Still Life Chords by Van Der Graaf Generator

[G#] _ _ _ _ Sip, _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [A] _ reverberates _ _ _ to [B] a _ thousand [E] _ _ voices
[B] Now done, _ _ _ what have we [A] become?
_ _ What have [E] we chosen [G#] to be?
_ _ Now [A#] _ [A] all _ _ _ history _ [C#m] is [D#m] reduced
To [E] the syllables of [B] our name
Nothing can ever [A] be the same
_ Now [G#m] the immortals are _ here _ _
At [C#m] the time it _ seemed a _ reasonable _ _ _ _ course
[B] To harness all the _ force
[A] Of life without the threat of death
But [F#m] soon we [G#] found that boredom and inertia
Are not negatives but all the law we [C#m] know
And dead [F#] are will and [B] words [A] like survival _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ Arrival _
[C#m] _ at _ [A] _ _ _
immunity
_ [C#m] From [B] all _ age, all [E] fear _ [B] and all end
_ Why _ do [A] I pretend _ our essence is [G#]
distilled
_ And all _ [A]
familiar _ _ _ taste is now [B] _ drained
[E] And no purity [B] is maintained
_ _ _ It leaves us [C#m] _ sterile
_ Living through the [F#] millions _ [C#m] of _ _ years
[B] A laugh as close as any tear
_ _ [A] Living if you claim that all that [F#m] entails
[G#] Is breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, [B] sleeping
Sinking ever down and down and ultimately passing away
[A] Time _ _ _ which no [Bm] longer has any [C#] meaning
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [B]
Take _ _ [C#] _ _ away the threat [B] of death
And [C#] all your death quivers around [B] the make believe
_ [C#] _ And _
[G#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ all your ultimately bought [B] by endless _ [F#] exorcise
[C#] Shall now reign with your health to be [B] _ engaged
[C#] To marry the [F#] girl who will live you [B] [C#] forever
It's dainty [B] and [C#] stately, that simply [B] is not _ _ [A] _ [E] _ [F#m] _ [F#] fair
[C#] _ _ _ [E] _ [D#] _ _ [Bm] _ [F#] _
[C#] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [B] _ [A#m] _
[C#] _ _ _ [A#] _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ _ [A#] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ _ _ [A#m] _
[C#] _ Is [C#m] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ this [G#] the [A] list that blunts us of pain
Shots [B] at my _ eyes [E] never close without [B] feeling it burn _
_ What a [A] gesture, _ _ demands an end
[G#] To all things _ _ _ [A] _ _ unfitting
_ _ If we [B] have gain, how [E] do we now meet [B] the cost
What have we bargained, what have [A] we lost
What have we relinquished, [E] never knowing it [G#m] was theirs _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] Now _ _
[D#] _ _ [C#m] _ we're folding up, _ _ _ _ [B] defying death _
_ _ _ _ [A] Everything we had is gone
Everything [G#] we labored for and favored more than us
These things we view as [C#m] the hollowing of _
[B] hope, _ _ [A] falsehood _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] But [C#m] now the nuptial bed, _ _ _
_ _ [B] the dowry has been _ paid
[A] The toothless haggard features _ of eternity
[F#m] Now [C#m] welcome [A] me between the sheets
[F#m] To [C#m] couple [F#] with her [C#m] withered [F#m] body
_ [A] My _ wife _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ [A] has [C#m] forever
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Has [F#] forever
_ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [F#] Has [D#] forever _ _
In _ _ _ _ [E] _ [C#m] still _ life _ _ _ _ _
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[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _
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