Manic Street Preachers

[Let Robeson sing]
[Ocean spray]
[So why so sad]
[Found that soul]


Let Robeson sing
Where are you now
Broken up or still around
The CIA says you're a guilty man
Will we see the likes of you again

Can anyone make a difference any more
Can anyone write a protest song
Pinky lefty revolutionary
Burned at the stake for

A voice so pure
A vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Oo a ooa ooa oo
Oo a ooa ooa oo

Went to Cuba to meet Castro
Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice
MK Ultra turned you paranoid

No passport 'til 1958
McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost still buried today
Beneath the lie of the USA

A voice so pure
A vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Oo a ooa ooa oo
Oo a ooa ooa oo

Aaaa ahhhh
Aaaa ahhhh

Aaaa ahhhh
Aaaa ahhhh

A voice so pure
A vision so clear
I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you
Oo a ooa ooa oo
Oo a ooa ooa oo

Sing it loud
Sing it proud
I will be heard
I will be found
Sing it loud
Sing it proud
I will be heard
I will be found
Ocean spray
It's easy to see, it's easy to see
To see only white, where colour should be
It's easy to feel, it's easy to feel
But it's not good enough even though it's real

Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

It's easy to breathe, it's easy to breathe
To breathe only air where life should be
It's easy to laugh, it's easy to cry
To cry so, so hard that it can't be denied

Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray

Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Oh please stay awake
And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
So why so sad
Things get clear when I feel free
But what happens next comes easily
What gentle hands you brought to me
When your eyes feel weak and tired it truly hits

When I missed you you were my life
When I missed you you were my life
So at ease in the midnight sky
So at ease in the midnight sky
My insides will look like wire
My insides will look like wire
Paralysed as if to prove my thoughts

So why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
You've given all the love
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad

My smile as real as a hyena's
My smile as real as a hyena's
Burns an express-way to my skull
Burns an express-way to my skull
Well I will stick myself together again
My spirit, soul and body know I can't pretend

So why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
You've given all the love
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad

So why so sad
You live and you love
So why so sad
You've given all the love
Searching for the dead sea scrolls
So why, so why so sad
So why, so why so sad
So why, so why so sad
Found that soul
Show me a wonder
You can't be sure of
I exist in a place
A self-made vacuum
But still stranded here
With all the scum
So pleased, so lost
So beautiful

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that home
Oh I found that soul

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that now
Oh I found that soul

Not a subject
Not a subject of mine
Sick and pale
But strangely alive
Broken blood-vessels
Line my cheeks
Reflections look bad
But somehow real

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that home
Oh I found that soul

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that now
But I found that soul

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that home
Oh I found that soul

But I found that soul
Yeah I found that now
But I found that soul

Show me a wonder
Show me a wonder
Show me a wonder
Show me a wonder