Chords for Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Making Of

_ [F] _ [Am] Has that sort of [Dm] left you in a way feeling under [Am] pressure to come up with the goods this time [Dm] around?
Or has it made you even more confident now as a band?
[N] _ Well, I mean, the most [G] pressure is trying to follow up [Bb] Holy Bible really, because I didn't sell anything.
And you know, [Db] I could fall into [C] complete obscurity in our case.
_ [Am] This album could do the same with that, but it doesn't [Dm] matter so much.
_ We've reached [C] our peaks and it'd be nice to get there again, [Dm] but if we don't it's not quite a pain in the [Gm] butt.
Have you [Bbm] found it [Db] difficult to write the stuff this time around?
[Fm] Because it [C] is the first album from three.
Only the quantity, [Dm] you know, because it's easy, [Gm] lyrically.
It's easy to share, and [C] sharing lyrics with Richie, you know, just means I've got to [Am] work harder.
_ [Bb] Are you pleased with the final album?
_ _ _ I think it's the best [D] thing we've done lyrically on music.
[A] We've had time to mature and [Dm] we've had time to learn our [Gm] craft.
And I think now [C] we're at the peak I think of us being.
[Am] We've spent loads of money on it doing it as well.
[Bb] Yeah, but it's fair to say that a lot of people have taken Manic Street Preacher to their hearts [D] as well,
because you're [A] a really good light band, the stuff that we [Bb] put out, the _
_ [C] pure pop songs.
Yeah, I mean [F] with this album [C] we didn't want to [Dm] have a reaction against success.
You know, a lot of bands, [Gm] whenever they get big they seem to want to return to their indie roots.
But, you know, we did that, [D] we've done that with Holy Bible, we didn't [A] have to get big to feel like that.
If you feel like that it [F] should be natural, it shouldn't be a reaction.
I think that's [Am] the easy way out.
And this album is the most beautiful, melodic record we've ever done.
_ [Dm] _
Do you think with this album that [Bb] now you're a lot more confident that it's an easier [Db] thing to do, an easier thing to release?
[C] I don't know, because I think if you're in the studio, [Am] or if you start undertaking [Bb] an album, or write an album,
[C] with that kind of confidence and [Dm] that kind of blasé attitude, then I think [Gm] anything you do will just end up sort of shit,
[Db] or slavered, or just [C] _ undervalued.
We've never undervalued the process of [Dm] songwriting amongst us all.
And, you know, [Gm] I think for any band it's the [C] most important thing, you know, the root of [Am] all what's good or bad in the band anyway.
[Bb] So just because the last album did so well, it doesn't mean we entered the studio feeling [D] really confident, really [A] puckered or something like that, you know.
We're still [Dm] inherently very _ [Gm] discreet about our opinion or our confidence [C] in anything that we do, I think.
I mean, [Am] the last album was full of pop [Bb] songs, and, you know, Nicky was saying that he feels that this album is the most [A] beautiful and most melodic thing you've done.
Is that correct?
Yeah, I _ [Bb] definitely go along with that.
I think _ _ [C] _
it's kind of, you know, for me, [F] _ obviously it all [Dm] stems from Nick's lyrics, because I always write the music to the lyrics.
[Gm] But Nick's definitely reached a plateau of [A] pure wisdom, you know.
So everything stems from that, you know, the music.
[F] I think it's just because there is some type of very pure wisdom that one sort of attracts.
[Am] For one, it doesn't seem like an illogical rant.
It just seems [Dm] like pure truth for me.
[G] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[F] That's how I see it with the band.
[C] _ It seems to [F] be, according to Liz anyway, that there's [C] an experiment being conducted [G] on us, as well as a family which is to be shot later on.
[Am] The experiment is we've got to play the song [Em] over and over and over again until [F] it kind of _ brainwashes us into a [C] dejection.
Which [F] it did.
_ [C] I mean, the South Shore and the [G] Nuclear Family, they seem very lab, experimental kind [Am] [Dm] of horrors.
Is that what [Am] you always wanted to try to get across in the video?
_ [G] _ _ Yeah, I suppose it is in a way.
I think I look more [Dm] like Sam George, but maybe in a different [Am] way. _ _
_ [G] _ I'll do well. _
By [Am] the end of the _ _ [Em] experiment, there's work done on us and we've [F] lost whatever, [C] anything that could was [Em] about us.
It's kind of [Am] starting to disappear.
You know what's the whole [Em] thing about the facelessness in the video as [F] well?
Because, you know, it's the facelessness.
I mean, the song [C] was inspired by the International [F] Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, but [Dm] [C] we didn't want to have a literal interpretation of that.
[G] We just wanted to have a fair fighting against an evil, whatever that evil may be.
However [Am] people do it in their own way.
_ [Em] We [F] are that in the video, but [C] it's like we're losing battle. _
[F] So, you know, the sin is to say it's another typically [C] upbeat Man of Street preacher song then?
[G] Well, I mean, the lyrics are quite upbeat in a way, but, you know, [F] the [Dm] video is a little bit more, [Am] well, less euphoric.
[G] Melancholic without the euphoria.
_ I mean, why did you decide on this track [Dm] to be the choice of your first single?
[Am] _ _ _
[G] To be honest, it's just because we love it.
It's just because we love the song.
I don't think it's particularly set in the [F] agenda or anything like that.
_ [C] I just really found I could [G] analyse why I could pick the first single, except for the reason is that _ you all [Dm] kind of get a consensus on which song you think [Am] represents the spectrum of what the album is.
[G] It's just basically you all pick a favourite track which has a [F] good bearing on the album.
You just [C] pick what you're most comfortable with.
[G] I mean, this album, you know, a lot of [C] people are waiting for [G] it.
So you must be [Dm] quite [D] pleased that, you know, people are now [Am] talking about there is going to be a new Man of Street preachers album this year.
[G] I know we say that people are waiting for our [Em] albums as we've been [F] doing the evening people are waiting.
[C] So we're just quite into it. _
[G] I just thought, you know, before we released the record I always thought that would be a bit [C] _ [G] pessimistic.
I _ [D] don't know why, it's probably just a [Am] decision.
I mean, we've had a fair [G] degree of, you know, _ we've had a fair share [F] of having average _ [C] _ record sales in the past.
[G] So, you know, it's happened here.
[A] [C] So you're looking forward to going [G] back out and playing live again?
[Dm] Yeah, I'm dying to.
_ [Am] I'm dying to.
No, I'm not.
[G] The last time we did it was last August.
We did Sep, we did Wedding Day with [F] Paul.
Yeah, I'm dying to play [C] live.
Christmas is the easiest [G] part.
_ [A] I mean, [C] you know, if you thought about [G] the staging, because last time it was [D] very much video based.
You have a massive [Am] video screen behind you.
Yeah, I think [G] the first tour and the release of the album is going to be quite simple.
_ [F] Then hopefully it's all round about Christmas [C] time, the bigger tour. _