[ti:One Stage Before]
[ar:Al Stewart]
[al:The Essential]
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[00:00.00]One Stage Before - Al Stewart
[00:18.80]It seems to me as though
[00:21.67]I've been upon this stage before
[00:24.72]And juggled away the night
[00:26.94]For the same old crowd
[00:30.87]These harlequins you see with me
[00:33.54]They too have held the floor
[00:36.94]As here once again they strut
[00:39.07]And they fret their hour
[00:43.10]I see those half-familiar
[00:45.42]Faces in the second row
[00:49.44]Ghost-like with the footlights
[00:51.70]In their eyes
[00:55.38]But where or when we met like
[00:58.16]This last time I just don't know
[01:01.43]It's like a chord
[01:03.01]That rings and never dies
[01:07.60]For infinity
[01:20.09]And now these figures in the wings
[01:22.82]With all their restless tunes
[01:26.14]Are waiting for someone
[01:28.38]To call their names
[01:32.29]They walk the backstage corridors
[01:35.23]And prowl the dressing-rooms
[01:38.34]And vanish to specks of light
[01:40.73]In the picture-frames
[01:44.57]But did they move upon
[01:46.47]The stage a thousand years ago
[01:50.70]In some play in Paris or Madrid
[01:56.81]And was I there among them then
[01:59.87]In some travelling show
[02:02.86]And is it all still locked inside my head
[02:09.00]For infinity
[02:21.34]And some of you are harmonies
[02:24.38]To all the notes I play
[02:27.40]Although we may not meet
[02:29.33]Still you know me well
[02:33.38]While others talk in secret keys
[02:36.21]And transpose all I say
[02:39.39]And nothing I do or try can
[02:41.51]Get through the spell
[02:45.40]So one more time we'll dim the lights
[02:48.31]And ring the curtain up
[02:51.41]And play again like all the times before
[02:57.49]But far behind the music you
[03:00.55]Can almost hear the sounds
[03:03.62]Of laughter like the waves upon the shores
[03:09.78]Of infinity