Nicky Wire
Nicholas Allen Jones (born 20 January 1969), known as Nicky Wire, is the lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
Biography
Early life
Born Nicholas Allen Jones in Blackwood,Wales, Wire is the younger brother of poet and author Patrick Jones. He attended Oakdale Comprehensive School with James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Richey Edwards. Wire excelled at football and was captain of the Welsh national schoolboys' team aged 14. Although he was offered a trial at both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal football clubs, back and knee problems brought his football career to an end. Wire took A-levels in politics and law. He later attended Portsmouth Polytechnic, and after several months transferred to the University of Wales Swansea, starting his course a year after Edwards. He graduated with a Lower Second-Class Honours degree in Politics, which has led him to comment that he may have pursued a career in the diplomatic service or the Foreign Office.
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Everything Fades
by: Nicky WireEverything fades
Nothing stays
Tied to a place
We don't belong
Everything fades
It may be delayed
Frozen not dead
But grey and decayed
Need a stranger to show me the truth
Need somebody to help me through
Everything fades
It's no bad thing
Trusting aside
To what do we cling
Need a stranger to show me the truth
Need somebody to help me through
In our decline we've ebbed and we've flowed
Nothing gained and nothing to show
Everything fades
O glorious day
However we try
You can't hold back time
Failure can
Be good for your soul
It tests your desires
And leaves you alone
Need someone something somehow
Serves to remember you as you are
Need to shelter you from the storm
Need a place that I can call home
Like a prayer I can hear you calling
Like a prayer I can hear you calling
Like a prayer I can hear you calling out for me
Like a prayer I can hear you calling
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