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Al Stewart & the Empty Pockets Live

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2024

One Stage Before

Al Stewart & The Empty Pockets Live
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It seems to me as though I've been upon the stage before
Juggled away the night for the same old crowd
These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor
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
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

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
Did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago
In some play in Paris or Madrid
Was I there among them then, in some travelling show?
Is it all still locked inside my head?
For infinity

Some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play
Although we may not meet, you know me well
Others talk in secret keys, transpose all I say
And nothing I do or try can get through the spell
One more time we'll dim the lights, ring the curtain up
Play again like all the times before
Far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds
Of laughter like the waves upon the shores
Of infinity

Once again, thank you very much for coming
Thanks to The Empty Pockets

WRITERS

Alistair Ian Stewart

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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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