Manic street preachers Patrick Bateman (la tristesse durera)

patrick bateman, rare B-side from la tristesse durera (scream to a sigh) by Manic street preachers. Sorry, no video
lyrics
Oh say can you see / By the dawn's early light / What so proudly we hailed / At the twilight's last gleaming"

He's a real cool guy and he's a hero of mine
Travis, Rhinehart rolled into one cute son
Less than zero a grotesque nightmare
Subtly disturbing like normal behaviour

I understand nothing and I cannot speak
I'd walk in the park but the trees are diseased
No sweetheart and I am too confused
I only love my watch and my snakeskin shoes

I feel so small in the supermarket queue
People seem to laugh at my choice of food
My personality is held together with Sellotape
A loose fit just like a numb junkies' hate

I pretty my face with all this cream and stuff
Ugliness inside much harder to cover up
I lack the thought to care about politics
Just do what I like ain't that democratic

Genesis, Huey Lewis, Filofax, CD 5
A backdrop to discuss over expensive wine
Didn't even know when or why I should stop
I feel so stupid like a joke that belongs

I guess all psychos are made out of money
I cannot be saved as liberals keep telling me
I don't wanna be understood I just wanna kill
Out of blandness I am your everyday thrill

Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God

I touched your lips but now I just paint
Surface reflection all I desired babe
I am melancholy, flower cutting through stone
I'm a crime everybody has at home

Papers hate me but they need my behaviour
The dignity amongst Hollywood trivia
Escape is so cheap of alcohol and whores
Mine's the sanity of exclusive gun laws

Art critics say porno's easily obscene
Late show retards Dice Clay is true poetry
They've never tried living underneath the water
That's real end of the century nausea

Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God

Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
I fucked God up the ass
I fucked God up the ass

Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman...

"I pledge allegiance to the flag / Of the United States Of America / And to the republic for which it stands / One nation under God / Indivisible with liberty And justice for all"

Category:

Music

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• manic
• street
• preachers
• B-side
• patrick
• bateman
• la
• tristesse
• durera
• richey
• edwards
• nicky
• wire
• james
• dean
• bradfield

[1234legend1234]

1. Partick Bateman

2. Montana Autumn 78

3. Democracy Coma

4. Are Mothers Saints

5. Us Against You

One of the greatest bands to make B-Sides. That James Dean Bradfield can play the guitar a bit carnt he. LOL. There should be Guitar Hero MSP not fucking Metallica.

[fromdespair2where]

agreed! i really like no exit on yesterday for reasons unknown

[MANICSGNR]

i agree, they are one of, if not the most underated and unknown band ever in the rock music's world

[TrashCan16]

its the best book i've ever read! patrick bateman ftw

[thefallen1982]

@TrashCan16 the book makes the movie look like the Teletubbies, its quite sick, and enjoyable at the same time.

[comfortcomes1984]

Love.

[DelphinusMAch1]

It seems more like the perspective of Ellis at the time he was writing American Psycho than Bateman's perspective.

[MrsSonchild196]

This song I do not like of manics it offends me now.

[catfacesilverdale]

@TheDicer1000 While your personal interpretation of lyrics is subjective, what a song was written about is an objective fact, known by the writer. Nicky Wire has confirmed that this is about the book 'American Psycho'. There is not a case for your misinterpretation.

[catfacesilverdale]

@philchelt *foo-woh-oad ;)

[mikeypirerer]

This is what happens when you have the intent to make the 'best Song Ever' - Which I believe was the Manics' intent at the time. What you end up with is this; A good, if slightly ham-fisted song with pretty good lyrics, though clunky in places. It's a good song. Though Comfort Comes wins hands-down as the best b-side of the GATS era

[YonBaron]

@TheDicer1000 Oh yes, because that's why they named the song "PATRICK BATEMAN" after the main character of American Psycho and reference the book throughout it. It's all secretly about The Dice Man, despite a lack of any kind of reference what-so-ever.