Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers In The Sky (Live from Cardiff Millennium Stadium,1999)

[@manorbier]

Such an beautiful song and amazing voice of James Dean Bradfield

[@HelenWaldron]

That still remains empy of the amazing man Richie James Edwards ofcourse. Hard work and optimism hope is hard to hang on to but it can also be the one thing that keeps you holding on! Night . Hele.XXX.X?1000%

[@DavidMuirhead-lx4wv]

Noel or Damon could never write something so good.

[@toast_eating_rat_queen]

I love this band with all my heart

[@mrmusicmanic]

This is how u do it, not like today's music that's in the so called charts. Such a great time back then.

[@TheIkaraCult]

Everything Must Go was a triumph because of Richeys songs, it became a massive cultural touchstone, which is what Richey wanted to happen all along.

[@disarmsox]

Brings back some memories of a very different time..

[@outsidersongs2682]

I think this song's lyrics is the closest they have ever got to any kind of an answer. Though of course it's about many things to the band I think: the sweetest may be the empathy for the mentally ill zoo animals that Richey was disturbed by. I remember that documentary. Small black flowers can also be coal heaps and therefore it could also be about how the working classes are suppressed and sustained. There is a lot in that song.

[@10miiia]

Really loves when JDB goes acoustic💙 Guitar hero

[@carlbates24]

I had tickets for this concert, but unfortunately I couldn't go as I was in the army at the time and I was on operations in kosovo

[@DeadpoolX9]

The music will never die

[@monkeyliver1986]

Underrated song

[@Gabriel-zk9gb]

You have your very own number They dress your cage in its nature Once you roared now you just grunt lame Pace around pathetic pound games Want to get out won't miss you sensaround To carry your own dead to swing your tire tricks Want to get out in here you're bred dead quick For the outside The small black flowers that grow in the sky They drag sticks along your walls Harvest your ovaries dead mothers crawl Here comes warden, Christ, temple, elders Environment not yours you see through it all Want to get out won't miss you sensaround Carry your own dead to swing your tire tricks Want to get out in here you're bred dead quick For the outside The small black flowers that grow in the sky Here chewing your tail is joy

[@caa2316]

come to brazil

[@kkow27]

what does james say about richey in the beginning?

[@lk8192]

''This song, is for, my coolest vote for the last, decade, Mr Richard Edwards, small black flowers in the sky''

[@mojopin70]

RIchey Edwards.

[@Rorshach1004]

Lesson from the song (which is always lost to the fans): Civilisation is captivity, the only escape being madness, or death. I do not agree at all. The message is anti-life, horrible and despairing. Agree with the song and all hope is gone. 'Here, chewing your tail is joy.' No, certainly not. Reject despair, embrace life, make civilisation better, for you, and the generations to come. Life doesn't have to be a zoo.

[@aina6398]

But this is about animals in a cage

[@aina6398]

@@clementine2001 bcs richey once saw animal in a cage in tv, he feel so sad, and then called nicky who happen to see the same chanel so they write this song. Look it up, this info already known for years in manics fandom

[@DeadpoolX9]

Captivity is a couple of degrees away from shelter is what I’ll take from it