Dress Rehearsal Rag-Noel Harrison

[ti:Dress Rehearsal Rag] [ar:Noel Harrison] [al:Santa Monica Pier] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dress Rehearsal Rag - Noel Harrison [00:05.71]Four o'clock in the afternoon [00:07.54]And I didn't feel like very much [00:10.35]I said to myself where are you golden boy [00:12.76]Where is your famous golden touch [00:15.35]I thought you knew where [00:16.69]All of the elephants lie down [00:19.92]I thought you were the crown prince [00:21.57]Of all the wheels in Ivory town [00:24.92]Look at your body now [00:26.32]There's nothing much to save [00:28.83]And a bitter voice in the mirror cries [00:31.00]Hey prince you need a shave [00:34.50]Now if you get [00:35.27]Your trembling fingers to behave [00:38.80]Why don't you try unwrapping [00:40.11]A stainless steel razor blade [00:42.19]That's right it's come to this [00:45.59]It's come to this [00:48.12]And wasn't it a long way down [00:53.05]And wasn't it a long way down [00:58.23]There's no hot water [00:59.69]And the cold is running thin [01:02.85]Well what do you expect from [01:04.10]The kind of places you've been living in [01:07.46]Don't drink from that cup [01:08.75]It's all caked and cracked along the rim [01:11.95]That's not the electric light my friend [01:13.98]That is your vision growing dim [01:16.64]Cover up your face with soap there [01:18.97]Now you're Santa Claus [01:21.36]And you've got smile for anyone [01:23.05]Who will give you his applause [01:25.84]I thought you were a racing man [01:27.35]Ah but you couldn't take the pace [01:29.92]That's a funeral in the mirror [01:32.06]And it's stopping at your face [01:33.94]That's right it's come to this [01:36.99]It's come to this [01:39.63]And wasn't it a long way down [01:44.39]And wasn't it a strange way down [01:50.20]Once there was a path [01:51.67]And a girl with chestnut hair [01:54.44]And you passed the summers [01:55.59]Picking all of the berries that grew there [01:59.20]Sometimes she was a woman [02:00.97]Sometimes she was a child [02:02.94]And you held her in the shadows [02:05.14]Where the raspberries grow wild [02:07.41]And you climbed the twilight mountains [02:09.61]And you sang about the view [02:12.10]And everywhere that you wandered [02:14.17]Love seemed to go along with you [02:16.79]That's a hard one to remember [02:18.84]Yes it makes you clench your fist [02:21.18]And then the veins stand out like highways [02:23.73]All along your wrist [02:25.24]That's right it's come to this [02:28.16]It's come to this [02:30.72]And wasn't it a long way down [02:35.51]And wasn't it a strange way down [02:41.03]You can still find a job [02:42.54]Go out and talk to a friend [02:45.41]On the back of every magazine [02:46.83]There are those coupons you can send [02:48.85]Why don't you join the Rosicrucians [02:51.25]They can give you back your hope [02:53.91]You can find your love with diagrams [02:56.05]On a plain brown envelope [02:58.01]But you've used up all your coupons [03:00.62]Except the one that seems [03:03.10]To be written on your wrist [03:05.23]Along with several thousand dreams [03:07.65]Now Santa Claus comes forward [03:09.93]That's a razor in his mit [03:12.17]And he puts on his dark glasses [03:14.45]And he shows you where to hit [03:17.83]And then the cameras pan [03:21.46]The stand in stunt man [03:24.61]Dress rehearsal rag