Manic Street Preachers – Faster (Guitar)

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A#m7b5 variation: 5 | | | | O | ----------- 6 | | O O | | ----------- 7 | | | | | | ----------- 8 | | | | | | A6/9: X O O 1 | | | | | | ----------- 2 | | | | O | ----------- 3 | | | | | | ----------- 4 | | O O | | Eadd4: (In this version he doesn't play either E string too often!) O O O O 1 | | | O | | ----------- 2 | | O | | | ----------- 3 | | | | | | ----------- 4 | | | | | | [Verse 1]
Eadd4
 I am an architect, they call me a butcher

Eadd4
 I am a pioneer, they call me primitive

Eadd4
 I am purity, they call me perverted

Eadd4
 Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave
[Pre-chorus]
D                                      A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4       A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4
 I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn

D                                      A#m7b5  A6/9    Eadd4        A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4
 Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards

D                                      A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4       A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4
 Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please

D                     E
 A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented
[Chorus]
A                                     G   F#m     
 I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer

   E        D5    Db5 Bm     E
 I spat out Plath and Pinter

A
 I am all the things that you regret

             G  F#m E          D5  Db5  Bm     E
A truth that washes that learnt how to  spell
[Verse 2]
Eadd11
 The first time you see yourself naked you cry

Eadd11
 Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken

Eadd11
 He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining

Eadd11
 I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing
[Pre-chorus]
D                                        A#m7b5     A6/9    Eadd4     A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4
 Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind

D                                             A#m7b5 A6/9  Eadd4      A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4
 Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake

D                                             A#m7b5 A6/9  Eadd4      A#m7b5   A6/9    Eadd4
 If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down

D                                               E
 I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else
[Chorus]
A                                     G   F#m     
 I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer

   E        D5    Db5 Bm     E
 I spat out Plath and Pinter

A
 I am all the things that you regret

             G  F#m E          D5  Db5  Bm     E
A truth that washes that learnt how to  spell
[Coda]
Eadd11
 So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything

Eadd11
 So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything