Chords for Runddans Interviews Part 1: Todd Rundgren

_ _ _ Music sometimes needs to [Gb] be _ deconstructed as much as constructed.
_ And the whole process of this was [B] almost like I've characterized it as the [Eb] beginning and end of all music.
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ Well, we started [Ab] out with just some _ [A] improvisation.
The first day that we [Abm] got together on the project,
I don't think we ever thought that three years later, you know, [D] this would be the baby that _ _ results [B] from that collaboration.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ I was _ _ coincidentally [Dm] in _ _ [F] Norway for another event, and [Db] we thought,
well, it would be nice to get together for [Fm] a couple of afternoons and fool around and see what happens.
And that's as [Gb] seriously as we took it at that point.
But then after we had done [Abm] that, it occurred [B] to us, well, maybe there's more to be done.
You [D] know, maybe this thing needs more vocals, maybe words. _ _ _ _
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[E] _ [Eb] There's so many _ [F] _ interesting and crazy sounds, but after [Eb] a while you want [F] something that's familiar [Ebm] and human to kind of reground you.
[B] And so I kind of see the vocals as having that purpose.
And [Em] even though we started out with [Am] simply improvisations, [Gb] many of which have survived to this day in the final production, _ _
still seem like at [E] some point [D] we had to have some words maybe, you know,
or some actual melodies that people could follow and potentially even sing along to if _ [E] they grok'd it [F] well enough.
_ [Fm] Standing [Ab] naked as the moonlight _ hollows the ground. _
_ [Db] It isn't like there's _ songs and you could pick out a [Ebm] favorite song. _ _ _
It's more easy to say, I like it from _ _
[Bb] _ 745 _ until _ [F] _
_ _ _ 933 or something [Ab] like that.
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It's almost like a train ride [A] in a way.
It's [Ebm] like going through little towns and big cities and rural [G] fields _ and giant [E] trestles over great valleys _ [D] and _ [Bb] through mountain tunnels [Eb] and things like that.
[F] The only way I can sort of characterize it is that it's like this [Bb] journey.
The _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [F] further along you go, the more you lose track of how long [Db] you've been listening to it.
And so it takes you out of the [Fm] place that you're in, [Ab] puts you in this kind [Fm] of other _ [F] _ _ [G] space where time isn't as important.
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Like those [E] places that are [D] very extremely simple and primitive [Am] and then in other [D] places there is so [Eb] much sound and _ glory happening, [D] you know,
that you feel like [C] you're this big [Dm] in the face of it.
So there [F] are so many moods that you [Db] experience during the course of it, it can't all be [Eb] _ grasped in one listening.
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] Oh Jesus.
_ Hey!
Shut up! _ _ _
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_ _ _ Alright, enough of that. _