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Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong

Autumnsong is a song by Manic Street Preachers and the second single taken from the album Send Away the Tigers. It was released on 23 July 2007.

As with all Send Away the Tigers-related promotional material, the cover image is taken from the photography book Monika Monster Future First Woman On Mars by Valerie Philips.

Two videos were filmed for the song. The version used for promotion on television, commissioned by the record label, features teenagers in various everyday group situations with lyrics from the song occasionally flashing on the screen.

The alternative version, commissioned by the band themselves after being disappointed with the label's version and directed by Valerie Philips, features the girls featured on the Send Away the Tigers cover art miming to the song.

The song "1404" recalls a 'lost chapter' in Welsh history, when Owain Glyndŵr was crowned Prince of Wales in that year having successfully revolted against the English. He was, however, the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales.

The lyrics:

Wear your eyes as dark as night

Paint your face with what you like

Wear your love like it is made of hate

Born to destroy and born to create

Now baby, what've you done to your hair?

Is it just the same time of year

When you think that you don't really care?

Now baby, what have you done?

Done to your hair, done to your hair, done to your hair, done to your hair, hair!

So when you hear this autumn song

Clear your heads and get ready to run

So when you hear this autumn song

Remember the best times are yet to come

Now baby, what've you done to your hair?

Is it just the same time of year

When you think that you don't really care?

Now baby, what have you done to your hair?

Wear your eyes as dark as night

Paint your face with what you like

Wear your love like it is made of hate

Born to destroy: born to create, born to create, born to create, born to create

So when you hear this autumn song

Clear your heads and get ready to run

So when you hear this autumn song

Remember the best times are yet to come

And wear your hair in bunches

And your jacket loose

So when you hear this autumn song

Clear your heads and get ready to run

So when you hear this autumn song

Clear your heads and get ready to run

So when you hear this autumn song

Remember the best times are yet to come