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Van der Graaf Generator - 
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers 
 
I just wrote out the sax line 
for The Clot Thickens, 
play some power chords if you 
want, or feel free to complete it for me. 
 
(Eyewitness) 
 
Dm 
Still wait ing for  my 
sav-iour, storms tear me limb from limb 
C 
my fingers feel like seaweed. 
 
I'm  so  far  out I'm too far 
Dm 
in. 
Dm 
I Am a lonely man, my solitude is true, 
C 
my eyes have borne stark 
 
witness and now my nights 
   Dm 
 are numbered, too. 
 
 
C              Am 
I've seen the smiles on dead 
Hm 
hands, 
Em 
the stars shine, but they're 
C    Am 
not for me. 
 
Dm 
I prophesy disaster and then I 
count the cost... 
C 
I shine but, shining, dying, I 
        Dm 
know that I Am almost lost. 
Dm 
On the table lies blank paper 
and my tower is built on stone; 
C 
I only have blunt scissors, I 
        Dm 
only have the bluntest home. 
 
C 
I've been the witness and the 
Am     Hm 
seal of death 
Em 
lingers in the molten wax that 
C   Am 
is my head. 
 
Dm 
When you see the skeletons 
Bb 
of sailing-ship spars sinking 
low 
Ab 
You'll begin to wonder if the 
points of all the ancients myths 
G 
are solemnly directed straight 
Dm 
 at you... 
 
Dm 
No time now for contrition, the 
 time for that's long past, 
C 
the walls are thin as tissue 
                   Dm 
and if I talk I'll crack the glass. 
 
C                Am 
So I only think on how it might 
   Hm 
 have been, 
Em 
locked in silent monologue, in 
C    Am 
silent scream. 
 
Dm 
I Am much too tired to speak 
Bb 
and as the waves crash on the bleak 
Ab 
stones of the tower I start to freak 
G           Dm 
and find that I Am overcome.... 
 
 
(S.H.M.) 
 
G 
"Unreal, unreal" ghost 
helmsmen scream and fall 
 in through the sky, 
G 
not breaking through my seagull 
 shrieks - no breaks until I die. 
 
Am 
The spectres scratch on 
window-slits, 
Hm 
the hollowed faces and mindless grins 
C            Am/B 
are only intent on destroying 
       Am    Ab G F# 
what they've lost. 
 
G 
I crawl the wall till steepness 
 ends in the vertical fall; 
G 
my pain has sailed into the sea 
 -no joking hopes at dawn. 
 
Am 
White bone shine in the 
iron-jaw mask, 
Hm 
lost mastheads pierce the 
freezing dark 
C         Am/B 
and parallel my isolated 
Am 
tower... 
 G     F      Em 
no paraffin for the flame, 
 Dm      C    Hm       Am 
no harbour left to gain. 
 
 
(Presence of the night / Kosmos tours) 
  Am 
------------------------------ 
---1----------------------1--- 
---2----------------------2--- 
---2----------------------2--- 
-0-----------------2---------- 
---------------------3----1--- 
 
Fmaj7 (or Am/F or Am6 call it 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
------0--| 
--0h1----| 
what you want) 
 
Am [B G] 
'Alone, alone' the ghosts all 
Fmaj7 [E    F A] 
call, 
Am [B G] 
pinpoint me in the light. 
Fmaj7 [E    F A] 
Am [B G]          Fmaj7 [E 
The only life I feel at all 
F A] 
Am [B G] 
is the presence of the 
Fmaj7 [E    F A] 
night. 
 
Am [B G]    Fmaj7 [E   F A] 
repeated 
[E  F G] Am 
[E F G] Am 
 
N.C. 
Would you cry if I died? 
 
  G   Em Dm Em Dm 
-------6-5----6-5---| 
-------8-6----8-6---| 
-------7-7----7-7---| 
--5-----------------| 
--------------------| 
--------------------| 
 Am Am Em      Am Em 
------8---7-----8--7--| 
------10--8-----10-8--| 
------9---9-----9--9--| 
----------------------| 
--0-------------------| 
----------------------| 
 
G  Em Dm       Em     Dm 
Would you catch the final words 
 of mine? 
G  Em Dm     Em Dm 
Would you catch my words? 
 
Am Am Em         Am Em 
I know that there's no time, 
Am Am Em         Am Em 
I know that there's no rhyme, 
false signs find me. 
 
(You don't have to play it 
  Am          Em/B        Am/C 
----8---------7---------8---- 
------10--------8---------10- 
------------------9---------- 
----------------------------- 
--0-------------------------- 
------------7---------8------ 
this way, I just thought it would be fun.) 
  Em/D          Am/E        Em/F 
----7----------8--------7------| 
------8----------10-------8----| 
--------9-------------------9--| 
--0----------------------------| 
-------------7--------8--------| 
-------------------------------| 
 
  Am           Em           Am 
--8-----8-------7-----7------5--| 
----10----10------8-----8----5--| 
-------9-----8------9-----9--5--| 
-----------------------------7--| 
--0-----0--------------------0--| 
----------------0-----0---------| 
 
 
Am      Em        Am 
I don't want to hate, I just 
Em 
want to grow; 
Am      Em       Am 
why can't I let me live and be free? 
     Em             Am 
...but I die very slowly alone. 
 
