One Stage Before Lyrics

One Stage Before lyrics

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

 And juggled away the night for the same old crowd

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

 As here once again they strut and they fret their hour

 I see those half-familiar faces in the second row

 Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes

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

 It's like a chord that rings and never dies

 For infinity.

 

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

 Are waiting for someone to call their names

 They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing-rooms

 And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames

 But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago

 In some play in Paris or Madrid?

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

 And is it all still locked inside my head

 For infinity.

 

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

 Although we may not meet still you know me well

 While others talk in secret keys and transpose all I say

 And nothing I do or try can get through the spell

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

 And play again like all the times before

 But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds

 Of laughter like the waves upon the shores

 Of infinity.

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