These are Faster chords by Manic Street Preachers on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.
[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
D
I am idiot drug hive, the virgin,
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the tattered and the torn
D
Life is for the cold made
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warm and they are just lizards
D
Self-disgust is self-obsession
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honey and I do as I please
D E
A morality obedient only to
the cleansed repented
[Chorus]
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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 E
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
D
Shadows aren't clean, false
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mirrors, too many people awake
D
If you stand up like a nail then
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you will be knocked down
D
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
A
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