所属专辑:Year Of The Cat (2001 Digital Remaster)
歌手: Al Stewart
时长: 04:41
One Stage Before - Al Stewart[00:00:00]
It seems to me as though[00:00:18]
I've been upon this stage before[00:00:21]
And juggled away the night[00:00:24]
For the same old crowd[00:00:27]
These harlequins you see with me[00:00:31]
They too have held the floor[00:00:33]
As here once again they strut[00:00:37]
And they fret their hour[00:00:39]
I see those half-familiar[00:00:43]
Faces in the second row[00:00:45]
Ghost-like with the footlights[00:00:49]
In their eyes[00:00:51]
But where or when we met like[00:00:55]
This last time I just don't know[00:00:57]
It's like a chord[00:01:01]
That rings and never dies[00:01:03]
For infinity[00:01:07]
And now these figures in the wings[00:01:20]
With all their restless tunes[00:01:23]
Are waiting for someone[00:01:26]
To call their names[00:01:29]
They walk the backstage corridors[00:01:32]
And prowl the dressing-rooms[00:01:35]
And vanish to specks of light[00:01:38]
In the picture-frames[00:01:41]
But did they move upon[00:01:44]
The stage a thousand years ago[00:01:47]
In some play in Paris or Madrid[00:01:51]
And was I there among them then[00:01:57]
In some travelling show[00:01:59]
And is it all still locked inside my head[00:02:03]
For infinity[00:02:09]
And some of you are harmonies[00:02:21]
To all the notes I play[00:02:24]
Although we may not meet[00:02:27]
Still you know me well[00:02:29]
While others talk in secret keys[00:02:33]
And transpose all I say[00:02:36]
And nothing I do or try can[00:02:39]
Get through the spell[00:02:42]
So one more time we'll dim the lights[00:02:45]
And ring the curtain up[00:02:48]
And play again like all the times before[00:02:51]
But far behind the music you[00:02:58]
Can almost hear the sounds[00:03:01]
Of laughter like the waves upon the shores[00:03:04]
Of infinity[00:03:10]