Van der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man
from the album Godbluff (1975).
Transcribed by Cory (coryp23@gmail.com), July 2010

F#m (244222@1)  F#sus (244322@1)E (022100@1)   D (xx0232@1) C#m--2-----2-----4-----2-------| (x13321@4)--2-----2-----5-----3----5--|
--2-----4-----4-----2----6--|
--4-----4-----6-----0----6--|
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F#m (244222@1)       F#sus 
Here at the glass - 
              F#m (244222@1)                      F#sus
all the usual problems, all the habitual farce.
F#m (244222@1)                 F#sus
You ask, in uncertain voice, 
                F#mwhat (244222@1)you should do,
                   E (022100@1)                Das (xx0232@1)if there were a choice but to carry on 
           C#mmiming (x13321@4)the song
                              F#mand (244222@1)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 (244222@1)                        F#sus
still that's only from one point of view
                    F#m/A                Eand (022100@1)we can't have illusion between me and you,
           D (xx0232@1)                   C#mmy (x13321@4)constant friend, ever close at hand -
                      F#myou (244222@1)and the undercover man.

[E F#]E/G#           B/D#---------0----------------| (x2544x@1)---------0-------------4--|
---------1-------------4--|
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-0-2--4-------------------|
 I re flect: 'It's very strange
                        D (xx0232@1)to be going through this change
                          Gwith (320003@1)no idea of what it's all been about

[E    F (133211@1)G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)B (x2444x@1)  C#]Bb/D         Bb (x1333x@1)name="chord_x244xx@1">B5 
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-------------------------3--|       --3--3--|
-------------------------3--|       --3--3--|
-------------------------3--|       --3--2--|
--------------0--2----4--5--|       --1--1--|
--0----1--3-----------------|       --------|
 [E    F (133211@1)G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)B (x2444x@1)  C#]Bb/D  
except in the context of time...'
          Bb (x1333x@1)    B5 (x244xx@1)                                  COh, (x32010@1)but I shirk it, I've half a mind not to work it all out.

D (xx0232@1) C (x32010@1)C#dim------------| (3423xx@1)--7---5--5--|
--7---5--3--|
--7---5--5--|
--5---3--4--|
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D (xx0232@1)                                G (320003@1)              AIs (x02220@1)this madness just the recurring wave of total emotion,
    D (xx0232@1)                      G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)                
or a hide for the undercover man,
     D (xx0232@1)                        G (320003@1)                  Aor (x02220@1)a litany - all the signs are there of fervent devotion -

D (xx0232@1)  C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)Cmaj7 (x32000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C      C (x32010@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)F----------------8--7------------8---7------5--| (133211@1)-------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 (2312xx@1)name="chord_2312xx@1">Adim Cdim (2312xx@1)           Ebdim (2312xx@1)  Em---------------------------------------------| (022000@1)-----1-------4---7---------------10-------8--|
-----2-------5---8---------------11-------9--|
-----1-------4---7---------------10-------9--|
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-----2-------5---8---------------11----------|
It's cracked;        smashed and bursting over you,
             D (xx0232@1)                     Cthere (x32010@1)was no reason to expect such disaster.

B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)  EmMaj7  G/D (4x3121@7) A/C#-----7--| (042220@1)---7--| --3-----5--|
-7---8--| ---8--| --3-----5--|
-8---9--| ---8--| --4-----6--|
-9------| ------| --5--------|
-9---7--| ---6--| --5-----4--|
-7------| ------| -----------|
B (x2444x@1)  Em (022000@1)                   
Now, panicking, you burst for air,
EmMaj7
drowning, you know you care
G/D (4x3121@7)                           A/C# (042220@1)  
for nothing and no-one but yourself
          Gand (320003@1)would deny even this hand
                Bm (x24432@1)  D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)    Gwhich (320003@1)stretches out towards you to help.

Gmaj7 (xx5432@1)           Cmaj7 (x32000@1)        C (x32010@1)     B--------------------------------------------------------| (x2444x@1)------------3-----------------5--------------5-------4--|
------------4-----------------4--------------5-------4--|
------------4-----------------5--------------5-------4--|
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But would I leave you in this moment of your trial?
            Gmaj7 (xx5432@1)     Cmaj7 (x32000@1)         C (x32010@1)BIs (x2444x@1)it my fault that I'm here to see you crying?

Am (x02210@1)         Am+                  Am------------------------------------------------------------| (x02210@1)----------------------1------------1---------------------1--|
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These phantom figures all around you should have told you,
                Am+          Gyou (320003@1)should have found out by now,
                                                Cif (x32010@1)you hadn't gone and tried to do it all by yourself.

Ab (xx1114@1)Bb (x1333x@1)C (x32010@1)C#5  D5   Eb9
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Sax solo over F minor riff

[C# Eb] E (022100@1)           B/D# (x2544x@1)                        D (xx0232@1)Ev-en  now we are not lost: if you look out at the night
                               G (320003@1)you'll see the colours and the lights seem to say
[E  F (133211@1) G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) Bb (x1333x@1)C]Bb/D             Bb (x1333x@1)people are not far a-way, at least in distance,
         B5and (x244xx@1)it's only our own dumb resistance
                Cthat's (x32010@1)making us stay.

D  C  C#dim

D (xx0232@1)                                     G (320003@1)                  AWhen (x02220@1)the madness comes, let it flood on down and over me sweetly,
       D (xx0232@1)                                        G (320003@1)      Alet (x02220@1)it drown the parts of me weak and blessed and damned,
       D (xx0232@1)                           G (320003@1)                Alet (x02220@1)it slake my life, let it take my soul and living completely,
    D (xx0232@1)C (x32010@1)C (x32010@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C
let it be who I     am.

A (x02220@1)       D (xx0232@1)                       G (320003@1)             AThere (x02220@1)may not be time for us all to run in tandem together -
    D (xx0232@1)                             G (320003@1)    A (x02220@1)the horizon calls with its parallel lines.
       D (xx0232@1)                              G (320003@1)                AIt (x02220@1)may not be right for you to have and hold in one way forever
    D (xx0232@1) C (x32010@1) C (x32010@1)   Cmaj7 (x32000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C       C (x32010@1)name="chord_x32000@1">Cmaj7 Fand (133211@1)yet you still have  time,

C (x32010@1)   Cmaj7 (x32000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C     C (x32010@1)name="chord_x32000@1">Cmaj7 Fyou (133211@1)still have  time.