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Man-erg

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Van der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg
from the album Pawn Hearts (1971).
Transcribed by Cory ([email protected]), August 2011

|  F  |  C  |  Dm  |  C  |

     F             C        Dm           C
The killer lives inside me:   yes, I can feel him move.
  F                    C               Dm         C
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room,
     G            C    Dm   Em  Dm    C       G
but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine;
C     Dm    Em Dm    C   Am             G
he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
         F            C     Dm     C
Yes the killer lives

F             C      Dm      C
Angels live inside me: I can feel them smile...
      F                    C            Dm          C
Their presence strokes and soothes the tempest in my mind
G              C   Dm   Em  Dm     C    Gsus   G
and their love can heal the wounds that I have wrought
C    Dm    Em Dm C Am
They watch me as I go to fall
G
-well, I know I shall be caught,
          F             C    Dm     C
while the angels live.

  Adim
|-5-5-5-5-5-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|

How can I be free?
How can I get help?
Am I really me?
Am I someone else?

Organ plays these chords over the riff after the vocals: (3m41s)
 Cm                           Bdim
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-| |-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|
 Cm                           Bdim
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-| |-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|
 Bbm                          Fm
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-| |-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|

repeat riff, slowing down
Maybe something like this on the last one:             
  Ao              Bb  Ao  Ab

 Fm9                      Dm#11

 Fmaj9                    Dm11

Fmaj9                                 Dm11
But stalking in my cloisters hang the acolytes of gloom
Fmaj9                                     Dm11
and Death's Head throws his cloak into the corner of my room

Bb+ Bb Bbo   F  maj9                 Dm11
and I  am  doomed...
Fmaj9 Dm11

Fmaj9                                Dm11
But laughing in my courtyard play the pranksters of my youth
Fmaj9                             Dm11
and solemn, waiting Old Man in the gables of the roof:
Bb+ Bb    Bbo  Fmaj9   
he  tells me   truth...

| Fmaj9  | Dm11          | Fmaj9         | Dm11   |
| Fmaj9  | Dm11          | Bb Bb+ Bb Bbo | Fmaj9  | 
| Dm11   | Am            | Gm            | Dsus D |
| Csus C | Bb            | A7sus A7      | Dsus D |
| Csus C | Bb Bb+ Bb Bbo | F             |

| C D    | D             | Eb F          | F      |
| C D    | D             | Eb Fm Fm Fm A  A  G  | FFF AbAbAb |  (4/4, 4/4, 5/4, 2/4) 
| Bb7    | F   

F               C        Dm                     C
And I too, live inside me and very often don't know who I am:
F               C              Dm                C
I know I'm not a hero, well, I hope that I'm not damned.
    G           C   Dm Em    Dm C    Gsus    G     
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
C  Dm Em   Dm C      Am        G
Dictators, saviours, refugees in war and peace
           F              C   Dm  C
as long as Man lives...

    G           C   Dm Em    Dm C    Gsus    G         
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
C  Dm Em   Dm C      Am         G 
Dictators, saviours, refugees 

C   Dm  Em   Dm   C  Gsus  G 
C   Dm  Em   Dm   C  Am    G  <- at this point the diminished riff comes back

C   Dm  Em   Dm   C  G 
C   Dm  Em   Dm   C  Am

   Adim        Ab     A    A    Gm F F F

| Ab  Ab  Ab  Bb Bb Ab | Gb   Gb   E  | 
| D   D   D   F  F  F  | Ebm          |
| Ebm Ebm Ebm Dm Dm Dm | C#m  Cm   B  |
| Bb  Bb  Bb  A  A  A  | Ab   G    F# |
| F

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