Am    Em       Am     Em 
I know no more ways, I    Am so 
afraid, 
Am    Em        Am 
myself won't let me just be myself 
Em             Am 
and so I Am completely alone. 
 
Am 
The maelstrom of my memory 
Hm 
is a vampire and it feeds on 
me; 
C          C/B 
now, staggering madly, over the 
     Am 
 brink I fall. 
 
 
((Custard's) Last stand) 
 
C#  F#  F 
 
C#       F#       F 
Lighthouses might house the key 
Bb C Bb 
C#      F#       F    C 
but can I reach the door? 
C# Eb 
 
Bb Bbdim 
------------------------------- 
----------6----------------5--- 
--------7---7------------6---6- 
------8-------8--------5------- 
----8-----------8----7--------- 
--6----------------6----------- 
    A              Ddim C7 
----------------------------| 
-------------5--------6--5--| 
-----------6---6------4--3--| 
5--------7-------7----6--5--| 
--7----7-----------7--5--3--| 
-----5----------------------| 
 
C#     F#        F   Bb 
I want to walk on the sea 
C Bb 
C#       F#       F 
so that I may better find a 
   C C# Eb 
shore; 
Bb Bbdim       A 
but how can I ever keep my feet 
F 
 dry? 
E7 A    A   A G F 
I  scan the horizon, 
E7 A  A     A G   F Dm 
I  must keep my eyes on all 
Am/C      Hm 
parts of me. 
 
C#   F#        F    Bb 
Looking back on the years 
C Bb 
C#           F#    F 
it seems that I have lost my 
   C C# Eb 
way: 
Bb Bbdim 
Like a dog in the night I have 
     A 
run to a manger, 
       F      E 
now I  Am the stranger I stay 
in. 
C# D# E 
      Ah, well. 
 
C#        F#    F 
All of the grief I have seen 
Bb C Bb 
C#        F# 
leaves me chasing solitary 
F    C C# Eb 
peace; 
Bb Bbdim           A 
But I hold experience in my 
F 
head. 
E7 A   A   A G  F 
I'm too close to the light,. 
E7 A   A     A G  F 
I  don't think I see right, 
Dm    Am/C       Hm 
for I blind me. 
 
 
(The clot thickens) 
C           B     C 
Where is the God that guides my 
G 
 hand? 
C          B C 
How can the hands of others 
F 
reach me? 
C             B C 
When will I find what I grope 
G 
for? 
C    B   C F 
Who is going to teach me? 
C     Bb      C 
I Am me / me are we / we can't 
Bb 
see 
C Bb B 
any way out of here. 
C        Bb 
Crashing sea,  a trophied 
C 
history: 
Bb   C  B 
chance has lost my Guinevere... 
A A A  B A G# B A G# B A Eb 
 
C C B C G - C C B C F - C C B C 
G - C C B C F 
C Bb C Bb C Bb B 
C Bb C Bb C Bb B 
A A A  B A G# B A G# B A Eb 
 
I don't want to be one wave in 
the water 
but sea will drag me deep: 
one more haggard drowned man. 
 
I can see the lemmings coming, 
but I know I'm just a man. 
Do I join or  Do I founder? 
Which can is the best I may? 
 
 
(Land's end (Sineline) / We Go now) 
 
Eb  Bb  Gb Absus 
 
Eb        Bb 
Oceans drifting sideways, I am 
Gb          Ab 
pulled into the spell, 
[Ab Bb]    Bb [Bb C]         C 
I        feel you around  me, 
Ab7/C  Bb7 Eb 
I know you well. 
       Bb 
Stars slice horizons where the 
Gb          Ab 
lines stand much too stark; 
[Ab Bb]    Bb [Bb C]          C 
I feel I     Am drowning - 
Ab7/C    Bb7     Eb 
hands stretch in the dark. 
Bb   Gb   Ab [Ab Bb]   Bb 
  [Bb C] C 
 
C  Bb7/D C7  F 
 
F         C 
Camps of panoply and majesty, 
   Eb       Bb 
what is Freedom of Choice? 
[Bb C]  C 
Where     Do I stand in 
[C D]   D Bb7/D    C7 
the pageantry, whose is 
F 
my voice? 
              C 
It doesn't feel so very bad 
 Eb 
now, I think the end is the 
Bb 
start, 
[Bb C]  C [C D]            D 
   begin to feel very glad 
Bb7/D    C7      F 
now: All things are a part 
Bb7/D    C7     F 
All things are apart 
Bb7/D    C7     F 
All things are a part. 
 
 
Eyewitness played on the piano like this: 
Dm: 
e|-------5----------- 
B|---------8-686-5--- 
G|-----7-----------5- 
D|---7--------------- 
A|-5----------------- 
E|------------------- 
 
e|-------3----------- 
B|---------8-565-3--- 
G|-----5-----------3- 
D|---5--------------- 
A|-3----------------- 
E|-------------------