Biography:
1. Born in the UK in the '70s as The Lens, IQ remained, with Marillion, one of the very few progressive rock artists in the '80s. The style of their earlier material drew constant comparisons to that of groups like Genesis, but the band has always rejected the 'neo-progressive' tag bestowed upon them.
Their 1993 offering Ever was marked by the return of original singer, Peter Nicholls, and was one of the first of the progressive revival of the '90s.
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This is designed to give a flavour of the songs as played on a guitar only.
Time signature where tricksy is noted
note E chord is best played as a progression of D on the 4th fret as:
e 0
B 5
G 4
D x
A x
E x
Intro: 4 bars of A
A C
Long before the living past had ripped it all apart
A Fmaj7
Something still remained until It flashed back to the start
A C
Where it stands, nobody saw behind the blackest eyes
A Fmaj7 Em7
Show them how you're stronger now it pays to advertise wisely
D E) C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
Day after day with you in my head I said some things I shouldn't have said
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
For reasons unknown that I now forget I gave you no love, which I now regret
Asus --------- Asus (let ring)
A C
What I'd give to hear again those everlasting songs
A Fmaj7
Why did all the accidents contrive to fall at once?
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
Only day after day with you in my thoughts I never knew time was so short
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
For once in my life I wasn't alone with blood on my hands how could I have known?
Am -------------- Dm
Am Dm
Used to be the great white hope once I walked on water
Am Dm
Now I barely stay afloat balance out of order
Ab Gm Fm Bb
With every sympathy worn away who can I return to now?
Am Dm
For the time that I have left I scan that cold horizon
Am Dm
Searching for a kindred soul, someone to rely upon
Ab Gm Fm Bb
We disconnected and Heaven sent sheltered in dead air, hidden everywhere
D A G D A
The sky lights up above America
D A G D A
The world is lost but loves America
Bm G Bm A
When the eyes of children see the ones left standing
Bm A G A
And the rest begin to finally understand
D A G D A
The hand of God defends America
D A G D A
And who would not defend America?
Bm Bm A
We've got light on our side we're in pole position
Bm A G A D
So praise the Lord and raise the ammunition high
D ---- C ---- Bb --- A
C G D
Raise it high
D ---- C ---- Bb --- A ---- Eb ---- E
Hide where you can
We will shoot you where you stand
(Section in 7/4 time)
E
I've walked a million miles upon an open road
Bm
And once in every while without the will to carry on
A Bm C
Hours held me too long in one location
E
An old familiar tale, a glory to behold
Bm
A work of genius, the greatest story ever sold
A Bm C A
As you sign on the line, as you do what you're told
A G A A-A B-B C-C B-B A-A (played as A progression)
All you sell is your soul
E
I've been this way before I've seen it many times
Bm
Collision on the track the fiction turning into fact
A Bm C A
No-one dares to look back, best you start to prepare
A G A G A C#m
For the harvest ahead, all you lose is yourself
C#m -- B -- A -- G#m
C#m B A G#m
I'm brought to life with a series of shocks
C#m F#m A G#m
I realise that you are gone from my life
C#m B A G#m
And still I cling to the fear of the dark
C#m F#m A G#m
Don't follow them for they don't care how you are
A B G#m A
And I'm finding a way of being
A B G#m C#m
Accepting life all alone
A B G#m A
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A B G#m C#m
A way to live on my own
C#m B A G#m
It wasn't hard to believe in the lie
C#m F#m A G#m
Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault
C#m B A G#m
Why does the world continue to spin
C#m F#m A G#m
While everything around me grinds to a halt?
A B G#m A
And I'm finding a way of being
A B G#m C#m
Accepting life all alone
A B G#m A
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A B G#m C#m
A way to live on my own
C#m -- B -- A -- G#m
2
C#m -- B -- A – F#
(Instrumental in alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8 then 5/4 time)
C#m Eb C#m Eb
B C#m B C#m (x2)
A F# Eb
C#m Eb C#m Eb
B C#m B C#m
A F# Eb C#m
(Into crescendo)
F# E-E B-B (x3)
F# C#m F# B C#m F# F# F#
Mine is a real fine line I get harder the higher I climb
F# C#m F# B C#m F#
Shine like a star so bright anybody can see anytime
F# G#m F# B
No-one will want to follow, this will be gone tomorrow
F# E F#
We enter an age of permanent doubt
B F#
Where we communicate without words
E B F# E B F# E F#
But I must be heard so I cut through the smoke and the noise
F# C#m F# B C#m F
Mine is a real fine line it imagines it's one of a kind
F# G#m F# B
Goodbye to all expression farewell to superstition
F# E F#
We enter an age of permanent doubt
B F#
Where we communicate without words
C#m F# B E F# E F#
And the noise expands as it covers the lie of the land
F# E B F# E B E
Shine like a star so bright ‘till we shut out the light, put out the fire
F# E F# G F#
Cut through the smoke and the noise
F# G F#
Lately I've been talking to myself
E F# G F# G
Been remembering and doing little else
F# G F#
The road ahead is anything but clear
E F# G F# G
Last time around, where did we go from here?
