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)
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:
Beauty finds refuge
in herself
Lovers wrapped inside
each others lies
Beauty is such a
terrible thing
She is suffering
Yet more than death
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
She is suffering
She sucks you deeper in
She is suffering
You exist within her shadow
Verse 2:
Beauty, she is scarred
into man's soul
A flower attracting
lust, vice and sin
A vine that can strangle
life from a tree
Carrion, surrounding,
picking on leaves
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
She is suffering
She sucks you deeper in
She is suffering
You exist within her shadow
Bridge: (Power chords) x4
Verse 3:
Beauty she poisons
unfaithful all
Stifled, her touch is
leprous and pale
The less she gives the more
you need her
No thoughts to forget when we were
children
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
She is suffering
She sucks you deeper in
She is suffering
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 and like this:
e|-5-| e|-5-|
b|-5-| b|-5-|
g|-6-| g|-5-|
d|-7-| d|-7-|
a|---| a|---|
e|---| e|---|