Lyrics Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers

First Republic

You are so alone in kensington palace

We should be content in these damp terraces

Thank you for this view from our council estates

I hope you have really guillotined your own head

I crown myself, myself a king

And declare a first republic

We want to play, yes we want to play

In burnt out palace ruins

You once gave us war, racism and slavery

Cut out all our tongues and fucked our industry

Now youve revealed something, youre human after all this

But lets clap our hands and fuck our dear princess

I crown myself, myself a king

And declare a first republic

We want to play, yes we want to play

In burnt out palace ruins

I crown myself, myself a king

And declare a first republic

We want to play, yes we want to play

In burnt out palace ruins

I crown myself, myself a king

And declare a first republic

We want to play, yes we want to play

In burnt out palace ruins