Man-erg chords by Van Der Graaf Generator

Chords with lyrics

from the album Pawn Hearts (1971).
Transcribed by Cory ([email protected]), August 2011

| FF | C majorC | DmDm | C majorC |

   FF       C majorC    DmDm      C majorC
The killer lives inside me:  yes, I can feel him move.
 FF          C majorC        DmDm     C majorC
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room,
   G+G      C majorC  DmDm  E minorEm DmDm  C majorC    G+G
but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine;
C majorC   DmDm  E minorEm DmDm  C majorC  A minorAm       G+G
he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
     FF      C majorC   DmDm   C majorC
Yes the killer lives

FF       C majorC   DmDm   C majorC
Angels live inside me: I can feel them smile...
   FF          C majorC      DmDm     C majorC
Their presence strokes and soothes the tempest in my mind
G+G       C majorC  DmDm  E minorEm DmDm   C majorC  Gsus4Gsus4  G+G
and their love can heal the wounds that I have wrought
C majorC  DmDm  E minorEm DmDm C majorC A minorAm
They watch me as I go to fall
G+G
-well, I know I shall be caught,
     FF       C majorC  DmDm   C majorC
while the angels live.

 AdimAdim
|-----------|-------------|
|-----------|-------------|
|-5-5-5-5-5-|-------------|
|-4-4-4-4-4-|-------------|
|-----------|-------------|
|-5-5-5-5-5-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|

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

Organ plays these chords over the riff after the vocals: (3m41s)
 C minorCm              BdimBdim
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-| |-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|
 C minorCm              BdimBdim
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-| |-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4-8-|
 BbmBbm             F minorFm
|-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 majorBb Ao AbAb
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-6-8-5-8-4---|
|-7-7-7-7-7-|-6---4-7-4---|
|-8-8-8-8-8-|-7---5-8-5---|
|-7-7-7-7-7-|-8---4-7-6---|
|-----------|-8-------6---|
|-----------|-6-------4---|

 Fm9Fm9           Dm#11
|----3-----3-1-----1----|----4------4-1-----1----|
|----1-----1-1-----1----|----3------3-1-----1----|
|----1-----1-1-----1----|----5------5-1-----1----| x2
|-3------3-------3---3--|-0-------0-------0---0--|
|-----------------------|------------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------------|

 FMaj9Fmaj9          Dm11Dm11
|----3-----3-1-----1----|----3------3-1-----1----|
|----1-----1-1-----1----|----3------3-3-----3----|
|----2-----2-2-----2----|----2------2-2-----2----|
|-3------3-------3---3--|-0-------0-------0---0--|
|-----------------------|------------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------------|

FMaj9Fmaj9                 Dm11Dm11
But stalking in my cloisters hang the acolytes of gloom
FMaj9Fmaj9                   Dm11Dm11
and Death's Head throws his cloak into the corner of my room

Bb majorBb+ Bb majorBb Bbo  FF maj9         Dm11Dm11
|-2--1--0--|-1--3-----3-1-----1----|----3------3-1-----1----|
|-3--3--2--|-1--1-----1-1-----1----|----3------3-3-----3----|
|-3--3--0--|-2--2-----2-2-----2----|----2------2-2-----2----|
|----------|-3------3-------3---3--|-0-------0-------0---0--|
|-1--1--1--|-----------------------|------------------------|
|----------|-----------------------|------------------------|
and I am doomed...
FMaj9Fmaj9 Dm11Dm11

FMaj9Fmaj9                Dm11Dm11
But laughing in my courtyard play the pranksters of my youth
FMaj9Fmaj9               Dm11Dm11
and solemn, waiting Old Man in the gables of the roof:
Bb majorBb+ Bb majorBb  Bbo FMaj9Fmaj9
he tells me  truth...

| FMaj9Fmaj9 | Dm11Dm11     | FMaj9Fmaj9     | Dm11Dm11  |
| FMaj9Fmaj9 | Dm11Dm11     | Bb majorBb Bb+ Bb majorBb Bbo | FMaj9Fmaj9 |
| Dm11Dm11  | A minorAm      | G minorGm      | Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD |
| Csus4Csus4 C majorC | Bb majorBb      | A7sus4A7sus4 A7A7   | Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD |
| Csus4Csus4 C majorC | Bb majorBb Bb+ Bb majorBb Bbo | FF       |

| C majorC D MajorD  | D MajorD       | Eb MajorEb FF     | FF   |
| C majorC D MajorD  | D MajorD       | Eb MajorEb F minorFm Fm F minorFm A augmentedA A augmentedA G+G | FFF AbAbAb | (4/4, 4/4, 5/4, 2/4)
| Bb7Bb7  | FF

FF        C majorC    DmDm           C majorC
And I too, live inside me and very often don't know who I am:
FF        C majorC       DmDm        C majorC
I know I'm not a hero, well, I hope that I'm not damned.
  G+G      C majorC  DmDm E minorEm  DmDm C majorC  Gsus4Gsus4  G+G
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
C majorC DmDm E minorEm  DmDm C majorC   A minorAm    G+G
Dictators, saviours, refugees in war and peace
      FF       C majorC  DmDm C majorC
as long as Man lives...

  G+G      C majorC  DmDm E minorEm  DmDm C majorC  Gsus4Gsus4  G+G
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
C majorC DmDm E minorEm  DmDm C majorC   A minorAm     G+G
Dictators, saviours, refugees

C majorC  DmDm E minorEm  DmDm  C majorC Gsus4Gsus4 G+G
C majorC  DmDm E minorEm  DmDm  C majorC A minorAm  G+G <- at this point the diminished riff comes back

C majorC  DmDm E minorEm  DmDm  C majorC G+G
C majorC  DmDm E minorEm  DmDm  C majorC A minorAm

  AdimAdim    AbAb   A augmentedA  A augmentedA  G minorGm FF F FF
|--------------4-4-4--5----5----3--1-1-1-|
|--------------4-4-4--5----5----3--1-1-1-|
|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5--6----6----3--2-2-2-|
|--4-4-4-4-4---6-6-6--7----7----5--3-3-3-|
|--------------6-6-6--7----7----5--3-3-3-|
|--5-5-5-5-5---4-4-4--5----5----3--1-1-1-|

| AbAb AbAb AbAb Bb majorBb Bb AbAb | F#F#  F#F#  E MajorE |
| D MajorD  D MajorD  D MajorD  FF FF FF | EbmEbm     |
| EbmEbm Ebm EbmEbm DmDm Dm DmDm | C# minorC#m C minorCm  BB |
| Bb majorBb Bb majorBb Bb majorBb A augmentedA A augmentedA A augmentedA | AbAb  G+G  F#F# |