Everything Must Go
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Everything Must Go Lyrics
Shed some skin for the fear within
Is starting to hurt me with everything
Freed from the memory
Escape from our history, history
[Chorus]
And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
[Verse 2]
I look to the future it makes me cry
But it seems too real to tell you why
Freed from the century
With nothing but memory, memory
[Chorus]
And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go
And if you need an explanation
Then everything must go
[Bridge]
Freed us eventually
Just need to be happy, happy
About
The second single and title track from Everything Must Go is one of the band’s most well-known and commercially successful singles, making it to #5 in the UK Singles Chart, making it the band’s second of five consecutive top 10 singles.
The lyrics deal with the band’s change of direction after the disappearance of Richey James Edwards in 1995, pleading towards their fans to accept their new, commercial continuation of the band despite losing one of their key songwriters. Like the previous single, “A Design for Life”, the track makes extensive use of cinematic and epic strings. The decision was also made not to apply any compression to the drums, giving them a free and messy sound.
A remix of this song, made by The Chemical Brothers, features in the soundtrack of the 1998 PlayStation video game Gran Turismo.
Q&A
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- 1.Motown Junk
- 4.You Love Us
- 13.Faster
- 14.Revol
- 15.She Is Suffering
- 17.Everything Must Go
- 18.Kevin Carter
- 19.Australia
- 21.The Everlasting
- 23.Tsunami
- 25.So Why So Sad
- 26.Found That Soul
- 27.Ocean Spray
- 28.Let Robeson Sing
- 31.Empty Souls
- 33.Autumnsong
- 34.Indian Summer
- 38.This Is the Day
