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



Lyrics submitted by ecureuil

Track duration: 03:56

"Faster" as written by Tyler James, Amy Jane Studt, Anders Jonas Kallmark

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    General Comment:Nicky admitted that even he didn't know entirely what this one was about, although he said "It's more a voyeuristic insight in to how our generation has become obliterated with sensations. We could deal with things but we prefer to blank them out so that virtually every atrocity doesn't have that much impact any more. I don't know if that's a bad thing, I don't even know if we're not on some kind of path to a 'super-being' where all emotions are lost and everyone finally gets on happily because of that."

    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.
    Flag manic4manicson March 05, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:What the hell? Why are the authors of this song noted on this page as 'Tyler James, Amy Jane Studt, Anders Jonas Kallmark'? Who are these people?! This song was written by Richey, Nicky, James and Sean!
    Flag manic4manicson November 04, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Some days you feel superior, bright and full of life other days your flat out trying to think of one good thing about the human race. "It's so easy to cave in" when you face up to the tragedy of life, but then life can be so magnificent it becomes blinding.
    Flag lateleighon June 05, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Great lyric really. I know it's been discussed to bits, but I think the key to this song is Edwards' fragility as a human being was at odds with his mind. He felt super-human when he read the words of Mailer, Mensa and Plath etc... He found authors/thinkers he could identify with and put himself into that category of biting commentator debased by a society driven by vulgar distractions.

    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'.
    Flag lateleighon December 15, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think the song is about Ritchie Edwards, even though Nicky Wire wrote half of it. I remember reading that the songs title alluded to the way life "speeded up" in the 1990s with everything being designed to be consumed in bite-sized portions and activities like sitting down for a few hours to read a good book being marginalise. The songs lyrics, however, sound like someone (doubtless Edwards) trying to explain how they feel living in a modern world they don't quite feel a part of.
    Flag Zagreboon October 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This song is largely about Nazism and the holocaust- a theme which runs through the record.

    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.
    Flag Stephen2010on September 29, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:For those debating the title FASTER, you may want to know this is a FASTER version of Life Becoming A Landside B-Side Comfort Comes, essentially the same song with a different lyric but played FASTER/// Geddit? Funny really for a song - and indeed album - squashed to breaking point with earnestly macabre symbology, reference, metaphor and meaning.

    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).
    Flag bernieisoddon September 04, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I hate purity
    Hate goodness
    I don\'t want virtue to exist anywhere
    I want everyone corrupt

    this is a quote from 1984.
    Flag darylcon August 13, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:I don't see why everyone finds this song so confusing to understand. This is the one out of the album that I think, along with 4st 7lb gets closest into how Richey was truly feeling.

    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.
    Flag xpwoppaon June 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Does anyone know where the dialogue at the start of this song comes from? I know its taken from 1984 but does anyone know which adaptation?
    Flag redrevolutionon June 13, 2009   Link

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