One Stage Before-Al Stewart

[ti:One Stage Before] [ar:Al Stewart] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]One Stage Before - Al Stewart (阿尔·史蒂伍德) [00:18.80]It seems to me as though [00:20.97] [00:21.67]I've been upon this stage before [00:23.68] [00:24.72]And juggled away the night [00:26.42] [00:26.94]For the same old crowd [00:28.32] [00:30.87]These harlequins you see with me [00:33.54]They too have held the floor [00:35.77] [00:36.94]As here once again they strut [00:39.07]And they fret their hour [00:40.69] [00:43.10]I see those half-familiar [00:44.88] [00:45.42]Faces in the second row [00:48.07] [00:49.44]Ghost-like with the footlights [00:51.70]In their eyes [00:52.78] [00:55.38]But where or when we met like [00:58.16]This last time I just don't know [01:00.46] [01:01.43]It's like a chord [01:03.01]That rings and never dies [01:04.70] [01:07.60]For infinity [01:08.28] [01:20.09]And now these figures in the wings [01:22.82]With all their restless tunes [01:24.58] [01:26.14]Are waiting for someone [01:27.78] [01:28.38]To call their names [01:29.70] [01:32.29]They walk the backstage corridors [01:34.55] [01:35.23]And prowl the dressing-rooms [01:36.95] [01:38.34]And vanish to specks of light [01:40.73]In the picture-frames [01:42.19] [01:44.57]But did they move upon [01:46.47]The stage a thousand years ago [01:49.01] [01:50.70]In some play in Paris or Madrid [01:53.93] [01:56.81]And was I there among them then [01:59.14] [01:59.87]In some travelling show [02:01.70] [02:02.86]And is it all still locked inside my head [02:06.37] [02:09.00]For infinity [02:10.10] [02:21.34]And some of you are harmonies [02:23.77] [02:24.38]To all the notes I play [02:26.26] [02:27.40]Although we may not meet [02:29.33]Still you know me well [02:30.99] [02:33.38]While others talk in secret keys [02:36.21]And transpose all I say [02:38.09] [02:39.39]And nothing I do or try can [02:41.51]Get through the spell [02:43.05] [02:45.40]So one more time we'll dim the lights [02:48.31]And ring the curtain up [02:50.12] [02:51.41]And play again like all the times before [02:54.74] [02:57.49]But far behind the music you [02:59.74] [03:00.55]Can almost hear the sounds [03:02.60] [03:03.62]Of laughter like the waves upon the shores [03:06.91] [03:09.78]Of infinity