G F# G A Bb E E E E
A(x8 steady march)
A x 4 D Bb G A
A x 4 Bb C G A
E x4 D x2 Ex4
Ex4 D E A E D A
A Dm Bb C G
What about some golden hours? I was alive, certainly you were wrong
A Dm Bb C G
Anyone can be persuaded given the time, we all scream alone
A Dm Bb C G
What about this good for nothing season again? Everything's come and gone
A Dm Bb C G
And I can't believe that I'm not watching you I'm in a sorry state
E Dm
Return to ordinary thoughts now If you can
E Dm E C A
The words I hardly understand gather round me while I wait
3
A Dm Bb C G
What about those colder cowards arming against lost intelligence?
A Dm Bb C G
Anyone who saw me crawling there would have known that I was normal once
E Dm E Dm
Return to ordinary thoughts too young to take the stand
E Dm
But old enough to kill anyone
HA!
(6/4 Time)
Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am
Am F
In the days when love divided up the looks
F# G
No drastic means were used like rod and hooks
Em F
To enhance what nature's sculptor had designed
D Eb
No augmentation needed to refine
Am F
In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice
F# G
For plastic is the currency of choice
Em F
And beauty born is strictly for the birds
D Eb
Your cash is fine but credit is preferred
Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am
Repeat chords above
Am Dm
When I held myself aloft I walked across the water
Am Am
Now I barely cut across, lives are getting shorter
G# Gm F Bb
And they open up another door to a border far below
Am Dm
For the time that I'm allowed, there's a new horizon
Am Dm
But a soul as cold as ice is nothing to rely upon
G# Gm F Bb F Bb
If I'm hanging onto angels' wings then I'm safer in the air
Cdim Bbdim
Do I still qualify, suspended from on high?
Bb5 D
No other sanctuary have I
D Dsus4 D A G D G
D Dsus4 D A G D A
Bm G Bm A
And when the eyes of children see past the ones left standing
Bm G D G D
And the time has surely come to understand who we are
D Dsus4 D A G D G
D Dsus4 D A G D A
Bm G Bm A
Slowly the fires are burning bearing their silent witness
Bm G D G A D
And the living past returns to reap the Harvest of Souls
D Dsus4 D A G D G (to fade)
Time signature where tricksy is noted
note E chord is best played as a progression of D on the 4th fret as:
e 0
B 5
G 4
D x
A x
E x
Intro: 4 bars of A
A C
Long before the living past had ripped it all apart
A Fmaj7
Something still remained until It flashed back to the start
A C
Where it stands, nobody saw behind the blackest eyes
A Fmaj7 Em7
Show them how you're stronger now it pays to advertise wisely
D E) C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
Day after day with you in my head I said some things I shouldn't have said
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
For reasons unknown that I now forget I gave you no love, which I now regret
Asus --------- Asus (let ring)
A C
What I'd give to hear again those everlasting songs
A Fmaj7
Why did all the accidents contrive to fall at once?
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
Only day after day with you in my thoughts I never knew time was so short
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
For once in my life I wasn't alone with blood on my hands how could I have known?
Am -------------- Dm
Am Dm
Used to be the great white hope once I walked on water
Am Dm
Now I barely stay afloat balance out of order
Ab Gm Fm Bb
With every sympathy worn away who can I return to now?
Am Dm
For the time that I have left I scan that cold horizon
Am Dm
Searching for a kindred soul, someone to rely upon
Ab Gm Fm Bb
We disconnected and Heaven sent sheltered in dead air, hidden everywhere
D A G D A
The sky lights up above America
D A G D A
The world is lost but loves America
Bm G Bm A
When the eyes of children see the ones left standing
Bm A G A
And the rest begin to finally understand
D A G D A
The hand of God defends America
D A G D A
And who would not defend America?
