time we’ll kiss and we’ll not shake hands
Indian summer, still and unbroken
And leave all this material beneath
Remember the reasons
The reasons that made us be

I guess we’ll have to test
what's darker than ourselves
We said the truth was fixed
It’s lost without a trace

Whose crime is eternity
When time lost is certainty
The Indian summer…

I guess we’ll have to test
Until there’s nothing left
We said that truth was fixed
It’s lost without a trace…

Il video è quello ufficiale, Indian Summer è il 3° singolo estratto da Send Away The Tigers. Lo passano su MTV Italia? Se mi è capitato di vedere un paio di volte Autumnsong è già tanto!

Small Black Flowers..

Avrete sentito di quanto è successo ieri allo zoo di San Francisco - 4 tigri sono fuggite dalla loro gabbia ed hanno aggredito dei visitatori. Hanno ancora un senso gli zoo nel ventunesimo secolo? Vedere degli animali in gabbia è divertente? Più che per il morto e i feriti, e più che per la tigre uccisa - è quella della foto, un animale tenuto in quelle condizioni.. cos'altro ci si poteva aspettare? - che per lo meno ora è libera, provo pena per le 3 rimaste, che sono state catturate e rimesse in gabbia, e non possono fare altro che sognare i piccoli fiori neri che crescono nel cielo...



The small black flowers that grow in the sky

You have your very own number
They dress your cage in its nature
Once you roared now you just grunt lame
Pace around pathetic pound games

Wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
Wanna get out in here you're bred dead quick
For the outside
The small black flowers that grow in the sky

They drag sticks along your walls
Harvest your ovaries dead mothers crawl
Here comes warden, Christ, temple, elder
Environment not yours you see through it all

Wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
Wanna get out here you're bred dead quick
For the outside
The small black flowers that grow in the sky

Here chewing your tail is joy

Nuova Song of the Moment: Too cold here

Innanzitutto, ho cambiato il nome della sezione, ora è Song of the Moment, così la cambio ogni volta ke mi gira, nn più una volta al mese o alla settimana! E aggiungo l'etichetta Song Of The Day così potete trovare i post con le canzoni precedenti dall'elenco Etichette.

La nuova canzone è Too Cold Here, b-side di Revol - Enjoy !




"Too cold here"

Born in burial gowns, recessing slowly
You soon wish you couldn't see at all
Tortured in the mind, six voices alone
Futile gestures, emotionless groans
Everyone asks what's wrong, but what's right?
And a cute lie makes everything uptight
To kill your dream before it's considered
To live in silence, airless closet, no vision

It's easier to make love to a stranger than to ask a friend to call
Suspicion knows nothing and is known for not much at all, much at all

Too cold here
Turn yourself bleeding inside
Always look for walls to lean beside
Too cold here
Turn yourself bleed it's eyes
Always look for shade to cover your eyes

Self pity yourself is so shallow
I am so sick in mind and body, heart cold as stone

Whisky my coral, my piece of mind
Hello mr. samsung you can't clean my soul
Wake up sighing, mass for the bleeding
Never share sadness mine no man prays painless
Coalescing mine are hidden rooms,
Cannot give anything and never could

Prison it's only four walls but sometimes
The mind is the smallest prison of all,
Offering there upon offering
As a ball with a touch feels
Through it's fall, through it's fall.

Nuova Song of the Month: Send Away the Tigers acoustic version

Ho cambiato la Song of the Month che ascoltate di sottofondo nel sito, ora c'è la versione acustica di Send Away The Tigers, tratta dall'edizione giapponese del cd. Ringrazio stopme.wordpress.com per l'mp3 - la foto non c'entra niente ma mi ispirava X)


Edit 22.11: cambiata la Song of the Moment, per ascoltare Send Away The Tigers acoustic clickate play qui:




"Send Away The Tigers"

There's no hope in the colonies
So catch yourself a lifeline
Things have gone wrong too many times
So catch yourself a slow boat to china

Fixing some holes from the tigers claws
All your tears will be trembling
Stick those teeth into my back
Seasonal beasts keep them at bay

Can't something go right
Little things change people's lives
Hostile words won't fill your eyes
Same noise left too destroy

Loathsome smile head full of forever's
Will tomorrow bring some perfection
The zoos been overrun in Baghdad
Tiger's claws still in my back

Oh so send away the tigers
Because we're lonely and we're desperate
Oh so send away the tigers
Because they're creeping up and dangerous

I've got problems I've got too many of them
Throw away your yesterdays I did it all for you
Blank horizons & hotels rooms
Cheap Whiskey & god-awful truths
Look at me I'm honest & I'm free
I was born to underachieve

