One Stage Before

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[Intro}
Em  C (repeat 6 times)


[Verse I]
Em                C              
It seems to me as though I've 
   Em               C
been upon this stage before
    G        D       C            
And juggled away the night for the
 Am       Em    C
 same old crowd
      Em             C            
These harlequins you see with me, 
     Em                C
they too have held the floor
   G          D         C        
As here once again they strut and
      Am         Em
 they fret their hour
  G                D            C
I see those half-familiar faces 
        C/B  Am  Am/G
in the second row
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D                   Am           
Ghost-like with the footlights in
       Bm
 their eyes
    C        C/B     Am          
But where or when we met like 
       G    G/F#         Em
this last time I just don't know
Am                             
It's like a chord that rings and 
        D    B7
never dies
    Em       C  Em  C  Em  C  Em  C
For infinity


[Verse II]
    Em                C           
And now these figures in the wings
      Em                 C
 with all their restless tunes
    G        D         C          
Are waiting around for someone to 
Am         Em    C
call their names
     Em                 C         
They walk the backstage corridors 
    Em                 C
and prowl the dressing rooms
    G         D         C        
And vanish to specks of light in 
    Am      Em
the picture frames
    G              D               
But did they move upon the stage a 
C        C/B    Am  Am/G
thousand years ago
D               Am       Bm
In some play in Paris or Madrid?
    C     C/B    Am              
And was I there among them then, 
G       G/F#       Em
in some travelling show
    Am                             
And is it all still locked inside 
  D    B7
my head
    Em       C  Em  C  Em  C  Em  C
For infinity


[Verse III]
    Em              C             
And some of you are harmonists to 
Em              C
all the notes I play
G           D       C            
Although we may not meet still 
  Am      Em   C
you know me well
      Em             C            
While others talk in secret keys 
   Em              C
and transpose all I say
    G         D     C          
And nothing I do or try can get
Am            Em    C
  through the spell
   G                   D     
So one more time we'll dim the 
             C        C/B     Am  
lights and ring the curtain up
Am/G

    D               Am            
And play again like    all the 
   Bm
times before
    C     C/B      Am            
But far behind the music you can 
G      G/F#     Em
almost hear the sounds
   Am                              
Of laughter like the waves upon the
 D      B7
 shores
   Em       C  Em  C  Em  C  Em  C
Of infinity