• Song:

    She Is Suffering

  • Artist:

    Manic Street Preachers

  • Album:

    Original Album Classics

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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 (022000@1)        Em/D#        A (x02220@1)          Ame|------------------------------------------------------| (x02210@1)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 (022000@1)    Em/D#
Beauty finds refuge
A (x02220@1)    Amin (x02210@1)herself
Em    Em/D#
Lovers wrapped inside
A (x02220@1)          Ameach (x02210@1)others lies
Em   Em/D#
Beauty is such a 
A (x02220@1)          Amterrible (x02210@1)thing
Em (022000@1)   Em/D#
She is suffering
A (x02220@1)                AmYet (x02210@1)more than death

Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)She is   suffering
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)              A5She (x022xx@1)sucks you deeper in
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)She is   suffering
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)              A5You (x022xx@1)exist within her shadow

Verse 2:
Em (022000@1)    Em/D#
Beauty, she is scarred
A (x02220@1)         Aminto (x02210@1)man's soul
Em (022000@1)     Em/D#
A flower attracting
A (x02220@1)               Amlust, (x02210@1)vice and sin
Em (022000@1)   Em/D#      
A vine that can strangle
A (x02220@1)             Amlife (x02210@1)from a tree
Em (022000@1)     Em/D#
Carrion, surrounding,
A (x02220@1)              Ampicking (x02210@1)on leaves

Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)She is   suffering
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)              A5She (x022xx@1)sucks you deeper in
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)She is   suffering
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)              A5You (x022xx@1)exist within her shadow

Bridge: (Power chords) x4
D# (x43121@3)C (x32010@1)D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1)Verse 3:
Em (022000@1)   Em/D#
Beauty she poisons
A (x02220@1)          Amunfaithful (x02210@1)all
Em (022000@1)    Em/D#
Stifled, her touch is
A (x02220@1)             Amleprous (x02210@1)and pale
Em (022000@1)     Em/D#
The less she gives the more
A (x02220@1)       Amyou (x02210@1)need her
Em (022000@1)        Em/D#
No thoughts to forget when we were
A (x02220@1)     Amchildren (x02210@1)
Chorus: (Played as barre chords)
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)She is   suffering
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)              A5She (x022xx@1)sucks you deeper in
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)She is   suffering
G (320003@1) B (x2444x@1)              A5Nature's (x022xx@1)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 (x02220@1)    Ame|-5-| (x02210@1)e|-5-|
b|-5-| b|-5-|
g|-6-| g|-5-|
d|-7-| d|-7-|
a|---| a|---|
e|---| e|---|

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