Biography:
Manic Street Preachers is an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as "the Manics", they are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band were originally a quartet: lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards mysteriously vanished on 1 February 1995. He was declared presumed deceased in November 2008.
The Manics released their debut album Generation Terrorists in 1992.
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Other songs:
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- I'm Just A Patsy
- If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
- Indian Summer
- Ocean Spray
- Suicide Is Painless
- Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
- 1404
- 1985
- 3 Ways To See Despair
- 30 Year War
- 4St 7Lb
- A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
- A Design For Life
- Always Never
- Anthem For A Lost Cause
- As Holy As The Soil That Buries Your Skin
- Australia
- Auto Intoxication
- Behave Yourself Baby
- Black Dog On My Shoulder
- Black Square
- Blackpool Pier
- Born A Girl
- Born To End
- Builder Of Routines
- Cant Take My Eyes Off You
- Cardiff Afterlife
- Design For Life
- Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel
- Distant Colours
- Divine Youth
- Dont Be Evil
- Door To The River
- Doors Closing Slowly
- Dylan Caitlin
- Emily
- Europa Geht Durch Mich
- Everything Must Go
- Facing Page Top Left
- Faster
- Fearless Punk Ballad
- Firefight
- From Despair To Where
- Further Away
- Futurology
- Glasnost
- Golden Platitudes
- Hazelton Avenue
- His Last Painting
- Hold Me Like A Heaven
- I Live To Fall Asleep
- I Think Ive Found It
- If You Tolerate This
- If You Tolerate This Your Children Will
- Im Just A Patsy
- In Eternity
- International Blue
- Its Not War Just The End Of Love
- Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
- La Tristesse Durera
- Last Christmas
- Let Robeson Sing
- Let Robseon Sing
- Leviathan
- Life Becoming A Landslide
- Little Baby Nothing
- Liverpool Revisited
- Masses Against The Classes
- Methadone Pretty
- Motorcycle Emptiness
- My Little Empire
- New Art Riot
- Next Jet To Leave Moscow
- No Surface All Feeling
- P C P
- Peeled Apples
- People Give In
- Picturesque
- Postcards From A Young Man
- R P Mcmurphy
- Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head
- Ready For Drowning
- Removables
- Rendition
- Revol
- Rewind The Film
- She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
- She Is Suffering
- Show Me The Wonder
- So Why So Sad
- Solitude Sometimes Is
- Some Kind Of Nothingness
- Strip It Down
- The Descent Pages 1 2
- The Everlasting
- The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
- The Second Great Depression
- Theme From Mash Suicide Is Painless
- This Is The Day
- This Is Yesterday
- This Joke Sport Severed
- This Sullen Welsh Heart
- Together Stronger
- Tsunami
- Virginia State Epileptic Colony
- Walk Me To The Bridge
- Wattsville Blues
- Why So Sad
- Williams Last Words
- You Stole The Sun From My Heart
- Youre Tender And Youre Tired
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
G D Am C x 2
G D Am C x 2 *whistle over
[Verse 1]
C#m C
Here's a true story
G
Said someone to me yesterday
Em
Said he'd heard it in a taxi
C#m C
Must have had him at my mercy
G
Drown that poor thing
Em
Put it out of its misery
Am *
Condemn it to its future
C *
Deny its history
G
Deny its history
G/F#
[Chorus]
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
[Verse 2]
C#m C
Look through my venetian blinds
G
Dusting the past off of my mind
Em
Seeing orange everywhere
C#m C
I'd go to Patagonia
G
But it's harder there
Em
I'll do anything to prove I care
Am *
Fascinated by good
C *
Destroyed by evil
G
What is there to believe in
[Chorus]
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
[Chorus]
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not wheeping we're drowning
Am D
ooohhhh
[Outro]
G D Am C x2 *whistle over
G
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| * Single strum, let ring
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G D Am C x 2
G D Am C x 2 *whistle over
[Verse 1]
C#m C
Here's a true story
G
Said someone to me yesterday
Em
Said he'd heard it in a taxi
C#m C
Must have had him at my mercy
G
Drown that poor thing
Em
Put it out of its misery
Am *
Condemn it to its future
C *
Deny its history
G
Deny its history
G/F#
[Chorus]
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
[Verse 2]
C#m C
Look through my venetian blinds
G
Dusting the past off of my mind
Em
Seeing orange everywhere
C#m C
I'd go to Patagonia
G
But it's harder there
Em
I'll do anything to prove I care
Am *
Fascinated by good
C *
Destroyed by evil
G
What is there to believe in
[Chorus]
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
[Chorus]
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not ready for drowning
Em Am
So where are we going
D G G/F# Em
We're not wheeping we're drowning
Am D
ooohhhh
[Outro]
G D Am C x2 *whistle over
G
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| * Single strum, let ring
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