A Design for Life (first rehearsal, Cardiff '95) Songtext
von Manic Street Preachers

Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now
For a shallow piece of dignity?

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my dirty face
To wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don′t talk about love
We only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life


I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my pretty face
To wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don't talk about love
We only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life

We don′t talk about love
We only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for...