Manic Street Preachers – Faster Chords on Piano & Ukulele

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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I am an architect,
they call me a butcher
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I am a pioneer,
they call me primitive
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I am purity, they call me perverted
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Holding you but I only
miss these things when they leave
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I am idiot drug hive, the virgin,
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 the tattered and the torn
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Life is for the cold made
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warm and they are just lizards
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Self-disgust is self-obsession
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 honey and I do as I please
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A morality obedient only to
 the cleansed repented

[Chorus]
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I am stronger than Mensa,
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 Miller and Mailer
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I spat out Plath and Pinter
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I am all the things that you regret
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A truth that washes that
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 learnt how to spell

[Verse 2]
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The first time you see
yourself naked you cry
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Soft skin now acne,
foul breath, so broken
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He loves me truly this
mute solitude I'm draining
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I know I believe in nothing
but it is my nothing

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Sleep can't hide the thoughts
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 splitting through my mind
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Shadows aren't clean, false
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mirrors, too many people awake
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If you stand up like a nail then

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 you will be knocked down
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I've been too honest with myself
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 I should have lied like
everybody else

[Chorus 2]
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I am stronger than Mensa,
            G
 Miller and Mailer
                     B      E
I spat out Plath and Pinter
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I am all the things that you regret
             G
A truth that washes that
               B
 learnt how to spell
          E
Learnt to spell

[Solo]
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[Coda]
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So damn easy to cave in
 man kills everything
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So damn easy to cave in
 man kills everything
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So damn easy to cave in
 man kills everything
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So damn easy to cave in
man kills everything