Transcribed by Cory
F#5 F#5 sus E5 D5 C#5
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F#5 F#sus
Here at the glass -
F#5 F#sus
all the usual problems, all the habitual farce.
F#5 F#sus
You ask, in uncertain voice,
F#5
what you should do,
E5 D5
as if there were a choice but to carry on
C#5
miming the song
F#5
and hope that it all works out right.
F#sus
Tonight it all seems so strange -
F#5 F#5
my spirit feels rigid, my body deranged;
F#5 F#sus
still that's only from one point of view
F#5 E5
and we can't have illusion between me and you,
D5 C#5
my constant friend, ever close at hand -
F#5
you and the undercover man.
[ E5 F#5 ]E5 B5
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I re flect: 'It's very strange
D5
to be going through this change
G5
with no idea of what it's all been about
[ E5 F5 G5 A5 B5 C#5 ]Bb5 Bb5 B5
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[ E5 F5 G5 A5 B5 C#5 ]Bb5
except in the context of time...'
Bb5 B5 C5
Oh, but I shirk it, I've half a mind not to work it all out.
D5 C5 C#5
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D5 G5 A5
Is this madness just the recurring wave of total emotion,
D5 G5 A5
or a hide for the undercover man,
D5 G5 A5
or a litany - all the signs are there of fervent devotion -
D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 F5
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or the cracking of the dam?
C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 F5
F#5 A5 C5 Eb5 E5
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It's cracked; smashed and bursting over you,
D5 C5
there was no reason to expect such disaster.
B5 E5 Em7M G5 A5
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B5 E5
Now, panicking, you burst for air,
Em7M
drowning, you know you care
G5 A5
for nothing and no-one but yourself
G5
and would deny even this hand
B5 D5 A5 G5
which stretches out towards you to help.
G5 C5 C5 B5
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But would I leave you in this moment of your trial?
G5 C5 C5 B5
Is it my fault that I'm here to see you crying?
A5 Am+ A5
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These phantom figures all around you should have told you,
Am+ G5
you should have found out by now,
C5
if you hadn't gone and tried to do it all by yourself.
Ab5 Bb5 C5
C#5 D5 Eb5
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Sax solo over F minor riff
[ C#5 Eb5 ] E5 B5 D5
Ev-en now we are not lost: if you look out at the night
G5
you'll see the colours and the lights seem to say
[ E5 F5 G5 A5 Bb5 C5 ]Bb5 Bb5
people are not far a-way, at least in distance,
B5
and it's only our own dumb resistance
C5
that's making us stay.
D5 C5 C#5
D5 G5 A5
When the madness comes, let it flood on down and over me sweetly,
D5 G5 A5
let it drown the parts of me weak and blessed and damned,
D5 G5 A5
let it slake my life, let it take my soul and living completely,
D5 C5 C5 C5 C5
let it be who I am.
A5 D5 G5 A5
There may not be time for us all to run in tandem together -
D5 G5 A5
the horizon calls with its parallel lines.
D5 G5 A5
It may not be right for you to have and hold in one way forever
D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 F5
and yet you still have time,
C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 F5
you still have time.
