Childlike Faith In Childhoods End - Van Der Graaf Generator Chords
Chords: Graaf, Faith, End, C, D, B, B], F#dim, G#dim, A
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Van der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
from the album Still Life (1976).
Transcribed by Cory (coryp23@gmail.com), 2010
[G C D C B D C B] F#dim G#dim
Existence is a stage on which we pass,
[G# A B C B A B] D
a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart;
D G F
it's hopeless, I know, but onward I must go
F E
and try to make a start
n.C.
at seeing something more
E D
than day to day survival, chased by final death.
G F
if I believed this the sum of the life to which we've come,
Em
I wouldn't waste my breath.
Am
Somehow, there must be more.
Bm G
C Csus C E
There was a time when more was felt than known
D
but now, entrenched inside my sett,
G F
in light more mundane, thought rattles round my brain:
Em
we live, we die...and yet?
Riff 1:
D C D C D C E C D C A
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--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---|
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Riff 1
In the beginning there was order and destiny
but now that path has reached the border and on our knees
is no way to face the future, whatever it be.
Am G F
Though the forces which hold us in place
Am G F
last through eons in unruffled grace
F E
we, too, wear the face of creation.
Riff 1
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