• Track: Autumnsong
• Artist: Manic Street Preachers
• Album: Send Away the Tigers
• Year: 2007

Lyrics:

Wear your eyes as dark as night
Paint your face with what you like
Wear your love like it is made of hate
Born to destroy and born to create

Now baby, what’ve you done to your hair?
Is it just the same time of year
When you think that you don’t really care?
Now baby, what have you done?
Done to your hair, done to your hair, done to your hair, done to your hair, hair!

So when you hear this autumn song
Clear your heads and get ready to run
So when you hear this autumn song
Remember the best times are yet to come

Wear your eyes as dark as night
Paint your face with what you like
Wear your love like it is made of hate
Born to destroy: born to create, born to create

Now baby, what’ve you done to your hair?
Is it just the same time of year
When you think that you don’t really care?
Now baby, what have you done to your hair?

Wear your eyes as dark as night
Paint your face with what you like
Wear your love like it is made of hate
Born to destroy: born to create, born to create, born to create, born to create

So when you hear this autumn song
Clear your heads and get ready to run
So when you hear this autumn song
Remember the best times are yet to come

And wear your hair in bunches
And your jacket loose
So when you hear this autumn song
Clear your heads and get ready to run

So when you hear this autumn song
Clear your heads and get ready to run
So when you hear this autumn song
Remember the best times are yet to come

Get It:

Send Away the Tigers is available here. Note this edition is an expanded 2 CD and 1 DVD collection:

Suicide is Painless (Theme for M*A*S*H*) is available on Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits:

Tonight on Dances with Bass Radio, we’re sampling an excellent track from Welsh rockers, Manic Street Preachers. MSP have been cranking out solid indie rock since forming in 1986, though their mainstream success has been limited mostly to the UK.

Unfortunately, many people know them more for the disappearance (and assumed death) of founding member Richey Edwards in 1995. Richey disappeared without a trace and it’s presumed that he committed suicide. His car was found near the Severn-Wye Bridge in South Gloucestershire, England, which has led many to believe that he jumped from the bridge.

Interestingly, guitarist James Dean Bradfield has said that the opening riff is a nod to Slash from Guns n’ Roses.

Give this one some volume, my babies!

Video:

Two videos were released for this song. The first was produced by the band’s label, Columbia, but is no longer available online. The second was produced by the band themselves and uses the same models from the album cover.

And now for something completely different. This is the Manic Street Preachers performing a cover of Suicide is Painless. If that title doesn’t sound familiar to you, that’s because you know it as the theme from M*A*S*H. The song was originally written by Johnny Mandel (music) and Mike Altman, and obviously, the version used for the television show was an instrumental and not rocked up like this one. Enjoy!

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