Song: She is Suffering
Band: Manic Street Preachers
Tuning: Standard
I worked this out using this video of James Dean Bradfield playing an acoustic
version of the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOpjoksIELk
I'm sure it's spot on.
Intro/Verses: (In the video I used to write this, he hits the A and Am at the end
as full chords sometimes)
Em Em/D# A Am
e|------------------------------------------------------|
b|-------8------------8------------2------------1-------|
g|-----9---9--------9---9--------2---2--------2---2-----|
d|---9-------9----9-------9----2-------2----2-------2---|
a|-7-----------6------------0------------0------------0-|
e|------------------------------------------------------|
Verse 1:
Em Em/D#
Beauty finds refuge
A Am
in herself
Em Em/D#
Lovers wrapped inside
A Am
each others lies
Em Em/D#
Beauty is such a
A Am
terrible thing
Em Em/D#
She is suffering
A Am
Yet more than death
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
G B Em
She is suffering
G B A5
She sucks you deeper in
G B Em
She is suffering
G B A5
You exist within her shadow
Verse 2:
Em Em/D#
Beauty, she is scarred
A Am
into man's soul
Em Em/D#
A flower attracting
A Am
lust, vice and sin
Em Em/D#
A vine that can strangle
A Am
life from a tree
Em Em/D#
Carrion, surrounding,
A Am
picking on leaves
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
G B Em
She is suffering
G B A5
She sucks you deeper in
G B Em
She is suffering
G B A5
You exist within her shadow
Bridge: (Power chords) x4
D# C D A
Verse 3:
Em Em/D#
Beauty she poisons
A Am
unfaithful all
Em Em/D#
Stifled, her touch is
A Am
leprous and pale
Em Em/D#
The less she gives the more
A Am
you need her
Em Em/D#
No thoughts to forget when we were
A Am
children
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
G B Em
She is suffering
G B A5
She sucks you deeper in
G B Em
She is suffering
G B A5
Nature's luke-warm pleasure
That's it. Took much longer to write out than expected.
In the third verse, he just strums the chords, rather than picking them. I think
he plays the A and Am like this:
A Am
e|-5-| e|-5-|
b|-5-| b|-5-|
g|-6-| g|-5-|
d|-7-| d|-7-|
a|---| a|---|
e|---| e|---|