30 Year War
Manic Street Preachers

It's the longest running joke
In history
To kill the working classes
In the name of liberty

The lies of Hillsborough
The blood of Orgreave
All the evasion at the BBC

And 30 years of war
To darken all our class
Black propaganda, lies and mistrust
See it in our eyes, the fire dimming away
The old-boy network won the war again

The old-boy network won the war again
The old-boy network won the war again

So you hide all Lowry's paintings
For 30 years or more
'Cos he turned down a knighthood
And you must now settle the score

And the endless parade of old Etonian scum
Line the front benches so what is to be done?
All part of the same establishment
I ask you again what is to be done?

I ask you again what is to be done?
I ask you again what is to be done?

These verses at attention stand
Ready for the immortal command
The armies of my pages may never fight again
Happy for the order to meet eternal flame

Blame the poor
Praise the rich
Make the connections
Put them in print
Keep 'em boxed in
Keep 'em kettled in

Create a mistruth
So bewildering

Create a mistruth
So bewildering
Create a mistruth
So bewildering

So you hide all Lowry's paintings
For 30 years or more
'Cos he turned down a knighthood
And you must now settle the score
And the endless parade of old Etonian scum
Line the front benches so what is to be done?
All part of the same establishment
I ask you again what is to be done?

I ask you again what is to be done?
I ask you again what is to be done?

So you hide all Lowry's paintings
For 30 years or more
'Cos he turned down a knighthood
And you must now settle the score
And the endless parade of old Etonian scum
Line the front benches so what is to be done?
All part of the same establishment
I ask you again what is to be done?

I ask you again what is to be done?
I ask you again what is to be done?


  Purchase "30 Year War"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "30 Year War" Video   Play Spotify "30 Year War" Song   View Wikipedia "30 Year War" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Manic Street Preachers Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "30 Year War"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Manic Street Preachers

