在激昂的”Faster”之後，”the Holy Bible”突然轉為憂鬱的軟調中版歌曲，Manic Street Preachers褪去了大量的龐克基調，沒有大量的譬喻以及引用，也沒有憤怒的控訴。”This Is Yesterday”和”Die In the Summertime “反而是充滿了絕望蒼白的詩意，模稜兩可、充滿暗喻的句子，充分展現了這張專輯激情過後留下的倦意，以及厭世的灰飛灰燼，有時候專輯裡最能引發同理心，也最能沉澱省思的，可能就是這兩首歌。
This Is Yesterday
Do not listen to a word I say
不要聽信我說的話語
Just listen to what I can keep silent
請聽我能保持什麼樣的沉默
The only way to gain approval
獲得認同的唯一方法
Is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me
就是透過利用那些貶低我的大事
And I stare at the sky
我凝視著天空
And it leaves me blind
它讓我盲目
I close my eyes
我緊閉我的雙眼
And this is yesterday
而這就是昨天
Someone somewhere soon will take care of you
某人在某地很快就會照顧你
I repent, I'm sorry, everything is falling apart
我後悔、我難過，每一件事都在崩壞
Houses as ruins and gardens as weeds
房屋被毀壞就像花園變成雜草
Why do anything when you can forget everything
當你能忘掉每一件事實，為什麼嘗試著任何事
And I stare at the sky
我凝視著天空
And it leaves me blind
它讓我盲目
I close my eyes
我緊閉我的雙眼
And this is yesterday
而這就是昨天
And I stare at the sky
我凝視著天空
And it leaves me blind
它讓我盲目
I close my eyes
我緊閉我的雙眼
And this is yesterday
而這就是昨天
Die In the Summertime
Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals
用生鏽的鐵釘抓抓我的腿，哀傷地它癒合
Colour my hair but the dye grows out
染著我的頭髮，但染料逐漸消逝
I can't seem to stay a fixed ideal
我好像不能保持固定的理想
Childhood pictures redeem, clean and so serene
找回童年的圖片，清晰而如此安祥
See myself without ruining lines
洞悉自我但不用毀壞線條
Whole days throwing sticks into streams
整天把棍子丟到小溪裡
I have crawled so far sideways
我迄今都往旁邊爬著
I recognise dim traces of creation
我辨認出創造的黯淡軌跡
I wanna die, die in the summertime, I wanna die
我想要死，死在夏天，我想死
The hole in my life even stains the soil
在我生命中的洞甚至被泥土弄髒
My heart shrinks to barely a pulse
我的心臟收縮到幾乎不會跳動
A tiny animal curled into a quarter circle
一個瘦小的動物捲曲到一個四分之一圓裡
If you really care wash the feet of a beggar
如果你真的關心，那請幫乞丐洗腳
I have crawled so far sideways
我迄今都往旁邊爬著
I recognise dim traces of creation
我辨認出創造的黯淡軌跡
I wanna die, die in the summertime, I wanna die
我想要死，死在夏天，我想死
I have crawled so far sideways
我迄今都往旁邊爬著
I recognise dim traces of creation
我辨認出創造的黯淡軌跡
I wanna die, die in the summertime, I wanna die
我想要死，死在夏天，我想死
