One Stage Before

******** Gm Eb Gm Eb It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before Bb F Cm Gm Eb And juggled away the night for the same old crowd Gm Eb Gm Eb These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor Bb F Cm Gm Eb As here once again they strut and they fret their hour ------------------------------------------------------------ ******* Bb F Eb Gm Cm I see those half-familiar faces in the second row F Cm Dm Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes Eb Bb Cm Bb F Gm But where or when we met like this last time, I just don't know Cm F Dm Gm Eb 4x) It's like a chord that rings and never dies for infinity ------------------------------------------------------------ ********* Gm Eb Gm Eb And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes Bb F Cm Gm Eb Are waiting around for someone to call their names Gm Eb Gm Eb They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing rooms Bb F Cm Gm Eb And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames ------------------------------------------------------------ ******* Bb F Eb Gm Cm But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago F Cm Dm In some play in Paris or Madrid Eb Bb Cm Bb F Gm And was I there among them then, in some travelling show Cm F Dm Gm Eb 4x) And is it all still locked inside my head for infinity ------------------------------------------------------------ ******** Gm Eb Gm Eb And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play Bb F Cm Gm Eb Although we may not meet still you know me well Gm Eb Gm Eb While others talk in secret keys and transpose what I say Bb F Cm Gm Eb And nothing I do or try can get me through the spell ------------------------------------------------------------ ******* Bb F Eb Gm Cm So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up F Cm Dm 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 Cm F Dm Gm Eb 4x) Of laughter like the waves upon the shores of infinity GUITAR SOLO ************ 03:22 b p p whammy bar br b p p 03:48 b p s p p Tricky Bit p S p -13-13-13-11\10--11-10-------h--p-------------------------- -----------------------13--11-13-11---p---------p---------- ------------------------------------12-10-----10-8---p----- ------------------------------------------13-------10-8-10- ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- s up b p p