  (I Got) The Fever   (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline   1985   3 Ways To See Despair   30-Year War   4 Lonely Roads   4st 7lb   4st 7lb [Digitally Remastered]   4st. 7lbs.   A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun   A Design For Life   A Design for Life [First Rehearsal Extract]   A Secret Society   A Song For Departure   A Vision of Dead Desire   Ain't Goin' Down   All In Your Mind   Always / Never   Always/Never   Angel Child   Another Invented Disease   Anthem For A Lost Cause   Archives of Pain   Archives of Pain [Digitally Remastered]   Are Mothers Saints   Are Mothers Saints?   As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)   Askew Road   Australia   Australia [Acoustic Demo]   Automatik Teknicolour   Autumn Song   Autumnsong   Baby Elian   Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel   Be Natural   Been A Son   Behave Yourself Baby   Better Let You Know   Better Man   Between the Clock and the Bed   Between the Clock and the Bed (feat. Green Gartsid...   Black Dog on My Shoulder   Black Garden   Black Holes for the Young   Black Square   Blistered Mirrors   Bored Out of My Mind   Born a Girl   Born On A Different Cloud   Born to End   Bright Eyes   Builder of Routines   Buildings for Dead People   Caldey   Can't Take My Eyes Off You   Cardiff Afterlife   Carry Us All   Charles Windsor   Close My Eyes   Cloudburst   Colour My Life   Comfort Comes   Commemoration And Amnesia   Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll   Crucifix Kiss   D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?   Damn Dog   Dead Martyrs   Dead Passive   Dead Trees and Traffic Islands   Dead Yankee Drawl   Death of a Digital Ghost   Democracy Coma   Design For Life   Devils Haircut   Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel   Die In The Summertime   Die in the Summertime [Digitally Remastered]   Divine Youth   Divine Youth (feat. Georgia Ruth Williams)   Don't Be Evil   Donkeys   Door To The River   Drug Drug Druggy   Dying Breeds   Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier   Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier [Live]   Emily   Empty Motorcade   Empty Souls   Enola / Alone   Enola/Alone   Epicentre   Europa Geht Durch Mich   Europa Geht Durch Mich (Erol Alkan’s Mesmerise E...   Europa Geht Durch Mich (Erol Alkan’s Mesmerise Z...   Europa Geht Durch Mich (feat. Nina Hoss)   Everything Must Go   Everything Must Go [DVD]   Everything Must Go [Live]   Everything Will Be   Faceless Sense Of Void   Faster   Faster [Butt Naked][Multimedia Track]   Faster [Digitally Remastered]   Faster [DVD]   Faster [US Mix]   Fear Of Motion   Firefight   First Republic   Force Of Nature   Forever Delayed   Found That Soul   Fragments   Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children   From Despair To Where   Further Away   Further Away [Demo Version]   Further Away [DVD]   Futurology   Generation Terrorists   Glasnost   Gold Against the Soul   Groundhog Days   Hanging On   Happy Ending   Hazelton Avenue   Hazleton Avenue   Hibernation   His Last Painting   Hung In A Bad Place   I Don't Need Anyone   I Live To Fall Asleep   I Think I've Found It   I Think I’ve Found It   I Will Believe   I'm Just A Patsy   I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone   I'm Not Working   I'm Only Sleeping   Idler's Dream   If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next   Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldf...   IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfa   Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfa...   