THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

901-Manic Street Preachers-The Everlasting.

1998-Number 11 single.

Best Bit-At 3.45.If all songs were as easy to decipher as boy meets girl, boy and girl get married, boy and girl live happily ever after, then we wouldn’t have to engage our brains.

No one can accuse the ‘Manics,’ or at least the songs lyrics writer, Nicky Wire, of not challenging us.There are many ways of trying to interoperate what Wire is telling us, so I can only offer my interpretation.

It is partly about how life can grind you down, as you grow from a carefree youth, into the dissolution, of becoming an adult.At the start of the journey,’Our smiles were genuine,’ but as you grow older, you become exhausted.

The Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh Rock Band formed in Blackwood, Wales, in 1986 by James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore, and Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards became the fourth full time member of the band, shortly after the release of their first single,’ Suicide Alley,’ in 1988.

The disappearance of Edwards in 1995 is one of Pop Music’s greatest mysteries, he has never been found, and it is assumed that he took his own life. His family had the option of declaring him legally dead from 2002 onward, but chose to wait, leaving his status as a missing person, until November 23rd, 2008,when he became officially,’presumed dead.’

‘In the beginning when we were winning, when our smiles were genuine.’