Manifesto lyrics

Artist  : Waterboys 
Song : Manifesto
 
Blues are falling like showers of rain, but I
don’t feel like crying
Death himself is abroad this day, but I don’t
feel like dying

I learnt how to sustain myself
I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

The enemy has the biggest tanks, and he sure
knows how to use them
Our best, and only, chance, is to thoroughly
confuse him

I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

Her tongue was like a scythe and all her bones
were haunted
A scapegoat for her life was all she ever wanted

I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

Sir bedivere slept in a field, his armour strewn
around him
Curled foetus-like beneath his shield, still
weeping when we found him

I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

I teetered on the edge of doom, degenerate and
broken
She washed the blood out of my wounds, and spoke
the great unspoken

I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

His monstrous ego whipped and driven raged
beneath his clothing
The complement he paid was given not with grace
but loathing

I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

Deliverance is at the gate with arms and gold in
store
He apologises for being late, but I don’t need
him anymore

I learnt how to sustain myself
I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

Scoured and stripped of all pretence, shorn of
all illusion
I offer nothing in my defence, you can draw your
own conclusions

I learnt how to sustain myself in storms

(trans. sean miller - sean_miller@mindless.com)