Imperial Bodybags   Indian Summer   Inertia Creeps   Interiors   Interiors (Song For Willem De Kooning)   Intravenous Agnostic   It's A Crime   It's All Gone   It's Not War Just The End Of Love   It's So Easy   It’s So Easy (live)   Jackie Collins Existential Question Time [*]   Judge Yourself   Judge Yr' Self   Just A Kid   Just Can't Be Happy   Just Getting Older   Kevin Carter   La Tristesse Durera   La Tritesse Durera   Last Christmas   Last Christmas (Live)   Last Exit on Yesterday   Let Robeson Sing   Let's Go to War   Leviathan   Life Becoming A Landslide   Litany   Little Baby Nothing   Little Baby Nothing (With Traci Lords)   Little Trolls   Locust Valley   Love Letter To The Future   Love Me And Leave Me   Love Torn Us Under   Love's Sweet Exile   Masking Tape   Mausoleum   Mausoleum [Digitally Remastered]   Mayakovsky   Me & Stephen Hawking   Merry Xmas Everyone   Methadone Pretty   Misguided Missile   Miss Europa Disco Dancer   Montana/Autumn/78   Montana/Autumn/78   Montana\/Autumn\/78   Motorcycle Emptiness   Motown Junk   Mr Carbohydrate   Mr. Carbohydrate   Must Be The Music   My Generation   My Guernica   My Little Empire   Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds   Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds   Never Want Again   New Art Riot   No One Knows What It's Like to Be Me   No Surface All Feeling   No Surface All Feeling [Demo Version]   No Surface All Feeling [DVD]   No Surface, All Feeling   No-one Knows What It's Like To Be Me   No-One Knows What It's Like To Be Me   Nobody Loved You   Nostalgic Pushead   Ocean Spray   Of Walking Abortion   Of Walking Abortion [Digitally Remastered]   Out Of Time   P. C. P.   P.C.P.   P.C.P. [Butt Naked][Multimedia Track]   P.C.P. [Digitally Remastered]   Patrick Bateman   Pedestal   Pennyroyal Tea   Picturesque   Prologue to History   R. P. McMurphy   R.p. Mcmurphy   Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head   Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (Burt Bacharach ...   Razorblade Beat   Ready for Drowning   Removables   Rendition   Repeat   Repeat (UK)   Revol   Revol [Digitally Remastered]   Rewind The Film   Rock and Roll Music   Roses in the Hospital   Royal Correspondent   RP McMurphy   Running Out of Fantasy   S. Y. M. M.   S.Y.M.M.   Scream To A Sigh (La Tristesse Durera)   Sculpture of Man   Second Great Depression   Send Away The Tigers   Sepia   Sex, Power, Love and Money   She is Suffering   She Is Suffering (Live at The O2)   Show Me the Wonder   Slash N' Burn   Sleepflower   Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky   So Dead   So Why So Sad   Socalist Serenade   Socialist Serenade   Solitude Sometimes Is   Some Kind Of Bliss   Sorrow 16   Soul Contamination   Spectators Of Suicide   Spectators Of Suicide (original Heavenly Version)   Star Lover   Starlover   Stay Beautiful   Stay With Me   Stop Crying Your Heart Out   Strip it Down   Suicide Alley   Suicide Is Painless   Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH)   Symphony of Tourette   Take the Skinheads Bowling   Teenage 20/20   Tennessee   Tennessee I Get Low   The Convalescent   The Descent   The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)   The Drowners   The Drowners (live)   The Everlasting   The Girl Who Wanted to Be God   The Hindu Times   The Intense Humming of Evil   The Intense Humming of Evil [Digitally Remastered]   The Last Time I Saw Paris   The Love Of Richard Nixon   The Masses Against the Classes   The Next Jet to Leave Moscow   The Second Great Depression   The Second Great Depression   The Soul-Mates   The Sound Of Detachment   The View from Stow Hill   The Year of Purification   Theme From MASH   There By The Grace Of God   This Girl's Got Nothing   This Is The Day   This is Yesterday   This Is Yesterday [Digitally Remastered]   This Sullen Welsh Heart   To Repel Ghosts   Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)   Tokyo Skyline   Too Cold Here   Train in Vain   Train in Vain (The Clash cover)   Train in Vain (The Clash cover)   Tsunami   Umbrella   Under My Wheels   Underdog   Underdogs   Unstoppable Salvation   Us Against You   Valley Boy   Velocity Girl   Voodoo Polaroids   Walk Me to the Bridge   Walk Me To The Bridge (Live From Ancienne Belgique...   Wattsville Blues   We Are All Bourgeois Now   We Her Majesty's Prisoners   We Were Never Told   What's My Name   William's Last Words   Winterlovers   Working Class Hero   Wrote For Luck   Yes   Yes [Digitally Remastered]   You Love Us   You Stole The Sun From My Heart   You're Tender and You're Tired   Your Love Alone Is Not Enough   Yourself

