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I hate purity,
Hate goodness,
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere,
I want everyone corrupt
I am an architect,
They call me a butcher,
I am a pioneer,
They call me primitive,
I am purity,
They call me perverted,
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave,
I am idiot drug hive,
The virgin, the tattered and the torn,
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards,
Self disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please,
A morality obedient only to be cleansed repented,
I am stronger than Mensa, miller and mailer,
I spat out Plath and Pinter,
I am all the things that you regret,
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell,
The first time you see yourself naked you cry,
Soft skin now acne,
Foul breath so broken,
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining,
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing,
Sleep cannot hide thoughts splitting through my mind,
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake,
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down,
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else.
I am stronger than Mensa, miller and mailer,
I spat out Plath and Pinter,
I am all the things that you regret,
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
Hate goodness,
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere,
I want everyone corrupt
I am an architect,
They call me a butcher,
I am a pioneer,
They call me primitive,
I am purity,
They call me perverted,
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave,
I am idiot drug hive,
The virgin, the tattered and the torn,
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards,
Self disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please,
A morality obedient only to be cleansed repented,
I am stronger than Mensa, miller and mailer,
I spat out Plath and Pinter,
I am all the things that you regret,
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell,
The first time you see yourself naked you cry,
Soft skin now acne,
Foul breath so broken,
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining,
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing,
Sleep cannot hide thoughts splitting through my mind,
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake,
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down,
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else.
I am stronger than Mensa, miller and mailer,
I spat out Plath and Pinter,
I am all the things that you regret,
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything,
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
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Richey said something along the lines of how Faster was a study of how everyday morality is simply a form of obedience to society's ruling class.
When you listen to it however, it's hard to see it as anything other than a clue as to Richey's state of mind at that point. The 'architect...butcher' lines could be a validation of his self-lacerations. Rampant narcissism battle self-contempt and physical imperfection, and his declaration of superiority over lauded would-be-geniuses and artists, suggest a psyche battling to exert its strength over inner doubt and uncertainty.
The title itself is also a double meaning- not only a reference to the gaining speed of modern life, but also to wilfully abstaining from food to exert bodily control, a 'faster' like Richey at time was, linking this song possibly to 4st 7lbs.
I used to think this song was about the proposed 'super-race' the Nazi's were aiming towards... But that's crap.
Love the Manics naturally, but my only criticism of Richey is that he was probably a bit too reflective and too close to his influences.... But then he was still a pretty young writer when he 'went'.
I understand the protagonist to be a Nazi or some other fundamentalist despot. ''I am this and they call me that''. You are just too inferior to understand my plans! is what he is saying. the idea is: don't be fooled by those purporting to have the answers to everything. they usually have the answers to nothing and would rather burn the whole world than admit it.
i think the actual lyric, at least the essence of it, is pretty clear to those who knows at least a bit about the backstory (ie; Richey's).
Hate goodness
I don\'t want virtue to exist anywhere
I want everyone corrupt
this is a quote from 1984.
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I''ve been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else
Think about how vain he was when GT first came out. He loved himself, they ALL believed the band was the best band in the world, and he didn't really give a shit. The whole song isn't about self-mutilation like people like to think; it's about just being different and doing shit that people don't approve of, and overall? Hating yourself, which is something Richey said in an interview.