A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Chords - Van der Graaf Generator

Dm Still wait ing for my sav-iour, storms tear me limb from limb C Dm my fingers feel like seaweed. I'm so far out I'm too far in. Dm I am a lonely man, my solitude is true, C Dm my eyes have borne stark witness and now my nights are numbered, too. C Am Bm I've seen the smiles on dead hands, Em C Am the stars shine, but they're not for me. Dm I prophesy disaster and then I count the cost... C Dm I shine but, shining, dying, I know that I am almost lost. Dm On the table lies blank paper and my tower is built on stone; C Dm I only have blunt scissors, I only have the bluntest home. C Am Bm I've been the witness and the seal of death Em C Am lingers in the molten wax that is my head. Dm When you see the skeletons Bb of sailing-ship spars sinking low Ab You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths G Dm are solemnly directed straight at you... Dm No time now for contrition, the time for that's long past, C Dm the walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass. C Am Bm So I only think on how it might have been, Em C Am locked in silent monologue, in silent scream. Dm I am much too tired to speak Bb and as the waves crash on the bleak Ab stones of the tower I start to freak G Dm and find that I am overcome.... (S.H.M.) G "Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky, G not breaking through my seagull shrieks - no breaks until I die. Am The spectres scratch on window-slits, Bm the hollowed faces and mindless grins C Am/B Am Ab G F# are only intent on destroying what they've lost. G I crawl the wall till steepness ends in the vertical fall; G my pain has sailed into the sea -no joking hopes at dawn. Am White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask, Bm lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark C Am/B Am and parallel my isolated tower... G F Em no paraffin for the flame, Dm C Bm Am no harbour left to gain. (Presence of the night / Kosmos tours) Am Fmaj7 (or Am/F or Am6 call it what you want)

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Am B G Fmaj7 E F A 'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call, Am B G Fmaj7 E F A pinpoint me in the light. Am B G Fmaj7 E F A The only life I feel at all Am B G Fmaj7 E F A is the presence of the night. Am B G Fmaj7 E F A repeated E F G Am E F G Am n.C Would you cry if I died? G Em Dm Em Dm Am Am Em Am Em

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G Em Dm Em Dm Would you catch the final words of mine? G Em Dm Em Dm Would you catch my words? Am Am Em Am Em I know that there's no time, Am Am Em Am Em I know that there's no rhyme, false signs find me. (You don't have to play it this way, I just thought it would be fun.) Am Em/B Am/C Em/D Am/E Em/F

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Am Em Am Em I don't want to hate, I just want to grow; Am Em Am why can't I let me live and be free? Em Am ...but I die very slowly alone. Am Em Am Em I know no more ways, I am so afraid, Am Em Am myself won't let me just be myself Em Am and so I am completely alone. Am The maelstrom of my memory Bm is a vampire and it feeds on me; C C/B Am now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall. ((Custard's) Last stand) C# F# F C# F# F Bb C Bb Lighthouses might house the key C# F# F C C# Eb but can I reach the door? Bb Bbdim A Ddim C7

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C# F# F Bb C Bb I want to walk on the sea C# F# F C C# Eb so that I may better find a shore; Bb Bbdim A F but how can I ever keep my feet dry? E7 A A A G F I scan the horizon, E7 A A A G F Dm Am/C Bm I must keep my eyes on all parts of me. C# F# F Bb C Bb Looking back on the years C# F# F C C# Eb it seems that I have lost my way: Bb Bbdim A Like a dog in the night I have run to a manger, F E now I am the stranger I stay in. C# D# E Ah, well. C# F# F Bb C Bb All of the grief I have seen C# F# F C C# Eb leaves me chasing solitary peace; Bb Bbdim A F But I hold experience in my head. E7 A A A G F I'm too close to the light,. E7 A A A G F I don't think I see right, Dm Am/C Bm for I blind me. (The clot thickens) C B C G Where is the God that guides my hand? C B C F How can the hands of others reach me? C B C G When will I find what I grope for? C B C F Who is going to teach me? C Bb C Bb I am me / me are we / we can't see C Bb B any way out of here. C Bb C Crashing sea, a trophied history: Bb C B chance has lost my Guinevere... A A A B A G# B A G# B A Eb C C B C G - C C B C F - C C B C G - C C B C F C Bb C Bb C Bb B C Bb C Bb C Bb B A A A B A G# B A G# B A Eb I don't want to be one wave in the water but sea will drag me deep: one more haggard drowned man. I can see the lemmings coming, but I know I'm just a man. Do I join or do I founder? Which can is the best I may? (Land's end (Sineline) / We go now) Eb Bb Gb Absus Eb Bb Gb Ab Oceans drifting sideways, I am pulled into the spell, Ab Bb Bb Bb C C Ab7/C Bb7 Eb I feel you around me, I know you well. Bb Gb Ab Stars slice horizons where the lines stand much too stark; Ab Bb Bb Bb C C Ab7/C Bb7 Eb I feel I am drowning - hands stretch in the dark. Bb Gb Ab Ab Bb Bb Bb C C C Bb7/D C7 F F C Eb Bb Camps of panoply and majesty, what is Freedom of Choice? Bb C C C D D Bb7/D C7 F Where do I stand in the pageantry, whose is my voice? C Eb Bb It doesn't feel so very bad now, I think the end is the start, Bb C C C D D Bb7/D C7 F begin to feel very glad now: All things are a part Bb7/D C7 F All things are apart Bb7/D C7 F All things are a part.