Chord/Tab song: Intravenous Agnostic

Band: Manic Street Preachers
Album: Know Your Enemy
Song: Intravenous Agnostic
Year: 2001
Versions: 2





INTRAVENOUS AGNOSTIC
Transcribed by Fung Mak [email protected]
Chords used:
G: 355433
Csus4: 8,10,10,10,88
Bb: 688766
G#5:
F#5:
E5:
B5:
D5:

[INTRO]
[VERSE 1]
[G]Into a day exhib[Csus4]it the derel[Bb]ict
[G]Secular mosiac d[Csus4]istracted at[Bb] birth
[G]A Cubist abstrac[Csus4]tion let it [Bb]live forever
[G]Narcism so lovel[Csus4]y so live by[Bb] the sea
G#5 G#5 F#5 E5 E5 x3
[CHORUS]
[B5]Cosmet[D5]ic - [G5]polem[D5]ic
[B5]Disti[D5]nguished[G5] - b[D5]y relics
[B5]Destructive aest[D5]hetic
[G5]Intravenous ag[D5]nostic
[B5]Intravenous ag[D5]nostic
[G5]Intravenous ag[D5]nostic
[B5]Intravenous ag[D5]nostic
[G5]Intravenous
[VERSE]
Brutality is needed in capitalist society
Television abandoned my very entity
Nature fucked me but then it made me
We all pray for pluralist babies
[CHORUS]
[SOLO]

e||-2-2-2-2----------------------------------|
B||---------3-3-3-3--3-4-4-4-4---------------|
G||----------------------------5--4--2-4b5r4-|
D||------------------------------------------|
A||------------------------------------------|
E||------------------------------------------|
e||-2-2-2-2----------------------------------|
B||---------3-3-3-3--3-4-4-4-4---------------|
G||----------------------------5--4--2-4-4-4-|
D||------------------------------------------|
A||------------------------------------------|
E||------------------------------------------|
e||-2-2-2-2--------------------------------------|
B||---------3-3-3-3b4r3--3-4-4-4-4---------------|
G||--------------------------------5--4--2-4b5r4-|
D||----------------------------------------------|
A||----------------------------------------------|
E||----------------------------------------------|
e||-2-2-2-2----------------------------------|
B||---------3-3-3-3--3-4-4-4-4---------------|
G||----------------------------5--4--2-4b5r4-|
D||------------------------------------------|
A||------------------------------------------|
E||------------------------------------------|

(tremolo picking)

e||---------------------------------------------/10-10-10--|
B||-6/7-7-7-7/8-8-8-8-8b10-10-10-10/12-12-12-12------------|
G||--------------------------------------------------------|
D||--------------------------------------------------------|
A||--------------------------------------------------------|
E||--------------------------------------------------------|
e||-8--7-7-7-7--/10-10-10--8--7-7-7-7--/(18)/\/-(plucking string randomly at same time)-|
B||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[CHORUS]
Dismayed - dispossed
Life becomes calvanist
So sparkle and believe
Linguistics die easily





Author/Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Title: Intravenous Agnostic
Album: Know Your Enemy
Transcribed by: jdbsguitar


Chords used:-
G (x.10.12.12.x.x)
F (x.8.10.10.x.x)
Eb (x.6.8.8.x.x)
Bb (6.8.8.x.x.x)
G#5 (4.6.6.x.x.x)
F5 (1.3.3.x.x.x)
F (x.6.x.8.x.x)
B5 (7.9.9.x.x.x) or (x.1.3.3.x.x)
D5 (x.5.7.7.x.x)
G5 (3.5.5.x.x.x)
Intro G, F, Eb
Verse G, F, Eb, Bb
Bridge G#5, F5 x4

Chorus B5, D5, G5, D5 and add this slide riff when appropriate -

"intravenous agnostic.....Intravenous agnostic"

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-5s10-5s10-5s10---------------------------------------------------------------

and end with F strumming fast, then back to verse chords

Middle 8 -

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--11-----7---8-5--4bu6--------------------------------------------------------
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listen to record for timing and how many times to pick each note, also bend up a step on 7 above for some variation

Solo -

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-15b-17rb15-13-12-------------------------------------------------------------
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repeat bit on b string twice and add as much vibrato and plucking on each and every note as
posible! For the squealing bit just mess around on the g, b, e strings getting right up by the
pick ups at the end.

End on D5 chord and let ring. Enjoy!