Manic Street Preachers - Virginia State Epileptic Colony

Virginia State Epileptic Colony by the Manic Street Preachers from their new album "Journal For Plague Lovers"

Here Are The Lyrics:

They sit around tables rendered dumb
Coloured sticks of chalk are passed around
Today the doctors allow the illusion of choice
Tomorrow the necks split, there is no voice

Piggy V-S-E-C
Cleaning - cooking - flower-arranging
Dissolves a kind of liberation

Draw a perfect circle, sleep foetus-like
Six chalk colours the very meaning of life
They wake to strobes and half circled light
confusion lifts with potassium percolate

Piggy V-S-E-C
Cleaning - cooking - flower-arranging
Dissolves a kind of liberation

Piggy piggy piggy V-S-E-C
Cleaning - cooking - flower-arranging
Dissolves a kind of liberation

Piggy V-S-E-C
Cleaning - cooking - flower-arranging
Dissolves a kind of liberation

Piggy piggy piggy V-S-E-C
Cleaning - cooking - flower-arranging
Dissolves a kind of liberation

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Virginia
• State
• Epileptic
• Colony
• Manic
• Street
• Preachers
• Journal
• For
• Plague
• Lovers

[unusualsuspect71]

This highlights a part of US history Im sure America can be proud of. Enforced sterilisation. The Nazis did the too! At least the Third Reich didnt dress their brutality up in lies and prevarocation. OH...and just coz Bill Clinton appologised for MK Ultra makes all the torture and inhumanity acceptable! The United States is a fascist Republic. They dont use slave labor like the Nazis you say? Thanks to their neo imperialism the slaves live in Indonesia and China, and you dont have to see them!

[Tikka79]

The thing I love most about the Manics, as this song shows, is that you learn so much from their lyrics. I for one, did not no much about the whole concept of enforced sterilsation to humans. I had a look on this topic and learnt something new.

Think of lyrics in Revol, 4st 7lb, Archives of Pain etc. These are well constructed and mean something.

Thank you Manics for making me a more informed person. And, oh yes, your music sounds awesome too :)

[kaisermuto]

Search YOUTUBE!! " South Korea and Japan in WPTC 2010 (World cup of Sweets) "

............Is that fair?

[theepilepsyguy]

An epileptic colony is a residential facility designed to accommodate the treatment needs of epileptics. Such sites were historically used to isolate epileptics and the mentally ill from the rest of society, reflecting a widespread fear of epilepsy and mental illness. Modern facilities usually do not use the term “epileptic colony,” and they may focus on inpatient and outpatient treatment for a variety of neurological conditions, not just epilepsy

[DarylJCheetham]

@ILostMyBonnie sorry but if you dont care about serious issues addressed by the Manics, then why bother listening to them?

[eojoeoj]

The first time I heard this song I was under whelmed, after some time i've slowly fallen in love with it. It has a pre-GT sound to it, a naive, unabashed youthful quality about it. This song is exactlt WHY they should have made this album.

[corky100]

Hitler, Rockerfeller, Kelloggs..... all picked at the carrion of society for their own ends.

[ILostMyBonnie]

@unusualsuspect71 You must be a hoot at parties.

[AtticusStount]

@Tikka79 I have audio from American radio news broadcasts from the 1970s. It was still an option should, say, a developmentally impaired person (retarded) be convicted of sexual assault.

[Duenderelojero]

Love the piano!!