We Her Majestys Prisoners
Manic Street Preachers Key
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from the B side of the 1991 single Motown Junk
Tab by James Glover (Sebadont)
Standard Tuning
Intro
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Verse
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Jewels drip red and I dont sound proud
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Treason is ambition I want dead procession
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All we got unholy left overs of a compromise
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Leaving us like butterflies trapped in frost bow down
Chorus
Piano lead tabbed for guitar
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you
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Verse
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Englands glory lives on in world wide genocide
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So celebrate Buchenwald as Her Majestys heir
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Now an obsolete face on a currency of illusion
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No matter what we own we can't buy freedom
Chorus
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you
Bridge
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Throw myself against you cause you aint frail
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Underneath silk riches sixty six million giving slaves
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This needle of religions gonna rust in my skin
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Tear out and exit obeyance of created sin
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Chorus
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you baby
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Verse
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Faces pressed at gates of anniversary torture
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Without these fake images we'd never bow down
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Dont need this history but we still accept
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Conscripted into a past that invents our guilt
Chorus
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you
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Ceremony rape machine Love wont corrode you
Outro
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...you are my lover
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During the outro we have at least one guitar overdub with heavy reverb/delay playing
constant bends high up the neck:
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B|-17----17----17----17----17----17----17----17----17----17----17----|
G|-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-19b21-|
D|E|------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
A|E|------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
E|E|------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
b - bend up
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
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