Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart - Manic Street Preachers

Next Thursday you’re invited to watch

Rising Tide

's live coverage of a gala tribute in salute to

Ronald Reagan

.

Host

Haley Barbour

joins special guest

Lady Margaret Thatcher

in celebrating the former president’s 83rd birthday.

Tickets are 1000 Dollars a plate

but you can see the event free on GOP TV

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm

Grenada, Haiti, Poland, Nicaragua

Who shall we choose for our morality

I’m thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy

Big Mac, smack, Phoenix, R., please smile y’all

Cuba, Mexico can’t cauterise our discipline

Your idols speak so much of the abyss

Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface

Cool, groovy, morning, fine

Tipper Gore was a friend of mine

I love a free country

The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy

(Conservatives say)

«There ain’t no black in the Union Jack»

(Democrats say) «There ain’t enough white in the Stars and Stripes»

Compton, Harlem, a pimp fucked a priest

The white man has just found a new moral saviour

Vital stats, how white was their skin

Unimportant, just another inner-city drive-by thing

Morning, fine, serve your first coffee of the day

Real privilege, it will take your problems away

Number one, the best, no excuse from me

I am here to serve the Moral Majority

Cool, groovy, morning, fine

Tipper Gore was a friend of mine

I love a free country

The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy

Zapruder the first to masturbate

The world’s first taste of crucified grace

(And we say) there’s not enough black in the Union Jack

(And we say) there’s too much white in the Stars and Stripes

Fuck the Brady bill!

Fuck the Brady bill!

«If God made man,» they say

«Sam Colt made him equal»