Wire and Edwards ' love of poetry is also evident in their lyrics . Stuart Maconie of '' Select '' speculated that the album 's lyrics were not primarily written for usage in song format : " You got the impression that often they have n't even been tried out in the mouth " . Instead , revolutionary slogans , and rhyme-free verse conveying multiple messages combine to create an album " drenched in Richey and Nicky 's cut-n-paste lyrical agitation " , with vocalist Bradfield " fitting sentences along the lines of ' Nagasaki royal alienation consumer deathmask strychnine holocaust hate ' into the restrictive confines of a melodic rock chorus . " Edwards assumed responsibility for the cover ; among ideas he had were using Andres Serrano 's '' Piss Christ '' , a Jesus figure inside a container of urine ; the Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe photographs ; a sandpaper sleeve that would scratch the album itself as well as anything else that it was shelved by ( similar to '' Mémoires '' by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord ) ; as well as several other famous religious paintings ; but these suggestions were either declined or found too expensive
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