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Leviathan is a song by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was recorded for the charity album Help!: A Day In The Life for War Child UK in 2005. The song is also available as a download on iTunes. It takes it's title from the 1651 book about political power by Thomas Hobbes. The song is about the varying grounds for the legitimacy of political power and the references Patty Hearst, the Baader-Meinhof Group, the film The Medusa Touch and the PMLA (the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola).