Manic Street Preachers es una banda auténtica, siempre frontal en sus cuestionamientos ante la idea de la verdad y la identidad de un sistema que no temen en desafiar. Las letras de sus canciones resultan a veces crudas o filosóficas, dependiendo contextos, pero siempre nos sacuden con visiones un tanto más oscuras de la sociedad. Les encanta invitarnos a cuestionar nuestras propias percepciones y creencias de todo lo que nos rodea, y en esta nota vamos a estudiar fugazmente ese enfoque que les ha hecho registrar letras realmente poderosas:
1.- Twenty one years of living and nothing means anything to me.
Motown Junk/ Single/ 1991
2.- I am an architect, they call me a butcher. I am a pioneer, they call me primitive. I am purity, they call me perverted.
Faster/ The Holy Bible LP/ 1994
3.- South South Yorkshire, mass murderer. How can you sleep at night, sleep at night?
S.Y.M.M./ This Is My Truth Tell me Yours LP/ 1998
4.- All we want from you are the kicks you’ve given us.
Motorcycle Emptiness/ Generation Terrorists LP/ 1992
5.- There are no sunsets, just silence. You could see that she was true and faithless, but see through the future and forget all the lies.
The Girl Who Wanted To Be God/ Everything Must Go LP/ 1996
6.- To feel forgiveness, you gotta forgive. It’s lost on me, I believe in revenge.
(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love/ Postcards From A Young Man LP/ 2010
7.- Old songs leave long shadows. Makes you shut down all your emotions.
Walk Me To The Bridge/ Futurology LP/ 2014