Manic Street Preachers
New Art Riot - Live at the Astoria, December 1994
[Spoken - James Dean Bradfield]
(Called) 'New Art Riot'
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Vintage aromas
And vintage ideals
Old men greying to a dying country's needs
Waiting for a knighthood
To while away the hours
Listen and learn now
It's time to kill your 'betters'
[Chorus]
Museums are dead, take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Hospital closures kill
More than car bombs ever will!
But it saves money to get-
People are expendable
Cold shoulder insurgents
Yet love arms dealers
Everybody's taking drugs bеcause
It makes governing еasier
[Chorus]
Museums are dead, take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
Sell out the past and learn to obey, hey!
You spit out and douse a Molotov cocktail
[Instrumental Interlude/ Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Revolution soon dies
Sold out for a pay rise
China, Russia, England:
All washed up in power abuse
Terrorism is an excuse
That the ruling class use
Wipe out aristocracy now
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
[Chorus]
England makes judgements of old school propaganda
The only threat to heads are failed to [?] and power
Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
[Instrumental Outro]