A Design for Life

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A Design for Life by Manic Street Preachers

About A Design for Life

"A Design for Life" was released by Manic Street Preachers in 1996 and was the first single release from the Everything Must Go album of May that same year. The title was inspired by the Joy Division EP record "An Ideal for Living". The opening line 'Libraries gave us power' was inspired by the legend above the entrance to a public library in Newport, near the band's home town of Blackwood in Wales: 'Knowledge is Power', whilst the phrase 'then work .

A Design for Life Lyrics

[00:05.63] Libraries gave us power
[00:11.18] Then work came and made us free
[00:16.44] What price now
[00:21.89] For a shallow piece of dignity?
[00:29.88]
[00:32.53] I wish I had a bottle
[00:38.14] Right here in my dirty face
[00:43.78] To wear the scars
[00:49.15] To show from where I came
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[01:00.63] We don't talk about love
[01:06.03] We only want to get drunk
[01:11.68] And we are not allowed to spend
[01:16.05] As we are told that this is the end
[01:21.75] A design for life
[01:27.17] A design for life
[01:32.52] A design for life
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[01:46.11] I wish I had a bottle
[01:51.44] Right here in my pretty face
[01:57.06] To wear the scars
[02:02.32] To show from where I came
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[02:14.02] We don't talk about love
[02:19.63] We only want to get drunk
[02:25.22] And we are not allowed to spend
[02:29.47] As we are told that this is the end
[02:35.13] A design for life
[02:40.53] A design for life
[02:45.93] A design for life
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[03:21.95] We don't talk about love
[03:27.49] We only want to get drunk
[03:33.24] And we are not allowed to spend
[03:37.49] As we are told that this is the end
[03:43.07] A design for life
[03:48.38] A design for life
[03:53.78] A design for life
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