Oh so send away the tigers
Because we're lonely and we're desperate
Oh so send away the tigers
Because they're creeping up and dangerous

You stole the sun from my heart

Ultimamente riascolto spesso This Is My Truth.. questo è il video di You Stole The Sun From My Heart, una delle songs più belle dell'album - a mio modesto parere



"You Stole The Sun From My Heart"

Drinking - water to stay thin
Or is it to purify
I love you all the same

But there's no - no real truce with my fury
You don't have to believe me
I love you all the same

But you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from

You have - broken through my armour
And I don't have an answer
I love you all the same

I paint - the things I want to see
But it don't come easy
I love you all the same

But you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from

Think I'm - I'm lost among the undergrowth
So much so I woke up
I love you all the same

But you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from

I have - I've got to stop smiling
It gives the wrong impression
I love you all the same

Ho letto da qualche parte che quando è stato chiesto a Nicky a chi si riferisse nel testo della canzone ha detto a nessuno in particolare, ma il riferimento a Richey è evidente...

Break My Heart Slowly

Evitando improbabili paragoni con James - ke è un altro pianeta, anzi un altro universo! - trovo che Nicky abbia una voce molto affascinante.. Questo è uno dei singoli del suo solo album I Killed The Zeitgeist, uscito lo scorso anno.

Nicky lo descrive così nel suo sito: The relationship between artist and model / love triangles / being overwhelmed by ego and vanity / unconditional devotion turns to doomed failure. Glorious, fuzzy, super rock. (Magari domani lo traduco, adesso c'ho sonno lol!)




Edit 23.10: aggiungo oggi il testo, x il quale ringrazio lovemanics.com!

ฺBreak My Heart Slowly

"It’s scary to watch someone you love go into the centre of himself and confront his fears...
Fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane
You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little to come out the other side."

Break my heart slowly
Dora Maar said to me
She came to me in a dream
Reaching out for luck with fear

She said:
"Hold on, hold on, hold on to your gun"

It was cold, the night was black
You could feel her freezing hands
Exiting a life of chance
Painted dead a million times

She said:
"Hold on, hold on, hold on to your gun"

If your life has changed
If it makes no sense
You can carry on
If you still belong
If your life has changed
If it makes no sense
You can carry on
If you still belong

C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon

Break my heart slowly
Break my heart slowly

So c’mon now, c’mon now
So c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
So c’mon now, c’mon now
So c’mon, c’mon, c’mon

Life Becoming A Landslide - live

Questa è la mia canzone preferita dei Manics, è uno dei testi più belli che abbiano scritto, a mio parere. Il video è una versione live del 1994 dal festival di Glastonbury



"Life Becoming A Landslide"

Childbirth tears upon her muscle
Very first second a screaming icon
Babies in time barely even recognise
Words that once stroked now bruising tired lips

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a man

Everyday more numb to agony
This the howl this the sigh of the lonely
One day I realise oil on canvas
Can never paint a petal so so delicate

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a man
Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a...

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
A mile empty inside
Life becoming a landslide
Desire on its knees
Life becoming a landslide
A mile empty inside
Life becoming a landslide
Desire on its knees

Ready for Drowning

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr James Dean Bradfield: Ready For Drowning live




"Ready For Drowning"

Here's a true story
Said someone to me yesterday
Said he'd heard it in a taxi
Must have had him at my mercy
Drown that poor thing
Put it out of its misery
Condemn it to its future
Deny its history
Deny its history

So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning

Look through my venetian blinds
Dusting the past off of my mind
Seeing orange everywhere
I'd go to Patagonia
But it's harder there
I'll do anything to prove I care
Fascinated by good
Destroyed by evil
What is there to believe in

So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning

I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads

So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We are not waving we're drowning

Stay Beautiful

Uno dei primi video, da Generation Terrorists: Stay Beautiful



"Stay Beautiful"

Find your faith in your security
All broken up at seventeen
Jam your brain with broken heroes
Love your masks and adore your failure

We're a mess of eyeliner and spraypaint
D.I.Y. destruction on chanel chic
Deny your culture of consumption
This is a culture of destruction

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just

Babes on the run with poisoned lips
Wrap your arms round this everlasting kiss
Clinging to your own sense of waste
All we love is lonely wreckage

Your school your dole and your chequebook dreams
Your clothes your suits and your pension schemes
Now you say you know how we feel
But don't fall in love cos we hate you still

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just

Destroyed by madness, oh yeah
Destroyed by madness, oh yeah
Destroyed by madness, oh yeah
Anxiety is freedom

Underdogs

Questo video è nel sito ufficiale dei Manics ed è stupendo! E' composto da vari spezzoni dei loro vecchi video: li riconoscete tutti?