Related Songs

  Attero Dominatus - Sabaton  Humdrum And Humble - Tears For Fears  Scotland United - Grave Digger  Mainstream - Kansas  The Best Keeps Getting Better - Alan Jackson  Testosterone - Rita Ora  LifeWar - Demon Hunter  Brandenburg Gate - Anti-Flag  Brandenburg Gate - Anti Flag  So This Is Christmas - Robbie Williams  American Guns - Transplants  American Guns - Transplants  The Much Needed Second Cold War - Marina Siertis  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Used  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Train  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Never Shout Never  Happy Christmas (war Is Over) - Alarm, The  AYN LOVETH - J Roland Kelly  Merry Christmas (war Is Over) - John Lennon  Happy Christmas - Roch Voisine  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Pooh  Happy Xmas War Is Over - X Factor (UK)  Priestly Winter - gLee  Priestly Winter - Somebody You Used To Know  Thirty-Year War - Ego Likeness  War (LA Coliseum, 9/30/85) - Springsteen Bruce  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Christmas Songs  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Sarah Mclachlan  Happy Xmas - Yoko Ono  Happy Xmas War Is Over - John Lennon  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - The Used  Happy Xmas - Christina Perri  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Christina Perri  Happy Xmas - John Lennon  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Jessica Simpson  Happy Christmas - Canadian Brass  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Glee Cast  Happy Xmas - Jessica Simpson  Happy Christmas - Jessica Simpson  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - REO Speedwagon  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Acceptance  Fuck My Bitch - Lil B  30-30 - Deryl Dodd  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Andy Williams  Drivin’ All Night - Jake Owen  Drivin' All Night - Jake Owen  Drivin' All Night - Michael Ray  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Jessica Simpson  Go To War - Fredo Santana  Year 2000 - Die Toten Hosen  Year 2000 [Alles Wird Gut] - Die Toten Hosen  Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - Jann Arden  Happy Christmas (war Is Over) - Diana Ross  Happy Christmas - Sarah Brightman  This Was the Year - Nina Gordon  Prologue - Phantom Of The Opera  Do You Wanna Start a War - Fozzy  Year By Year - Backyard Babies  Happy Christmas - Diana Ross  Darksome Sea - Peter Doherty  Darksome Sea - Pete Doherty  The Battlefield's Still Red - Aus Rotten  1969 - The Mission UK  1969 [Live] - The Mission UK  1969 [Live] - The Mission UK  1969 [Live][*] - The Mission UK  Wenn Träume Sterben - Puhdys  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Celine Dion  The Rocking Chair - The Beautiful South  The Rocking Chair - Beautiful South  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Whiffin  Medley: Happy Xmas (War Is over)/Give Peace a Chan...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Neil Diamond  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Andy Williams  Amigos del Mundo (Happy Christmas)...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - The Alarm  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Cranes  The Outlaw Josey Wales (The War Is Over) [Clint Ea...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - The Gipsy Vegabonds  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - California Raisins  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Yoko Ono  The War Is Over [From the Outlaw Josey Wales]...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Teddy Pendergrass  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [Rough Mix][#]...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Trini Lopez  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Holt  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Drew's Famous  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Radwan Hoteit  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Canadian Brass  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Rebecca St. James  Happy Christmas - Oscar Lopez  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - 81 Squad  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Steve McDonald  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Altenburgh  Happy Xmas (War Is Over)...  Então É Natal (Happy Xmas (War Is Over))...  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Plácido Domingo  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Luciano Pavarotti  Happy Xmas (War Is Over)...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Thrice  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Morgan Fisher  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Diana Ross  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Fir Na Keol  Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - December People  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Keres Katia  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - William Coulter  Happy Christmas (War Is Over)...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Carly Simon  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Warren Hill  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Sense Field  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Mark Doyle  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - All-Star Choir  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Canadian Brass  Happy Christmas, (War Is Over) - Cord Carpenter  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Twelve Girls Band  Happy Christmas - Mindi Abair  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Rick Cowling  Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - John Lennon  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Stars of Studio 99  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - The Bachelors  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Rosie Flores  Happy Christmas (War Is Over)/We Sing Hallelujah...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Lorie Line  Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - Sasha  Happy Xmas War Is Over - Gregorian  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Fray  Happy Christmas (War is Over) - Maroon 5  Happy Christmas War Is Over - Thrice  Então É Natal (Happy Xmas (War Is Over))...  Amigos del Mundo - Ricardo Castillón  Happy Christmas (War Is Over)...  Llegó Navidad (Happy Xmas) (War Is Over)...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Charice  Happy Christmas (the War is Over) - Maroon 5  Happy Xmas - Glee Cast  Happy Xmas (War Is Over)...  Imagine/Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Laurie Z  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Academia OT II  Happy Xmas (War Is Over)...  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Hit Crew  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Gary Hoey  Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - John Holt  Happy Xmas - Gary Hoey  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - The Moody Blues  Happy Xmas (War Is Over)...  Happy Christmas - David Young  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Chris Cozens  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Vienna Boys' Choir  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Harlem Community Choir  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - The Fray  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Leann Rimes  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Maroon 5  Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - Thrice  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Delta Goodrem  A Storm Blew In - Brandon Rhyder  Football\u00b4s Coming Home - 3 Lions \u00b498  This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart...  Mit dem Mofa nach England - Tomte  Athens - Spirit Of The Patriot  1,000 Year Internal War - Crowbar  The Nine Year War - Cruachan  Success Story - Holiday Parade  30/30-150 - Stone Sour  Carabina .30-.30 - Los Lobos  30\/30-150 - Stone Sour  Carabina 30\/30 - Frida  Happy X-mas (war Is Over) - Celine Dion  They Want Me Back In - ICE-T  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Delta Goodrem  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [*] - John Lennon  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Plastic Ono Band  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon  Happy X-mas (War Is Over) - Robbie Williams  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Antony And The Johnsons  Happy X-mas - John Lennon  Happy Christmas (war Is Over) - John Lennon  So This Is Christmas - John Lennon  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Winger  Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Daniel Padilla  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Darlene Love  Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - The Paper Chase  Tittenmaus - Die Ärzte  30 - PJ Harvey  30 - Nine Inch Nails  30 - Danny Brown  30 - 69 Eyes  30 - P.J. Harvey  30 - Oblivion Dust  $30 - Big K.R.I.T.  30$ - Big KRIT  The Morons Are Winning - The Awkward Stage  Over 30 - KRS-One & Marley Marl  Sie Hieß Mary Ann - Achim Reichel  War Goes On - Node  Peace Don't Cost A Thing - Adolescents  30 Piece - Doe B  Heart Of The Darklands - Rhapsody Of Fire  Ghettoblaster - Impaled Nazarene  War In Peace - Mudhoney  Thirtysomething - I, Ludicrous