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[ti:One Stage Before] |
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[ar:Al Stewart] |
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[al:The Essential] |
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[offset:0] |
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One Stage Before - Al Stewart |
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It seems to me as though |
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I've been upon this stage before |
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And juggled away the night |
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For the same old crowd |
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These harlequins you see with me |
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They too have held the floor |
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As here once again they strut |
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And they fret their hour |
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I see those half-familiar |
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Faces in the second row |
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Ghost-like with the footlights |
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In their eyes |
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But where or when we met like |
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This last time I just don't know |
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It's like a chord |
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That rings and never dies |
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For infinity |
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And now these figures in the wings |
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With all their restless tunes |
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Are waiting for someone |
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To call their names |
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They walk the backstage corridors |
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And prowl the dressing-rooms |
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And vanish to specks of light |
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In the picture-frames |
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But did they move upon |
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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 |
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In some travelling show |
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And is it all still locked inside my head |
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For infinity |
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And some of you are harmonies |
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To all the notes I play |
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Although we may not meet |
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Still you know me well |
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While others talk in secret keys |
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And transpose all I say |
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And nothing I do or try can |
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Get through the spell |
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So one more time we'll dim the lights |
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And ring the curtain up |
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And play again like all the times before |
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But far behind the music you |
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Can almost hear the sounds |
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Of laughter like the waves upon the shores |
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Of infinity |
