Chords for Van Der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man

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[F#m] _ _ Here, _ _ _ [C#m] _
that's all the usual [F#m] _ problem, [G#] all the habitual sauce [F#m] you ask. _
[E] In [G#] uncertain voice, what [F#m] you should do?
As if there were [E] a choice but to [D] carry on,
_ [C#m] Miming the song [A] and hope that it all [F#m] works out right.
But _ tonight it all seems [C#] so strange, my spirit [A] feels rigid,
My [G#] body deranged, _ [F#m] still raths, only from [B] one point [C#] of view.
And we can't [A] have illusion between me and [E] you,
My constant [D] friend, ever close [C#m] at hand, [A] you and the [F#m] undercover man.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ _
[F] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] I reflect, _ it's [D#m] very strange, [B] to be [D] going through this change,
With no [G] idea of what it's all been about, except in the [A#] context of time.
But I shuck it, [C] I'm off a line not to work it, _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _ [D] Is this madness just a recurring [G] wave of social [A] emotion,
Or [D] a hide for the [G] undercover man?
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[D] Or a litany of the signs, [G] are there a [A] carbon devotion?
[D] Or the [C] clagging of _ _ _ [F] _
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[F#m] the_
It's cracked, [B] smashed [Em] and bursting over you,
There was [D] no reason to expect such [C] disaster.
_ [B] [Em] Panicking, you fuss for [D#] air, drowning, you know you [G] care for nothing,
And no one [C#] but yourself, [G] and would deny,
Even this hand which stretches [B] out [D] towards you to help.
_ But would I leave you, [C] in this moment of your trial?
Is [G] it my fault, that I'm [C] here to see you [B] crying?
[Am] These phantom figures all around you, should have told you,
You should [F] have found out by [G] now,
If you [C] hadn't gone and tried to do it all by yourself.
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[B] _ _ _ [E] Even now, we [D#m] are not lost,
If you look [D] out at the night, you'll see the [G] colours and the light,
These are days, [A#] people are not far away, at least in distance,
And it's only our [F] own dumb resistance that's [C] making us stay. _
_ _ _ [D] When the madness comes, let it [G] flood on down and over me sweetly,
[D] Let it drown the parts of me weak [G] and less than damn,
[A] _ [D] Let it take my life, let it take [G] my soul,
Let it [D] incompletely, [C] let it lead [G] through.
_ _ [A] There may [D] not be time for sorrow to [G] run,
In tandem [A] together, the [D] horizon calls, when it's parallel [G] lines.
_ [A] It [D] may not be right for you to have,
[G] To hold it one [A] way forever,
[D] Until [C] you feel [G] the time, [C] _ _ _ to feel [G] the love. _
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