Manic Street Preachers
4st 7lb (ver 3) Chords
This is my best effort at this, the bass riff is played during the verses, but it sounds okay on the guitar,
Words are correct I think, chords sound okay to me but may not be exactly right. Please rate/comment
Bass riff
G---------3-3---------3-3-------------2-2--------2-2-----
A-----1-1---------1-1------1-0----1-1--------1-1-----1-0-
E-3-3--------3-3---------3----3-3--------3-3--------3----
C
I eat to much to die and not enough to stay alive, I'm sitting in the middle, waiting
VERSE 1:
NC
Days since I last pissed, cheeks sunken and despaired
So gorgeous sunk to six stone, lose my only remaining home
See my third rib appear, a week later all my flesh disappears
Stretching taut, cling film on bone, I'm getting better
Am Dm
Karen says I've reached my target weight
G C
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake, problem is diet's not a big enough word
B Em
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
CHORUS:
D#5 D5 C5 D5 D#5 D5 C5 D5
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not leave a footprint
D#5 D5 C5 D5 D#5 D5 C5 D5
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not soil its purity
VERSE 2:
NC
Stomach collapsed at five, lift up my skirt, my sex is gone
Naked and lovely, I'm five stone two, may I bud and never flower
My vision's getting blurred but I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks and I can feel my breasts are sinking
Am Dm
Mother trys to choke me with roast beef
G C
And sits savouring her sole ryvita, that's the way you're built my father said
B Em
But I can change, my cocoon shedding
CHORUS:
D# D Cm D D# D Cm D
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not leave a footprint
D# D Cm D D# D Cm D
I, I, I, I, I want to walk in the snow and not soil its purity
BREAK: Db C F G
ENDING:
C F G
Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat, all things I like looking at
C F G Am
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die, choice is skeletal in everybody's life
C F G
I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy, hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
C F G Am
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy and I don't mind the horror that surrounds me
C F G
Self worth scatters, self esteem's a bore, I long since moved to a higher plateau
C F G Am
This discipline's so rare so please applaud, just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
C F G
Yeah four stone seven, an epilogue of youth, such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
C F G Am
I've finally come to understand life through staring blankly at my navel