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Pioneers over c

Van der Graaf Generator
ORGAN INTRO: { E g a g a b e g a } x2
 
(We) Left the earth in 1983(nineteen eighty-three), fingers groping for the
galaxies,
 
reddened eyes stared up into the void,
 
a thousand stars to be explo-ited.
 
Somebody help me, I-I'm fa - alling,
 
{Bdedef#bde}x2
somebody help me, I-I'm fa - alling down
 
into sky, into earth, into sky, into earth.
 
 
BASS RIFF: Its main body is { e b d a b a e g a g e }, and the
following section is based on it:
 
It is so dark around, no life, no hope, no sound,
 
e b d a b a b a Dm* (played by acoustic guitar)
no chance of seeing home again.
 
The universe is on fire, exploding without flame.
 
 
 
 
We are the lost ones; we are the pioneers; we are the lost
ones
 
A A A G No Chords
We are the ones they are going to build a statue for
 
ten centuries ago or were going to fifteen forward ..... (organ comes back here
in E key)
 
 
 
One last brief whisper in our loved ones' ears
 
to reassure them and to pierce the fear
 
standing at controls then still unknown
 
we told the world we were about to go
 
Somebody help me I-I'm mi - issing,
 
{Bdedef#bde}x2
somebody help me I-I'm mi - issing now
 
touch with my mind, I have no frame,
 
touch with my mind, I have no frame.
 
 
BASS RIFF: The same one - main body is { e b d a b a e g a g e },
and the following section is based on it:
 
Well now where is the time and who the hell am I,
 
e b d a b a b a Dm* (played by acoustic guitar)
here floating in an aimless way?
 
 
No-one knows where we are,
 
Dm g c# fl c f e a b a# g f a# e (d)
(no) they can't feel us precisely ..
 
 
BRIDGE:x2{Dsus4Dsus4Csus4Csus4}x4
 
The - re is no fear here.
 
How (can) could such a thing exi - ist
 
in (a) this place where livi - ing and knowi - ing
 
and bei - ing have never been heard of?
 
have never been heard of
 
 
SAX SOLO: The { Dsus4 Dsus4 Csus4 Csus4 } continues during the sax solo and
soon exits, leaving sax alone.
 
 
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:
The basic passage here played by piano is: a b e d g a d f g c e f
b a
The basic passage here played by bass is: b d e a b
e
 
 
Doomed to vanish in the flickering light,
 
disappearing to a darker night,
 
doomed to vanish in a living death, living anti-matter, anti-breath
Somebody help me I-I'm lo-osing,
 
{Bdedef#bde}x2
somebody help me, I-I'm lo-osing now
 
people around, there's no-one to touch,
 
no people around, no-one to touch.
 
 
BASS RIFF: The same one - main body is { e b d a b a e g a g e },
and the following section is based on it:
 
 
I am now quite alone, part of a vacant time-zone,
 
e b d a b a b a Dm* (played by acoustic guitar)
(here) floating in the vo - oid,
 
only dimly aware of existence,
 
a dimly existing awareness,
 
 
 
I am the lost one, I am the one you fear,
 
I am the lost one,
 
No Chords
I am the one who crossed through space,
or stayed where I was,
or didn't exist in the first place .....