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ARTISTS: Manic Street Preachers
SONG: Little Baby Nothing
ALBUM: Generation Terrorist
Intro:
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No one likes looking at you
Your lack of ego offends male mentality
They need your innocence
To steal vacant love and to destroy
Your beauty and virginity used like toys
My mind is dead, everybody love's me
Wants a slice of me
Hopelessly passive and compatible
Need to belong, oh the roads are scarey
So hold me in your arms
I wanna be your only possession
Used, used, used by men
Used, used, used by men
All they leave behind is money
Paper made out of broken twisted trees
Your pretty face offends
Because it's something real that I can't touch
Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower
No God reached me, faded films and loving books
Black and white tv
All the world does not exist for me
And if I'm starving, you can feed me lollipops
Your diet will crush me
My life just an old man's memory
Little baby nothing
Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty
Dress your life in loathing
Breaking your mind with barbie doll futility
Little baby nothing
Sexually free, made-up to breakup
Assassinated beauty
Moths broken up, quenched at last
The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by
You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair
You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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steven Lead Player |
#1 by steven ratliff at Oct 21, 1977 at 7:51 AM EST |
| This song is not only a biopic of how women are treated but also a metaphor of how men with feminine traits are viewed. This especially applies to Richey and Nicky with all the dress that they wore etc. The fact that Richey was anorexic in itself is a feminine trait. Self abuse is considered feminine, and abuse of others out of pity for yourself is considered masculine. The line "you are pure, you are snow" is especially intersting. Richey always seemed to view snow as perfection or purity (see 4st 7lb "I want to walk in the snow and not soil its purity") but in this case, it refers to the masculine side. So he's saying that society views this as perfection for a male and the rest are condemned to a life of being "useless sluts" despite the fact that he holds this in much higher esteem. By the way, "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" according to Richey was the central theme for every Manics song, their actions and their reasons for creating art. It was the original working title for Generation Terrorists but the record company said it was too depressing and not PC, preferring Generation Terrorists. And lets be perfectly honest, that's not really PC either!!! | |
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Austin Wanna Be |
#2 by Austin Skitowski at Apr 4, 1985 at 10:52 PM EST |
| Definitely a classic song. | |
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Bobby Lead Player |
#3 by Bobby Parker at Jan 18, 1990 at 12:06 PM EST |
| amazing song REPUNZEL!! | |
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leester Professional |
#4 by leester at Aug 24, 1991 at 8:41 PM EST |
| My my, how the worm turns...or maybe how i turn at least. The side of this song relating to female abuse, although true and requiring notice, seems very un PC to me now. Exactly who is there for the men who are trampled and used by the assertive females? It was this kind of over the top attitude that created the sexist opinion we have today. Not ALL men are abusers, not all men use Rohypnol and want theyre women to be submissive. Some men are passafists, and end up being exploited, used and ultimately broken by females who beleive that all men are evil selfish, using demons, and so therefor deserve bad treatment for it. We need to clean up the reputation men get. We are not all useless, sexually driven, lazy heaps of crap as advertising, music, movies and womens day time TV would have us all believe. | |
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kyle Average |
#5 by kyle anderson at Apr 1, 1992 at 8:14 PM EST |
| yeah a very good classic indeed, sung very well aswell, | |
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