Transcribed by Cory
F#m F# sus E D C#m
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F#m F#sus
Here at the glass -
F#m F#sus
all the usual problems, all the habitual farce.
F#m F#sus
You ask, in uncertain voice,
F#m
what you should do,
E D
as if there were a choice but to carry on
C#m
miming the song
F#m
and hope that it all works out right.
F#sus
Tonight it all seems so strange -
F#m/A F#sus/Ab
my spirit feels rigid, my body deranged;
F#m F#sus
still that's only from one point of view
F#m/A E
and we can't have illusion between me and you,
D C#m
my constant friend, ever close at hand -
F#m
you and the undercover man.
[ E F# ]E/G# B/D#
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I re flect: 'It's very strange
D
to be going through this change
G
with no idea of what it's all been about
[ E F G A B C# ]Bb/D Bb B5
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[ E F G A B C# ]Bb/D
except in the context of time...'
Bb B5 C
Oh, but I shirk it, I've half a mind not to work it all out.
D C C#?
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D G A
Is this madness just the recurring wave of total emotion,
D G A
or a hide for the undercover man,
D G A
or a litany - all the signs are there of fervent devotion -
D C C C7M C C C7M F
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or the cracking of the dam?
C C7M C C C7M F
F#? A? C? Eb? Em
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It's cracked; smashed and bursting over you,
D C
there was no reason to expect such disaster.
B Em Em7M G/D A/C#
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B Em
Now, panicking, you burst for air,
Em7M
drowning, you know you care
G/D A/C#
for nothing and no-one but yourself
G
and would deny even this hand
Bm D A G
which stretches out towards you to help.
G7M C7M C B
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But would I leave you in this moment of your trial?
G7M C7M C B
Is it my fault that I'm here to see you crying?
Am Am+ Am
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These phantom figures all around you should have told you,
Am+ G
you should have found out by now,
C
if you hadn't gone and tried to do it all by yourself.
Ab Bb C
C#5 D5 Eb9
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Sax solo over F minor riff
[ C# Eb ] E B/D# D
Ev-en now we are not lost: if you look out at the night
G
you'll see the colours and the lights seem to say
[ E F G A Bb C ]Bb/D Bb
people are not far a-way, at least in distance,
B5
and it's only our own dumb resistance
C
that's making us stay.
D C C#?
D G A
When the madness comes, let it flood on down and over me sweetly,
D G A
let it drown the parts of me weak and blessed and damned,
D G A
let it slake my life, let it take my soul and living completely,
D C C C7M C
let it be who I am.
A D G A
There may not be time for us all to run in tandem together -
D G A
the horizon calls with its parallel lines.
D G A
It may not be right for you to have and hold in one way forever
D C C C7M C C C7M F
and yet you still have time,
C C7M C C C7M F
you still have time.
