One Stage Before - Al Stewart

作曲：Al Stewart

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