Intravenous Agnostic
Band: Manic Street Preachers
Album: Know Your Enemy
Song: Intravenous Agnostic
Year: 2001
Versions: 2
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INTRAVENOUS AGNOSTIC
Transcribed by Fung Mak fung.mak@strath.ac.uk
Chords used:
G: 355433
Csus4: 8,10,10,10,88
Bb: 688766
G#5:
F#5:
E5:
B5:
D5:
INTRO
VERSE 1
G Csus4 Bb
Into a day exhibit the derelict
G Csus4 Bb
Secular mosiac distracted at birth
G Csus4 Bb
A Cubist abstraction let it live forever
G Csus4 Bb
Narcism so lovely so live by the sea
G#5 G#5 F#5 E5 E5 x3
CHORUS
B5 D5 G5 D5
Cosmetic - polemic
B5 D5 G5 D5
Distinguished - by relics
B5 D5
Destructive aesthetic
G5 D5
Intravenous agnostic
B5 D5
Intravenous agnostic
G5 D5
Intravenous agnostic
B5 D5
Intravenous agnostic
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
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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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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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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!