Manic Street Preachers – 4St 7Lb (Guitar)

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This is my best effort at this, the bass riff is played during the verses, but it sounds okay on the guitar, Words are correct I think, chords sound okay to me but may not be exactly right. Please rate/comment Bass riff
G---------3-3---------3-3-------------2-2--------2-2-----
A-----1-1---------1-1------1-0----1-1--------1-1-----1-0-
E-3-3--------3-3---------3----3-3--------3-3--------3----

                                                                                     C
I eat to much to die and not enough to stay alive, I'm sitting in the middle, waiting
VERSE 1: NC Days since I last pissed, cheeks sunken and despaired So gorgeous sunk to six stone, lose my only remaining home See my third rib appear, a week later all my flesh disappears Stretching taut, cling film on bone, I'm getting better
Am                                Dm
Karen says I've reached my target weight

                                    G                                        C
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake, problem is diet's not a big enough word

              B                      Em
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
CHORUS:
D#5      D5   C5                  D5       D#5         D5        C5 D5
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not leave a footprint

D#5      D5   C5                  D5       D#5          D5       C5 D5
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not soil its purity
VERSE 2: NC Stomach collapsed at five, lift up my skirt, my sex is gone Naked and lovely, I'm five stone two, may I bud and never flower My vision's getting blurred but I can see my ribs and I feel fine My hands are trembling stalks and I can feel my breasts are sinking
Am                                 Dm
Mother trys to choke me with roast beef

                              G                                           C
And sits savouring her sole ryvita, that's the way you're built my father said

          B                 Em
But I can change, my cocoon shedding
CHORUS:
D#       D    Cm                  D        D#          D         Cm D
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not leave a footprint

D#       D    Cm                  D        D#           D        Cm D
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not soil its purity
BREAK: Db C F G ENDING:
C                             F                 G
Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat, all things I like looking at

C                                  F                  G          Am
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die, choice is skeletal in everybody's life

C                                       F                      G
I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy, hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires

C                                       F              G               Am
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy and I don't mind the horror that surrounds me

C                                          F                       G
Self worth scatters, self esteem's a bore, I long since moved to a higher plateau

C                                            F                G            Am
This discipline's so rare so please applaud, just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

C                                            F                         G
Yeah four stone seven, an epilogue of youth, such beautiful dignity in self-abuse

C                                    F               G             Am
I've finally come to understand life through staring blankly at my navel