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Van der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man from the album Godbluff (1975). Transcribed by Cory (coryp23@gmail.com), July 2010 F#m F# sus E D C#m --2-----2-----4-----2-------| --2-----2-----5-----3----5--| --2-----4-----4-----2----6--| --4-----4-----6-----0----6--| -------------------------4--| ----------------------------|
F#mHere at the F#susglass - all the usual F#mproblems, all the habitual F#susfarce. F#mYou ask, in uncertain F#susvoice, what you should F#mdo, as if there were a Echoice but to carryD on miming the C#msong and hope that it all works outF#m right.
Tonight it all seems soF#sus strange - F#m/A F#sus/G# my spirit feels rigid, my body deranged; still F#mthat's only from one point ofF#sus view F#m/A E and we can't have illusion between me and you, my constantD friend, ever close atC#m hand - you and the undercoverF#m man.
[E F#]E/G# B/D# ---------0----------------| ---------0-------------4--| ---------1-------------4--| ---------2-------------4--| -----------------------6--| -0-2--4-------------------| I re flect: 'It's very strange
to be going through thisD change with no idea of what it's Gall been about
[E F G A B C#]Bb/D Bb B5 ----------------------------| --------| -------------------------3--| --3--3--| -------------------------3--| --3--3--| -------------------------3--| --3--2--| --------------0--2----4--5--| --1--1--| --0----1--3-----------------| --------| [E F G A B C#]Bb/D except in the context of time...'
Oh, but I Bbshirk itB5, I've half a mind not to work it all Cout. --D----C---C#dim---| --7---5--5--| --7---5--3--| --7---5--5--| --5---3--4--| ------------|
DIs this madness just the recurring Gwave of total emoAtion, or aD hide for the undercover Gman, A or a Dlitany - all the signs are Gthere of fervent devoAtion -
-------D-----C----C8--Cmaj77-----C-------C8---Cmaj77------F5--| -------7----5---5--5-----8------5---5------6--| -------7----5---5--5-----9------5---5------5--| -------7----5---5--5-----10-----5---5------7--| -------5----3------------10-------------------| -------------------------8--------------------| or the cracking of the dam?
C Cmaj7 C C Cmaj7 F
-----F#dim------Adim-----Cdim-----------------Ebdim---------Em---| -----1-------4---7---------------10-------8--| -----2-------5---8---------------11-------9--| -----1-------4---7---------------10-------9--| ------------------------------------------7--| -----2-------5---8---------------11----------| It's cracked; smashed and bursting over you, there was no Dreason to expect such diCsaster.
B Em EmMaj7 G/D A/Db -----7--| ---7--| --3-----5--| -7---8--| ---8--| --3-----5--| -8---9--| ---8--| --4-----6--| -9------| ------| --5--------| -9---7--| ---6--| --5-----4--| -7------| ------| -----------|
BNow, Empanicking, you burst for air, EmMaj7 drowning, you know you care G/Dfor nothing and no-one but yoursA/Dbelf and would Gdeny even this hand which stretches Bmout toDwards Ayou to Ghelp.
------------Gmaj7------------------Cmaj7---------------C--------B---| ------------3-----------------5--------------5-------4--| ------------4-----------------4--------------5-------4--| ------------4-----------------5--------------5-------4--| ------------------------------3--------------3-------2--| ------------3-------------------------------------------| But would I leave you in this moment of your trial? Is it my fauGmaj7lt that I'm Cmaj7here to see you CcryBing?
Am Am+ Am ------------------------------------------------------------| ----------------------1------------1---------------------1--| --------------------2------------2---------------------2----| ------------------2------------3---------------------2------| --------------r-0----------r-0-------------------r-0--------| ------------------------------------------------------------| These phantom figures all around you should have told you, Am+ G you should have found out by now,
if you hadn't gone and tried to do it all by youCrself. Ab Bb C
Db5-----D5-----Eb9---| ----------6--| --6--7----6--| --6--7----5--| --4--5----6--| -------------|
Sax solo over F minor riff [Db Eb] E B/D# D Ev-en now we are not lost: if you look out at the night
you'll see the colours and the Glights seem to say [E F G A Bb C]Bb/D Bb people are not far a-way, at least in distance, and it's B5only our own dumb resistance that's making usC stay.
D C C#dim
DWhen the madness comes, let it flood on Gdown and over me sweeAtly, let it Ddrown the parts of me weak and blessed and Gdamned, A let it Dslake my life, let it take my Gsoul and living comApletely, let Dit Cbe Cwho Cmaj7I Cam.
AThere may Dnot be time for us all to Grun in tandem toAgether - the Dhorizon calls with its parallel Glines. A It may Dnot be right for you to have and Ghold in one way forAever and Dyet Cyou Cstill Cmaj7have Ctime, C Cmaj7 F
you Cstill Cmaj7have Ctime. C Cmaj7 F