Van der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith in Childhood's EndG C D C B D C BF#dim AbdimExistence is a stage on which we pass,Ab A B C B A BDa sleepwalk trick for mind and heart;D G Fit's hopeless, I know, but onward I must goF Eand try to make a startn.C.at seeing something moreE Dthan day to day survival, chased by final death.G Fif I believed this the sum of the life to which we've come,EmI wouldn't waste my breath.AmSomehow, there must be more.Bm GC Csus4 C EThere was a time when more was felt than knownDbut now, entrenched inside my sett,G Fin light more mundane, thought rattles round my brain:Emwe live, we die...and yet?Riff 1:D C D C D C E C D C A--------------------------------| --------------------------------| --7-5---7-5---7-5-9--5--7-5-2---| --7-5---7-5---7-5-9--5--7-5-2---| --5-3---5-3---5-3-7--3--5-3-0---| --------------------------------|Riff 1In the beginning there was order and destinybut now that path has reached the border and on our kneesis no way to face the future, whatever it be.Am G FThough the forces which hold us in placeAm G Flast through eons in unruffled graceF Ewe, too, wear the face of creation.Riff 1As anti-matter sucks and pulses periodicallythe bud unfolds, the bloom is dead, all space is living history.It seems as though time must betray us yet we're aliveand though I see no God to save us, yet we surviveDm A7through the centuries of progressDm Bbwhich don't get us very far.A7 Dm A7All illusion! All is bogus...Dm Bb Gm Awe don't yet know what we are.Riff 1Laughing, hoping, praying, joking, Son of Man,with lowered eyes but lifting hearts, we're grains of sandand though, in time, the sea may claim us for its ownwe are the rocks which root the future - on us it grows!Dm A7We might not be there to share itDm Bb A7 Dm A7if eternity's a jest but I think that I can bear itDm Bb Gm Aif the next life is the best.(riff 1 with solo's)4:17| C# | F# | C# | F# || F | Bb | C | FG Am G FEven if there is a heaven when we die,Am G Fendless bliss would be as meaningless as the lieAm Gthat always comes as answer to the questionF E7"Why do we see through the eyes of creation?"D E D CBm D F#sus F#m Bsus4 Asus4Bm F#mAdrift without a course,D EBsus4 Bmit's very lonely here,Asus4our only conjectureA Bm F#mwhat lies behind the dark.F#m EmStill, I find I can cling to a lifeline,Bm Esus4 Emthink of a lifetime which means more than my own one,Esus4 Em Bm7 Bmdreams of a grander thing than we are.C# DF#m EmTime and Space hang heavy on my shoulders...G ABm E7sus4when all life is over who can sayEm Bsus4 B Eno mutated force shall remain?E B7 F#m B7Though the towers of the cityE B7 F#m B7are denied to we men of clayE B7 F#m B7 F#m Ab7still we know we shall scale the heights some day.Ab7 (E)Frightened in the silence, frightened, butA E/G# E Bthinking ve - ry hard,E B7 F#m B7 Elet us make computations of the stars.E B EInstrumental sectionRiff 1Older, wiser, sadder, blinder, watch us run:faster, longer, harder, stronger, now it comes...colour blisters, image splinters gravitatetowards the centre, in final splendour disintegrate.Dm A7The universe now beckonsDm Bband Man, too, must take His place;A7 Dm A7just a few last fleeting secondsDm Bb Gm Ato wander in the waste,Am G Fand the children who were ourselves move on,Am G Freincarnation stills its now perfected song,Am G F Bsus4 Band at last we are free of the bonds of creation.E B E BAll the jokers and gaolers, all the junkies and slavers too,E B Ab7all the throng who have danced a merry tune...Ab7 E A E/G# E Bhuman we can all be, but Humanity we must rise above,E B Ein the name of all faith and hope and love.E B E BThere's a time for all pilgrims, and a time for the fakers too,E B Ab7there's a time when we all will stand alone and nude,Ab7 E A E/G# E Bnaked to the galaxies...naked, but clothed in the overview:E B Eas we reach Childhood's End we start anew.E BAnd though dark is the highway,E Band the peak's distance breaks my heart,E B Ab7for I never shall see it, still I play my part,Ebelieving that what waits for usA E/G# E Bis the cosmos compared to the dust of the past.E B EIn the death of mere Humans Life shall start!
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