Quest for Ancient Colour (Demo) - Manic Street Preachers

Come close, lay next to me Come close, lay next to me I need to tell you something important So stay close, remain next to me I need to feel important Because it's your eyes I don't believe And my heart, you will, you will mislead Do you know the consequence that comes with having such confidence? Holding all the weight in my life Then you turn and walk away from me So what is this now, you ask of me? What's makes your pain such an urgency? Now I want out, so plain to see Once again my dear, a brand new tragedy Holding all the weight in my life Then you turn and you walk away from me Holding all the weight in my life Then you turn and you walk away from me Bleeding all the strength from my life Then you turn and you run away from me You're bleeding all the strength from my life Then you turn and you run away from me

You need not to climb mountain tops You need not to cross the sea You need not to find a cure For everything that makes you weak You need not to reach for the stars When life becomes so dark And when the wind does blow against the grain You must follow your heart You must follow your heart All your friends have come and gone And the sun no longer shines And the happiness for which you long Is washed away like an oceans tide When all the hard times outweigh the good And all your words are misunderstood When the day seems lost from the start You must follow your heart You must follow your heart If you feel you've paid the price And your wounds should cease to heal And everything you love in life Spins like a winding wheel If you should wake to find your abandoned And the road you traveled leads to a dead end When death creaps in to play it's part You must follow your heart. You must follow your heart.

There's a funeral procession on the highway Traffic screeches to a halt There's people searching for a better way To live their lives, oh Johnny lived a good life, you'll hear them say As tears of sadness soak the ground The reaper crept in, took his breath away In the middle of the night, oh We celebrate the lives of the dead It's like a man's best party, only happens when he dies We gather 'round to pay our respects While their souls are still searching for the light Searching for the light So please don't come to me on my dying day Just let me go in peace With all the things that I forgot to say Racing through my mind, oh And don't you bury me six feet under ground Just burn my body in a box And let my ashes blow with the wind Out into the night sky We celebrate the lives of the dead It's like a man's best party, only happens when he dies We gather 'round to pay our respects While their souls are still searching for the light Searching for the light Searching for the light, oh Searching for the light

From one world to another, There's so much to discover Feel so small inside, But courage has no size My heart knows where to go, And I will follow MoreIt's the little things that make a difference It's the quest for love that brings us life It's a dream of what could be That makes it all worthwhile Like you being by my side A love that only grows with time Sometimes I lose my way, Unsure, I grow afraid There's no wrong I can't make right With you standing by It takes a friend like you To remind me of what I knew It's the little things that make a difference It's the quest for love that brings us life It's a dream of what could be That makes it all worthwhile Like you being by my side A love that only grows with time I'll be strong, I'll be brave, From your world and back again We will go until the end, oh It's the little things that make a difference It's the quest for love that brings us life It's a dream of what could be That makes it all worthwhile Like you being by my side A love that only grows with time

Say what you want Break my heart a thousand times But it's still right here So you left me with lies Let the banners unfold Let them fall to the floor We once had each other Now we're not so sure Are we living in the past? Where there's nothing left to feel Why'd you say that you love me? Tell me what I want to hear A cold war for the mind My distant colours still bleeding A broken promise for the soul Never loving never healing I no longer know my left from my right Between your hopes and fears And my joys to decide So say what you want Break my heart a thousand times But it's still right here Will we ever survive? Are we living in the past? Where there's nothing left to feel Why'd you say that you love me? Tell me what I want to hear A cold war for the mind My distant colours still bleeding A broken promise for the soul Never loving never healing Never ever healing My distant colours still bleeding Still bleeding Are we living in the past? Where there's nothing left to feel Why'd you say that you love me? Tell me what I want to hear A cold war for the mind My distant colours still bleeding A broken promise for the soul Never loving never healing

We live in Orwellian times It feels impossible to pick a side In sentences that dance and hide The truth becomes a broken lie Every way you look, every way you turn The future fights the past, the books begin to burn I'll walk you through the apocalypse Where me and you could coexist Every way you look, every way you turn The future fights the past, the books begin to burn Words wage war, meanings being missed I'll walk you through the apocalypse We live in orwellian times A deepening sense of fear and crime Up on the playing fields in exclusive clubs And the people machines still making fools out of us Every way you look, every way you turn The future fights the past, the books begin to burn I'll walk you through the apocalypse Where me and you could coexist Every way you look, every way you turn The future fights the past, the books begin to burn Words wage war, meanings being missed I'll walk you through the apocalypse Every way you look, every way you turn The future fights the past, the books begin to burn I'll walk you through the apocalypse Where me and you could coexist Every way you look, every way you turn The future fights the past, the books begin to burn Words wage war, meanings being missed I'll walk you through the apocalypse

If God persists, persists in saying yes I guess we'll have, we'll have to test ourselves Maybe the Summer will come and clear our minds And find the impulse set at the sunshine I guess we'll have to test Until there's nothing left We said the truth was fixed It's lost without a trace This crime is eternity When time lost its certainty The Indian Summer Maybe this time We'll kiss and we'll not shake hands Indian Summer, still hurt and broken And leave all this material belief Remember the reasons The reasons that made us be I guess we'll have to test What's darker than ourselves? We said the truth was fixed It's lost without a trace This crime is eternity When time lost its certainty The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer I guess we'll have to test Until there's nothing left We said the truth was fixed It's lost without a trace This crime is eternity When time lost its certainty The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer