변해도 이렇게 변하면 완벽이라 부를만하다. 신서 팝과 모던 록의 적절한 연애가 빚어낸 웨딩마치는 축복 속에 울려 퍼지며, 신랄한 메시지와 순수한 멜로디는 이들의 진심어린 하객이다. 여전히 초창기 사운드 운운하는 이들은 이 사운드가 마냥 만족스럽지 않겠지만, 그래도 분명한 것은 이 앨범이 후기 매닉스의 걸작이라 불릴만한 훌륭함을 담고 있다는 점이다.
In 1985, I placed a bet and lied, losing all that I had, at least with all my heart intact.
In 1985, Orwell was proved right, Torville and Dean's bolero, redundant as a sad welsh chapel. In 1985, in 1985.
So God is dead, like Nietzsche said, superstition is all we have left. Circle the wagons, we're under attack, we've realised there's no going back, we've realised there's no going back.
In 1985, the Civil War failed why?, kept hidden like scars of birth, nature unable to soften the words.
In 1985, my words they came alive, friends were made for life, Morrissey and Marr gave me choice. In 1985, in 1985.
So God is dead, like Nietzsche said, only 16 years of age, he said. See all the tears, for the walking dead, we've realised there's no going back, we've realised there's no going back.
In 1985, I placed a bet and lied, losing all that I had.
The world on your shoulders The love of your mother The fear of the future The best years behind you The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too Love build around the sandy beaches Love rains down like Vietnam's leeches Richard the third in the White House Cowering behind divided curtains The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you Ah, the love of richard nixon, death without assasination The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you People forget China and your war on cancer Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the nation. I have never been a quitter
And all the masks I carry on my face For you, for another Some calm and then some grace But once within a long and broken night A face like mine, bereft of dreams and white
This is a song, this is a song a song for a departure This is a song This is a song, this is a song a song to take you homewards This is a song
Maybe this strangeness only ever was To hide ourselves from some kind of happiness But always the moment it just seems to stay Tearing it off like so many calendar days
This is a song, this is a song a song for a departure This is a song This is a song, this is a song a song to break your heart to This is a song
This is a song, this is a song a song for broken lovers This is a song This is a song, this is a song a song to take you homewards This is a song This is a song, this is a song a song to break your heart to This is a song
I live to fall asleep It's when I stop the hate I never want to dream It infiltrates beauty
I live to fall asleep Regenerate and sin Skin so tense gives in I've lived enough to kill
When did you become another distant friend Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end When did you become another distant friend Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end Oh, when did you decide that sleep could save your life How could you become another boy struck dumb How could you become another boy struck dumb with love
I live to fall asleep I live to fall asleep
I live to fall asleep it helps me through the day Drink has never dulled a pain so deep does run
I live to fall asleep serene alone happy Holding on to screams waiting for the time
When did you become another distant friend Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end When did you become another distant friend Everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end Oh, when did you decide that sleep could save your life How could you become another boy struck dumb How could you become another boy struck dumb with love
I live to fall asleep I live to fall asleep
So lazy, lazy, lazy Chuck down all the pills Needing to remember how and why to live Oh, when did you decide that sleep could save your life How could you become another boy struck dumb How could you become another boy struck dumb with love
Emily, Emily your gift to me Emily, a modern sense of beauty Emily, as precious as your memory A simple word called liberty
The relics, the ghosts, all down so many roads The relics, the ghosts, all down so many roads
Emily, so pity poor Emily You've been replaced by charity
It's what you forget, what you forget that kills you It's what you remember, what you remember that makes you We used to have answers, now we have only questions But now have no direction
The relics, the ghosts, all down so many roads The relics, the ghosts, all down so many roads
Emily, so pity poor Emily You've been replaced by charity
It's what you forget, what you forget that kills you It's what you remember, what you remember that makes you We used to have answers, now we have only questions But now have no direction
Always, never on my mind Always, always out of time Always, always letting someone down Always, always wanting more Always, always stand-alone Always, always getting something wrong
Longing for, it's been a long time longing for To carry the sky away
Always, never said and done Always, always change my mind Always, always trying to succeed Always, never facing you Always, never being true Always, always gonna be this way
Longing for, it's been a long time longing for To carry the sky away
Always, never Always, never Always, never Always, never Always
Solitude sometimes is The place that I would like to live Solitude sometimes is When nothing really seems to fit
If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too, but not even then Solitude sometimes is
Solitude sometimes is Life that no longer exists Solitude sometimes is When there's nothing left to give
If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too, but not even then Solitude sometimes is
Drop your bombs on all I see Leave this world alone for me The thing I need to hide behind It reigns beneath my holy skies
If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too, but not even then Solitude sometimes is Solitude sometimes is...
Strung out eyes as cold as worship Two minutes silence in a century of screams Tiny massive hands, emphatic lonely soul Skin against skin and blood against blood
This is the place where peace exists This is the place where my mind resists The fragments fail to hold me The fragments fail to hold me...
When there's time I'll read your words There's no point disguising You're the one who's hurt Laid bloody and bare to see The effects will fail to desert me
This is the place where peace exists This is the place where my mind resists The fragments fail to hold me The fragments fail to hold me...
This is the place where my mind resists The fragments fail to hold me The fragments fail to hold me..
If the love between us has faded away Left in the rain, scratching at the stains The paralysed future The past sideways scrawl I must give up on this It makes no sense at all Makes no sense at all
In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sense the breaking of our lives In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife
And yet I kept my silence Your memory is still mine No I will not share them Acquaintance through denial
For I witnessed splendour And evil that no-one saw And I felt kindness And vanity for sure And vanity for sure
In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sensed the breaking of our lives In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sensed the making of our lives In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff
Ⅰ. Everything Must Go? 누가 뭐래도 그들의 지난 앨범 『Know Your Enemy』(2001/Virgin) 는 정말 많이 실망스러웠다. 그것이 매닉스에 대한 애증 때문이든 혹은 전작인『This Is My truth Tell Me Yours』(1998/Virgin) 로 인해 더욱 늘어난 기대치 때문이든 말이다. "Everything Must Go!"라고 천명했던 그들에게 걸맞지 않는 퇴보였고 그로 인한 출혈을 메우기 위해 『Forever Delayed』(2002/SONY)이란 리믹스 트랙까지 부록으로 끼워 넣은 빠방한 베스트 앨범을 낸 것은 아니냐는 의혹까지 불러일으키기 충분했던 것이다. 그리고 시기적절하게 리치의 '행방불명 기한 만료'로 인해 사망 처리되는 것을 반대하는 리치의 어머니와 ...