[Lyric] My Drowning World (Manic Street Preachers)

[Verse 1]
I want him to be a failure
Ah, to live in the ruins of my own life
To surf on the waves of nothingness
My secret language [?] me
The cold and [?] on my lungs
My mother a long-lost distant ghost

[Hook]
Oh the glory of my drowning world
All the marriages, diaries and the [?]
The ice in the veins
The feeling so sweet
It's the rich world that I intend to repeat (?)
To repeat

[Verse 2]
My father's anger still raging
All around my million words
None of which I wrote, all of which I learned
Hymns of my youth still call me
More than a hammer, more than a [?]
[?]
Beer
[Hook]
Oh the folly of my drowning world
All the marriagеs, diamonds and the [?]
The ice in thе veins
The feeling so sweet, yeah
It's the rich world that I intend to repeat
To repeat

[Outro]
And in my self-destruction
Never worked on [?]'s thing
The only principle I ever obeyed