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Manic Street Preachers "Democracy Coma"
B-side to: Repeat/Love's Sweet Exile
transcribed by Michael Bromley

INTRO
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One guitar plays muted A chord, another plays this:

   A(muted)                                                   D
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9h11-11-11p9-------------7h9-9-9p7-------------5h6-6-6p4-------|
D|--------------11-9-11----------------7-10-----------------4-7---|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|

C#
F#          D          B         E 
Condemned, condemned, condemned, condemned x2

During the chorus the bass plays this:
  F#             D                       B            E  
G|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---------------------------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
E|---------------10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-7-7-7-7-7-7-7------------------|

VERSE
=====

(bass) F#          D              B               E         
Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we are bought
 F#          D              B               E   
Screaming comatose with blackboard chalk
 F#          D              B               E   
Siphoned minds suck a wallet full of love
 F#          D              B               E   
Spitting out a language I don't wanna talk

CHORUS
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E      A      D  A E      A      D  A  
Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
E      A      D  A E      A      D  A 
Mother of the free but we just scream

On the first and last choruses, the chorus ends as follows:
E D# D C# D C#

FILL
====
C#                   B            A
Parliament mother of United Nations
C#                   B            A
Mother of history's dead sun, dead suns
C#                   B            A
DNA of restriction and law
C#                   B            A
Death, famine, spectacle and war

SOLO
====
   E
e|---------7-----7-----7--------------| 
B|-7-7-7h9---7h9---7h9---7h9-7h9------| 
G|-------------------------------9----| 
D|------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------| 
   A
e|-------12-------12-------14-12---------|
B|-12h14----12h14----12h14-------14-12---|
G|-------------------------------------14|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
   E
e|---------7-----7-----7--------------| 
B|-7-7-7h9---7h9---7h9---7h9-7h9------| 
G|-------------------------------9----| 
D|------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------| 
  A
e|-------12-------12------------|
B|-12h14----12h14----12-14(15)--|
G|------------------------------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|

then back to the bass part, half way through this is played
e|--------------------------------|
B|-12-10-12-10-12~13~12-10--------|
G|-------------------------13-----|
D|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|


Lyrics
======

To me the coronation's another auto-da-fe
Taught in schools to see her as a glorious being
I don't see happy homes but the Belfast wall
In Walkman sounds hear Sony control

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

Parliament mother of United Nations
Mother of history's dead sun, dead suns
DNA of restriction and law
Death, famine, spectacle and war

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

In Walkman sounds hear Sony control

...and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars,
whole intellects disgorged in total recall...

(Sample taken from Allen Ginberg's HOWL [1956])