Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
Bb
Gm
So here she's actin' happy in
F
Dm
side her handsome home
Bb
F
And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi,
Eb
Db
takin' tips and gettin' stoned
F
Verse 2
I got into town a little early
Had eight hours to kill before the show
First I thought about heading
up north of the bay
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Db
F
Then I knew where I had to go
I thought about taking a limousine
Cm
F
Or at least a fancy car
But I ended up taking a taxi
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Db
F
'Cause that's how I got this far
Verse 3
Bb
You see, ten years ago it
Gm
was the front seat
F
Dm
Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain
Bb
Now here I am straight and sit
F
tin' in the back
Eb
Db
F
Hitting 16Parkside Lane
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Verse 4
The driveway was the same
as I remembered
And a butler came and
answered the door
He just shook his head when I
asked for her
F
And said, "She doesn't live
Cm
G
F
Cm
G
here anymore"
But he offered to give me the address
That they were forwarding her letters to
I just took it and returned to
the cabbie and said
F
Cm
"I got one more fare for you"
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F
Cm
Verse 5
G
Bb
And so we rolled back into the city
C
Eb
Up to a five-storey old old brownstone
F
I rang the bell that had her name
G
on the mailbox
F
Cm
The buzzer said somebody's
G
home
Interlude 1
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Cm
G
F
Cm
G
Verse 6
G
And the look on her face as
Bb
she opened the door
C
Eb
Was like an old joke told by a friend
F
It'd taken ten more years but
G
she'd found her smile
F
C
G
And I watched the corners start to bend
And she said,
C
Am
"How are you Harry?
G
Haven't we played this scene before?"
C
G
I said, "It's so good to see you, Sue
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Cm
G
Had to play it out just once more"
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G
Play it out just once more
Interlude 2
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F
G
Verse 7
G
She said, "I've heard you
flying high on my radio"
I answered "It's not all it seems"
That's when she laughed and she said,
"It's better sometimes
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C
When we don't get to touch our
Interlude 3
dreams"
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F
Cm
G
F
Cm
G
Verse 8
C
That's when I asked her,
Am
"Where was that actress?"
G
She said,
D
G
"That was somebody else"
C
And then I asked her why she
G
looked so happy now
F
She said, "I finally like myself,
G
at last I like myself"
Interlude 4
Bm
G
Asus4
Esus4
E
Am
Adim
Cm
G
Verse 9
G
So we talked all through that afternoon
Talking about where we'd been
We talked of the tiny difference
Esus4
Between ending and starting
E
to begin
Am
We talked 'cause talking tells you things
Like what you really are
Adim
thinking about
Cm
But sometimes you can't find
F
what you're feeling
G
'Til all the words run out
Interlude 5
G
Verse 10
G
So I asked her to come to the concert
She said, "No, I work at night"
I said, "We've gotten too damn
good at leaving, Sue"
F
C
She said, "Harry,
G
you're right"
F
Cm
G
F
Cm
Verse 11
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C
Am
Don't ask me if I made love to her
G
Or which one of us started to cry
C
Don't ask me why she wouldn't
G
take the money that I left
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Cm
If I answered at all I'd lie
Interlude 6
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F
G
Eb
Db
F
Verse 12
F
So I thought about her as I sang that night
And how the circle keeps rolling around
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F
How I act as I'm facing the footlights
Eb
And how she's flying with
Db
both feet on the ground
F
Verse 13
Bb
Gm
I guess it's a sequel to our story
F
From the journey 'tween
Dm
Heaven and Hell
Bb
With half the time thinking of
F
what might have been
Eb
Db
F
And half thinkin' just as well
Gm
C
F
I guess only time will tell
Outro 1
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