Manic Street Preachers
We Her Majesty's Prisoners
Transcribed by Phil Payton and Neill Turner
Email: philpayton@hotmail.com, dead_end_doll59@hotmail.com
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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Jewels drip red and I dont sound proud
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Treason's ambition I want dead procession
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All we got unholy leftovers of a compromise
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Leaving us like butterflies trapped in the frost
Bow down
Chorus:
F F (one strum at each indication)
Ceremonial rape machine
F F
Love won't corrode you
F F
Ceremonial rape machine
F F
Love won't corrode you
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Verse 2 (as verse 1):
England's glory lives on in worldwide genocide
So celebrate Buchenwald as her majesty's heir
Now an obsolete face on a currency of illusion
No matter what we own we can't buy freedom
Chorus
Bridge:
Riff 1:
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Riff 2:
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Throw myself against you cos you ain't frail
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Underneath silk riches 66 million giving slaves
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This needle of religion's gonna rust in my skin
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Tear out and exit obeyance of created sin
Chorus
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Verse 3 (as verse 1):
Faces pressed at gates of anniversary torture
Without these fake images we'd never bow down
Don't need this history but we still accept
Conscripted into a past that invents our guilt
Chorus
Solo:
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Outro:
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Hold the future
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You are my lover
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