Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers - 4st71b guitar tab

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:11:18 +0000

From: Starla Iha

Subject: 4st7lb TAB MSP

Artist: Manic Street Preachers

Song:4st 7lb

Album: The Holy Bible

This (if you hadn't already guessed) is a song Richey wrote about anorexia.

It sound's really good on acoustic, but then again that's what it was

written for.

Bye-bye!

Rosie :)

The riff below is repeated quite often throughout the song.

Listen to the record to find the exact times when the chords

start.

e--------------------------------------------------------

B--------------------------------------------------------

D--------------------------------------------------------

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----

I think that the chords for the chorus are C- 032010

and D- XX0232

Hope this helps!!

Lyrics

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verse

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Days since I last pissed

cheeks sunkend and despaired

so gorgeous sunk to six stone

lose my only remaining home

see my third rib appear

a week later all my flesh disappear

stretching taut, cling-film on bone

I'm getting better

Karen says I've reached my target weight

Kate and Emma Kristin know it's fake

problem is diet's not a big enough word

Chorus

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I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view

I want to walk in the snow

and not leave a footprint

I want to walk in the snow

and not soil its purity

Verse

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stomach collapsed at five

lift up my skirt my sex is gone

naked and lovely at 5st.2

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

mother trys to choke me with roast beef

and sits savouring her sole ryvitta

that's the way you're built my father said

but I can change, my cocoon shedding

chorus

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I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view

I want to walk in the snow

and not leave a footprint

I want to walk in the snow

and not soil its purity

Verse

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Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat

all things I like looking at

too weak to fuss, too weak to die

choice is skeletal in everybody's life

I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy

hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires

legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy

and I don't mind the horror that surrounds me

self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore

I long since moved to a higher plateau

this discipline's so rare so please applaud

just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

yeh 4st.7, an epilogue of youth

such beautiful dignity in self-abuse

I've finally come to understand life

through staring blankly at my navel.

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