Van_der_Graaf_Generator_-_Childlike_Faith_in_Childhoods_End
from_the_album_Still_Life_(1976).
Transcribed_by_Cory_(
[email protected]),_2010
[G_C_D____C__B_D_____C__B]___F#dim_G#dim
Existence_is_a_stage_on_which_we_pass,
[G#_A___B___C_____B___A____B]__D
a_sleepwalk_trick_for_mind_and_heart;
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its_hopeless,_I_know,_but_onward_I_must_go
_F________________E
and_try_to_make_a_start
n.C.
at_seeing_something_more_
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than_day_to_day_survival,_chased_by_final_death.
_______________________G______________________________F
if_I_believed_this_the_sum_of_the_life_to_which_weve_come,
____________________Em
I_wouldnt_waste_my_breath.
Am__________________________________
Somehow,_there_must_be_more.
Bm____G
C_____Csus_______C_______________________E___
There_was_a_time_when_more_was_felt_than_known
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but_now,_entrenched_inside_my_sett,
______________G_________________________________F
in_light_more_mundane,_thought_rattles_round_my_brain:
______________________Em
we_live,_we_die...and_yet?
Riff_1:
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Riff_1
In_the_beginning_there_was_order_and_destiny
but_now_that_path_has_reached_the_border_and_on_our_knees_
is_no_way_to_face_the_future,_whatever_it_be.
Am________________G________________F
Though_the_forces_which_hold_us_in_place
_____________Am________G_______F
last_through_eons_in_unruffled_grace
F__________________E
we,_too,_wear_the_face_of_creation.
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Riff_1
As_anti-matter_sucks_and_pulses_periodically
the_bud_unfolds,_the_bloom_is_dead,_all_space_is_living_history.
It_seems_as_though_time_must_betray_us_yet_were_alive
and_though_I_see_no_God_to_save_us,_yet_we_survive
Dm___________________________A7_______________
through_the_centuries_of_progress
Dm_____________________Bb
which_dont_get_us_very_far.
A7___Dm______________________A7
All_illusion!_All_is_bogus...
Dm_____________________Bb_____Gm____A
we_dont_yet_know_what_we_are.
Riff_1_________
Laughing,_hoping,_praying,_joking,_Son_of_Man,
with_lowered_eyes_but_lifting_hearts,_were_grains_of_sand
and_though,_in_time,_the_sea_may_claim_us_for_its_own
we_are_the_rocks_which_root_the_future_-_on_us_it_grows!
Dm_____________________________A7
We_might_not_be_there_to_share_it
Dm______________Bb___A7____Dm____________________A7___
if_eternitys_a_jest_but_I_think_that_I_can_bear_it
Dm______________________Bb_____Gm____A
if_the_next_life_is_the_best.
(riff_1_with_solos)
4:17
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G____Am____________G_______________F____________
Even_if_there_is_a_heaven_when_we_die,
________Am________________G__________________F
endless_bliss_would_be_as_meaningless_as_the_lie
____________Am_____________G________
that_always_comes_as_answer_to_the_question
F__________________________E7
"Why_do_we_see_through_the_eyes_of_creation?"
Bm__D__F#sus_F#m__[D_E]_Bsus_[D_C]_Asus
Bm_______________F#m
Adrift_without_a_course,
_____[D_E]_Bsus__Bm
its_very_lonely_here,
__________Asus
our_only_conjecture
_____A_______________Bm__________F#m
what_lies_behind_the_dark.
F#m________________Em
Still,_I_find_I_can_cling_to_a_lifeline,
Bm______________________________Esus_____________Em
think_of_a_lifetime_which_means_more_than_my_own_one,
Esus________Em________Bm7_________Bm
dreams_of_a_grander_thing_than_we_are.
[C#_D]___F#m________Em
Time_and_Space_hang_heavy_on_my_shoulders...
Bm____________________[G__A]__E7sus
when_all_life_is_over_who_can_say
_______Em________________Bsus_____B________E
no_mutated_force_shall_remain?
_________
E________________________B7_F#m_____B7___
Though_the_towers_of_the_city
E________________B7__F#m_B7
are_denied_to_we_men_of__clay
E______________________B7____F#m_B7______F#m__G#7
still_we_know_we_shall_scale_the_heights_some_day.
G#7_______________(E)______________________
Frightened_in_the_silence,_frightened,_but
A________E/G#_E____B_
thinking_ve_-_ry___hard,_
E________________B7_F#m__B7_____E
let_us_make_computations_of_the_stars.
E_B_E
[Instrumental_section]
Riff_1_________
Older,_wiser,_sadder,_blinder,_watch_us_run:
faster,_longer,_harder,_stronger,_now_it_comes...
colour_blisters,_image_splinters_gravitate
towards_the_centre,_in_final_splendour_disintegrate.
Dm__________________A7
The_universe_now_beckons
Dm_______________________Bb__
and_Man,_too,_must_take_His_place;
A7_____Dm__________________A7_
just_a_few_last_fleeting_seconds
Dm_______________Bb____Gm______A
to_wander_in_the_waste,
________Am________________G_______________F
and_the_children_who_were_ourselves_move_on,
_______Am_________________G_____________F
reincarnation_stills_its_now_perfected_song,
_____Am____________G____________F________Bsus___B
and_at_last_we_are_free_of_the_bonds_of_creation.
_________
E__________________B________E___________________B
All_the_jokers_and_gaolers,_all_the_junkies_and_slavers_too,
E________________________B_____________G#7
all_the_throng_who_have_danced_a_merry_tune...
G#7__________E____________________A_______E/G#_E____B_
human_we_can_all_be,_but_Humanity_we_must_rise_above,
E__________________B__________________E
in_the_name_of_all_faith_and_hope_and_love.
E______________________B_________E__________________B___
Theres_a_time_for_all_pilgrims,_and_a_time_for_the_fakers_too,
E____________________B__________________________G#7
theres_a_time_when_we_all_will_stand_alone_and_nude,
G#7__________E_____________________A___E/G#_E_____B
naked_to_the_galaxies...naked,_but_clothed_in_the_overview:
E_______________________B____________E
as_we_reach_Childhoods_End_we_start_anew.
_________E_____________B__
And_though_dark_is_the_highway,
E_______________________B
and_the_peaks_distance_breaks_my_heart,
E_________________B_______________________G#7
for_I_never_shall_see_it,_still_I_play_my_part,
_______________________E
believing_that_what_waits_for_us
______________A__________E/G#______E______B
is_the_cosmos_compared_to_the_dust_of_the_past.
E____________________B_________________E_________
In_the_death_of_mere_Humans_Life_shall_start!
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