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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

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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,

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

No quarter given is the way it's got to be
The staging areas set this ain't no DMZ
Flanking maneuver done, you're overrun
A Pyrrhic victory's not

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

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

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

in Scotch
Unable to move
A Pyrrhic victory
But one you can loose
The rock rolls down
No matter what you choose

Why do we slaughter the innocent?

We'll burn the sky for your grand Pyrrhic victory 
Reliable 
Chrome veins run thick with grease 
Ride eternal through a stark choking fantasy 

Waste not

that it's not going to go my way

This is a no-win situation
But if it isn't too contradictory
Be satisfied in your frustration
Be content with a Pyrrhic

want to fight again
Can't you see?
Even if we win it's a Pyrrhic victory
No
We could lose all our men
Just because of faith
That we were meant to be
That

I should take a breath for the descent
A Pyrrhic victory with good intent
Recall the memories that have never been
A deep dive into the shallow end

looks like Edison. It's crazy
Richest man on earth: Pyrrhic victory
Van Gogh didn't die in 'The Starry Night'
Dr. Gachet could not save him. He died
Poor,

buttons right
Monopoly wannabe
Educated people
A yearning as your minds elope

Make them work, slave, keep them happy
Here is your pyrrhic victory

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