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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks

2003

more Pyrrhic victory
Another dodgy deal

Suffer from a little depression baby
Gotta tell the world what you feel
Nothing wrong with self-expression

Mediterranean breeze in these Pyrrhic victories
I met her at the end of my last week

My uncle and I've been staying in the Balkans
He watercolors in the dawn, I

gone wanna hear what i have to say just listen to me
Won it all but lost too much along the way, pyrrhic Victory, pyrrhic victory, pyrrhic victory

Pyrrhic victories fill chapters of history
A festering disease that will never be cured
Send the young
Send the poor
Faceless bodies
To the slaughter
Will

P.C.P.

Manic Street Preachers

Sharks Patrol These Waters

1995

Shakespeare, bring fresh air, king cigarette Snuffed out by her midgets, by her midgets
P.C.P. - a P.C. police victory
P.C.P. - a P.C. pyrrhic victory
When I

drenched 

Pyrrhic victory 
Cannot see through this fog of war 
Pyrrhic victory
Achievement negated by this heavy toll

A pyrrhic victory, calling over the din
The lonely moan, of the next battlefield
You shot that mouth at all you ever knew
Howitzer phones, I'll

the Pyrrhic Boys
Ablaze but we give off no heat or light
Ain't go no wants, ain't got no needs
We don't stay the night

We're the Pyrrhic Boys
We only care for

to come nearer
Then you hold on for all you've got

Tragic trope
Trot out the vainest hope
Let them diffuse
To win is to lose

A pyrrhic twist
A puppet

of the game
The spoils bring some joy but they're suffering pain
Victories are pyrrhic and utterly vain
Lying tongues and the haughtiest looks
Gotta beg pardon

60)
Pyrrhic victory (Negative 60)
What a pity (Negative 60)

So cold, you feel you're burning
I'm told you think you're learning
Hope you slip,

strikes first, it doesn't work in reverse
Every bullet bears shrapnel
Every blast has a radius
Victories are pyrrhic
Is the sacrifice saving us?
Calculated

brutalises
Waves of winter land

A song of the past
Of wonders now lost
A childhood derailed 
Dead bruise flowers spray
A memory born of Pyrrhic victory

you're life

I've got your back
I've got your back
Keep concentrating on the frontal attck
Weathered fire - pyrrhic victory
Who knew that Judas was

The Need Machine

Foetus

Flow

of gold
A Pyrrhic victory for your mental health

Gotta feed the need machine
Gotta feed the need machine
Gotta feed the need, the need machine
Gotta

with the sweet 
Counted up the casualties 
The survivors left the scene 
Took home the Pyrrhic victory 

Out of the deep south he came  
From obscurity

The cold war
We're fighting in the cold war

A fool's attrition to win a pyrrhic victory
Extort contrition to change the course of history
A Russian doll

life remembered as that most Pyrrhic
Of moral victories
Someday you'll see I'm a half-decent guy
Chivalrous self-deprecation aside
I want nothing more

At the end of the long night
At the end of the pyrrhic fight
You lost your left and then you lost your right
At the end of the long day
When she has

Pyrrhic win
Seeking answers in the darkest
Corners of your mind as if
Anything could ever surface
From there but more self-loathing
But still
You chose

Pray tell, why didn’t I sacrifice?
My ego and appetites
I should have fixed my head
Betrayed your trust instead


A Pyrrhic victory streak I won
Cuz

Wounded to run away
Pyrrhic victory
Condemned to history
And all this time, she relates
To this fair game
Like a wave, it breaks
Incensed the stalking prey

theirs
We weren't prepared
To fade away
An end of times
Rises forth today

Pyrrhic pyre of my past
I stare into it
Hoping at last
To find the meaning of it

To sparks that surely rise when iron sharpen iron
I must confess my love for flame
I trade my oxygen for pyrrhic victory
A crown of ash my prize. You