"Underdogs"

This one's for the freaks
For you're so beautiful
For all the devotion
Written in your soul

This one's for the freaks
For the lost and weak
For the butterflies and devotees
For the disciples of our destiny

And like the underdogs we are
Shining bright but now disappeared
And like the underdogs we are
Passing like some fading stars
Like some fading stars

This one's for the freaks
Beaten down and lost
The shy and withdrawn
Or just out of touch

May you stay like freaks
May you make mistakes
May ya will never break
For underdogs revenge is sweet, revenge is sweet

And like the underdogs we are
Shining bright but now disappeared
And like the underdogs we are
Passing like some fading stars
Like some fading stars

This one's for the freaks
This one's for the freaks
People like you, need to fuck
To fuck People like me
This one's for the freaks for the lost and weak
This one's for the freaks

Tsunami

"Tsunami"

For you my dear sister
Holding onto me forever
Disco dancing with the rapists
Your only crime is silence

Can't work at this anymore
Can't move I want to stay at home
Tied up to all these crutches
Never far from your hands

Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Can't speak, can't think, won't talk, won't walk

Doctors tells me that I'm cynical
I tell them that it must be chemical
So what am I doing girl
Cry into my drink I disappear

Eyes for teeth grating over me
Bring down the shadows of my mind
Sleep and breathe under our sheets
Inhale the anxiety in - between, in - between, in - between, in - between

Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me

Through September under the weather

In - between, in - between, in - between, in - between

Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami
Came washing over me

Take the GI's I will have the spies

Primo post lol

Benvenuti su Send Away The Tigers, il mio nuovo blog - e con questo sono a quota 3 lol - dedicato unicamente ai Manic Street Preachers. Per ki arriva qui dal link su BSBNews e nn conosce i Manics... questo blog nn sarà simile ai miei altri, nel senso ke nn posterò notizie varie, ma tutto quello ke mi capita sotto gli occhi navigando nel web e ke in qualche modo mi ispira. Se nn conoscete i Manics fate un salto su wikipedia lol

X quanto mi riguarda, ascolto i Manics da quando avevo 14, 15 anni - cioè secoli fa lol - da quando ho ascoltato x la prima volta Slash N' Burn. Gold Against The Soul è stato un album fondamentale x me, anke xkè all'epoca nn sono riuscita a procurarmi Generation Terrorists :,,,,( In Italia è alquanto difficile trovare i loro album, anke x questo li avevo xsi di vista da un po', This Is My Truth a suo tempo nn mi aveva preso molto, mentre ora lo sto rivalutando moltissimo, così nn seguendoli mi sono pure persa i lavori solisti di James e Nicky! Shame on me!
Anyway, Autumn Song mi ha riportato ai vekki tempi, mi ricorda moltissimo Motorcycle Emptyness, così Im back in the Manics mania lol E mi trovo a constatare ke, passati 15 anni da GT dei Manics da ste parti si parla ancora pochissimo e trovare i loro cd è ancora un'impresa! Anke x questo ho deciso di creare questo blog - oltre ke x nn continuare ad intasarmi il myspace di video dei Manics! Vorrei ke fossero + conosciuti, così magari con il prossimo tour passeranno anke in Italia, dato ke sono quasi 10 anni ke nn fanno concerti qui :( Così ho deciso di postare in italiano, o x lo meno posterò principalmente in italiano, xké a volte mi viene più facile usare l'inglese.. cmq, i prossimi post non saranno così logorroici lol questo è giusto la presentazione del blog

Detto questo, dato ke oggi - o forse è meglio dire ieri vista l'ora! - i Manics hanno vinto il Q Award come Best Single of the Year con Your Love Alone Is Not Enough, questo è il video:



"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"

Your love alone - is not enough not enough not enough
When times get tough they get tough they get tough they get tough

Trade all your heroes in for ghosts in for ghosts in for ghosts
They're always the one's that love you most love you most love you most

Your love alone - is not enough not enough not enough
It's what you felt it's what you said what you said what you said

You said the sky would fall on you fall on you fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed Blue they stayed Blue Baby Blue

But your love alone won't save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all you made it worse
It left you lonely it left you cursed

You stole the sun straight from my heart from my heart from heart
With no excuses just fell apart fell apart fell apart

No you won't make a mess of me mess of me mess of me
For you're as blind as a man can be man can be man can be

I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive
I could have placed us in exile
I could have shown you how too cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone is not enough


Nei prossimi post metterò un po' di video vecchi, sono in fase di riscoperta :), fra l'altro molti non li avevo mai visti xké all'epoca non passavano sulla vecchia VideoMusic - God bless YouTube! So stay tuned