A B-Side from the double A-Side “Faster/P.C.P.” single taken from The Holy Bible released in 1994.
I remember owning this way back in 1994.
Here’s the front cover for that single:
Lyrics:
War censored, no blood on TV
Cheap entertainment sold like a new deodorant
World War Three, a Sega dreamland
I’d take a whore to the funeral
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Jesus descends, Dachau his father
Flanders is a corpse under flowers
There’s more art in Burger King
Than the British museum today
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Wills and Harry, dressed in drag
Standing over the sodomised body of their mother
Would make a beautiful poster in Athena
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
With Richey in the band their lyrics are incendiary and far from the conservative image the band has in 2021. Akin to the other singles “Faster/P.C.P.” which feature on The Holy Bible Sculpture of man is a vibrant punky frenetic song clocking in at 1:55 with some provocative lyrics.
“There’s more art in Burger King
Than the British museum today.”
“Wills and Harry, dressed in drag
Standing over the sodomised body of their mother
Would make a beautiful poster in Athena.”
Wills and Harry are of course the sons of the late Princess Diana which this track precedes her death in 1997.
Athena being the company who brought us posters that were on every bedroom wall such as the tennis player revealing her buttock.
Another nod to consumerism is mentioned in the line “War censored, no blood on TV
Cheap entertainment sold like a new deodorant.”
It’s a difficult song to pin down by the vague lyrics but I sense an anger at the consumerism of art, war, entertainment with brand names being used such as Sega, Athena and the British museum to convey how strong branding is in a world full of atrocity.
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