Manic Street Preachers- Williams Last Words

This song is from Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio of Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 18 May 2009, through record label Columbia, and features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who vanished on 1 February 1995, and was presumed deceased in 2008. It is the only Manic Street Preachers album in which the lyrics for every song were written solely by Edwards. The album cover is an original painting by Jenny Saville, who also contributed artwork for The Holy Bible.

The top four UK supermarkets stocked the CD in a plain slipcase, as the cover was deemed "inappropriate". Bradfield regards the decision as "utterly bizarre", and has commented: "You can have lovely shiny buttocks and guns everywhere in the supermarket on covers of magazines and CDs, but you show a piece of art and people just freak out ".

 "William's Last Words"is the final track and  has been compared to a suicide note, and although Nicky Wire rejects this suggestion, Bradfield observes, "you can draw some pretty obvious conclusions from the lyrics"