First Republic

Manic Street Preachers · Singles And B-Sides [1991]

You are so alone in

Kensington Palace

We should be content in

These damned terraces



Thank you for this view from

Our council estates

I hope you have really

Guillotined your own head



I crown myself, myself a king

And declare a first republic

We wanna play, yes, we wanna play

In burnt out palace ruins



You once gave us war

Racism and slavery

Cut out all our tongues

And fucked our industry



Now you've revealed something

You're human after all this

But let's clap our hands

And fuck our dear princess