Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb lyrics
Days since I last pissed
Cheeks sunken and despaired
So gorgeous sunk to six stone
Lose my only remaining home
See my third rib appear
A week later all my flesh disappear
Stretching tautcling-film on bone
I'm getting better
Karen says I've reached my target weight
Kate and emma and kristin know it's fake
Problem is diet's not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil it's purity
Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
Naked and lovely and 5st. 2
May I bud and never flower
My vision's getting blurred
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks
And I can feel my breasts are sinking
Mother trys to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole ryvitta
That's the way you're built my father said
But I can changemy cocoon shedding
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil it's purity
Kate and kristin and kit kat
All things I like looking at
Too weak to fusstoo weak to die
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life
I choosemy choiceI starve to frenzy
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bendstockinged I am twiggy
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me
Self-worth scattersself-esteem's a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
Yeh 4st. 7an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel.