Manic Street Preachers – The Intense Humming Of Evil (Guitar)

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As recorded by the Manic Street Preachers (From the 1994 Album THE HOLY BIBLE) [Sampled Intro]
Bm                                      Em
  "The court has come. The court of the Nations.

                       Bm
And into the courtroom will come the martyrs of Majdanek, and Oswiecim.

                                  G                                   Em
From the ditch of Kerch, the dead will rise. They will arise from the graves,

                                                               Bm
they will arise from flames bringing with them the acrid smoke and the deathly

                      G
odour of scorched and martyred Europe. And the children, they too will come,

                                                       Em
stern and merciless. The butchers had no pity on them; now the victims will judge the butchers.

                      Bm                                                 Em           N.C.
Today the tear of the child is the judge. The grief of the mother is the prosecutor."
Em Fm Em Fm Em Fm Em Fm Em F Em F Em F Em F [Verse 1]
Em      F Em           F
You were  what you were

Em       F Em            F
Clean cut, and unbecoming

Em       F Em           F
Recreation for the masses

    Em             F     Em        F
You always mistook fists for flowers
[Bridge]
F#m        Gm   G#         Am
Welcome welcome soldier smiling

A#            B   Cm           C#
Funeral march for agony's last edge
[Chorus]
D
6 Million screaming souls

D
Maybe misery - maybe nothing at all

D
Lives that wouldn't have changed a thing

                                       Dm 
Never counted - never mattered - never be
[Chorus] Em F Em F [Verse 2]
Em              F
Arbeit macht frei

Em                   F
Transports of invalids

Em                          F
Hartheim Castle breathes us in

   Em                     F
In block 5 we worship malaria

Em         F  Em         F
Lagerstrasse, poplar trees

Em                    F
Beauty lost, dignity gone

Em                              F
Rascher surveys us butcher bacteria
[Bridge]
F#m        G    G#         Am
Welcome welcome soldier smiling

A#        B          Cm                 C#
Soon infected, nails broken, hunger’s a word
[Chorus]
D
6 Million screaming souls

D
Maybe misery - maybe nothing at all

D
Lives that wouldn't have changed a thing

                                       Dm 
Never counted - never mattered - never be
[Bridge]
Dm          F  Dm            F
Drink it away, every tear is false

Gm                Dm  F 
Churchill no different

           Dm                       F
Wished the workers bled to a machine
[Outro] Am C Am C Am C Am C Am C Am C Am C Am C F#m G G# A A# B C C# F# G G# A A# B C C#m F#m