Bm Bm A
We've got light on our side we're in pole position
Bm A G A D
So praise the Lord and raise the ammunition high
D ---- C ---- Bb --- A
C G D
Raise it high
D ---- C ---- Bb --- A ---- Eb ---- E
Hide where you can
We will shoot you where you stand
(Section in 7/4 time)
E
I've walked a million miles upon an open road
Bm
And once in every while without the will to carry on
A Bm C
Hours held me too long in one location
E
An old familiar tale, a glory to behold
Bm
A work of genius, the greatest story ever sold
A Bm C A
As you sign on the line, as you do what you're told
A G A A-A B-B C-C B-B A-A (played as A progression)
All you sell is your soul
E
I've been this way before I've seen it many times
Bm
Collision on the track the fiction turning into fact
A Bm C A
No-one dares to look back, best you start to prepare
A G A G A C#m
For the harvest ahead, all you lose is yourself
C#m -- B -- A -- G#m
C#m B A G#m
I'm brought to life with a series of shocks
C#m F#m A G#m
I realise that you are gone from my life
C#m B A G#m
And still I cling to the fear of the dark
C#m F#m A G#m
Don't follow them for they don't care how you are
A B G#m A
And I'm finding a way of being
A B G#m C#m
Accepting life all alone
A B G#m A
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A B G#m C#m
A way to live on my own
C#m B A G#m
It wasn't hard to believe in the lie
C#m F#m A G#m
Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault
C#m B A G#m
Why does the world continue to spin
C#m F#m A G#m
While everything around me grinds to a halt?
A B G#m A
And I'm finding a way of being
A B G#m C#m
Accepting life all alone
A B G#m A
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A B G#m C#m
A way to live on my own
C#m -- B -- A -- G#m
2
C#m -- B -- A – F#
(Instrumental in alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8 then 5/4 time)
C#m Eb C#m Eb
B C#m B C#m (x2)
A F# Eb
C#m Eb C#m Eb
B C#m B C#m
A F# Eb C#m
(Into crescendo)
F# E-E B-B (x3)
F# C#m F# B C#m F# F# F#
Mine is a real fine line I get harder the higher I climb
F# C#m F# B C#m F#
Shine like a star so bright anybody can see anytime
F# G#m F# B
No-one will want to follow, this will be gone tomorrow
F# E F#
We enter an age of permanent doubt
B F#
Where we communicate without words
E B F# E B F# E F#
But I must be heard so I cut through the smoke and the noise
F# C#m F# B C#m F
Mine is a real fine line it imagines it's one of a kind
F# G#m F# B
Goodbye to all expression farewell to superstition
F# E F#
We enter an age of permanent doubt
B F#
Where we communicate without words
C#m F# B E F# E F#
And the noise expands as it covers the lie of the land
F# E B F# E B E
Shine like a star so bright ‘till we shut out the light, put out the fire
F# E F# G F#
Cut through the smoke and the noise
F# G F#
Lately I've been talking to myself
E F# G F# G
Been remembering and doing little else
F# G F#
The road ahead is anything but clear
E F# G F# G
Last time around, where did we go from here?
G F# G A Bb E E E E
A(x8 steady march)
A x 4 D Bb G A
A x 4 Bb C G A
E x4 D x2 Ex4
Ex4 D E A E D A
A Dm Bb C G
What about some golden hours? I was alive, certainly you were wrong
A Dm Bb C G
Anyone can be persuaded given the time, we all scream alone
A Dm Bb C G
What about this good for nothing season again? Everything's come and gone
A Dm Bb C G
And I can't believe that I'm not watching you I'm in a sorry state
E Dm
Return to ordinary thoughts now If you can
E Dm E C A
The words I hardly understand gather round me while I wait
3
A Dm Bb C G
What about those colder cowards arming against lost intelligence?
A Dm Bb C G
Anyone who saw me crawling there would have known that I was normal once
E Dm E Dm
Return to ordinary thoughts too young to take the stand
E Dm
But old enough to kill anyone
HA!
(6/4 Time)
Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am
Am F
In the days when love divided up the looks
F# G
No drastic means were used like rod and hooks
Em F
To enhance what nature's sculptor had designed
D Eb
No augmentation needed to refine
Am F
In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice
F# G
For plastic is the currency of choice
Em F
And beauty born is strictly for the birds
D Eb
Your cash is fine but credit is preferred
Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am
Repeat chords above
Am Dm
When I held myself aloft I walked across the water
Am Am
Now I barely cut across, lives are getting shorter
G# Gm F Bb
And they open up another door to a border far below
Am Dm
For the time that I'm allowed, there's a new horizon
Am Dm
But a soul as cold as ice is nothing to rely upon
G# Gm F Bb F Bb
If I'm hanging onto angels' wings then I'm safer in the air
Cdim Bbdim
Do I still qualify, suspended from on high?
Bb5 D
No other sanctuary have I
D Dsus4 D A G D G
D Dsus4 D A G D A
Bm G Bm A
And when the eyes of children see past the ones left standing
Bm G D G D
And the time has surely come to understand who we are
D Dsus4 D A G D G
D Dsus4 D A G D A
Bm G Bm A
Slowly the fires are burning bearing their silent witness
Bm G D G A D
And the living past returns to reap the Harvest of Souls
D Dsus4 D A G D G (to fade)
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