Al Stewart – One Stage Before (Guitar)

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It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before

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And juggled away the night for the same old crowd

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These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor

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As here once again they strut and they fret their hour

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I see those half-familiar faces in the second row

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Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes

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But where or when we met like this last time, I just don't know

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It's like a chord that rings and never dies      for infinity

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And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes

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Are waiting around for someone to call their names

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They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing rooms

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And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames

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But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago

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In some play in Paris or Madrid

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And was I there among them then, in some travelling show

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And is it all still locked inside my head      for infinity

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And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play

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Although we may not meet still you know me well

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While others talk in secret keys and transpose what I say

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And nothing I do or try can get me through the spell

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So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up

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And play again like all the times before

Eb      Bb        Cm             Bb     F        Gm
But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds

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Of laughter like the waves upon the shores      of infinity

GUITAR SOLO
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