Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
B
G#m
So here she's actin' happy in
F#
D#m
side her handsome home
B
F#
And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi,
E
D
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
E
D
F#
Then I knew where I had to go
I thought about taking a limousine
C#m
F#
Or at least a fancy car
But I ended up taking a taxi
E
D
F#
'Cause that's how I got this far
Verse 3
B
You see, ten years ago it
G#m
was the front seat
F#
D#m
Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain
B
Now here I am straight and sit
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tin' in the back
E
D
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
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And said, "She doesn't live
C#m
G#
F#
C#m
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#
C#m
"I got one more fare for you"
G#
F#
C#m
Verse 5
G#
B
And so we rolled back into the city
C#
E
Up to a five-storey old old brownstone
F#
I rang the bell that had her name
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on the mailbox
F#
C#m
The buzzer said somebody's
G#
home
Interlude 1
F#
C#m
G#
F#
C#m
G#
Verse 6
G#
And the look on her face as
B
she opened the door
Db
E
Was like an old joke told by a friend
Gb
It'd taken ten more years but
Ab
she'd found her smile
Gb
Db
Ab
And I watched the corners start to bend
And she said,
Db
Bbm
"How are you Harry ?
Ab
Haven't we played this scene before?"
Db
Ab
I said, "It's so good to see you, Sue
Gb
Dbm
G#
Had to play it out just once more"
F#
G#
Play it out just once more
Interlude 2
G#
Gb
Ab
Verse 7
Ab
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
Gb
Db
When we don't get to touch our
Interlude 3
dreams"
Ab
F#
C#m
G#
F#
C#m
Ab
Verse 8
Db
That's when I asked her,
Bbm
"Where was that actress?"
Ab
She said,
Eb
Ab
"That was somebody else"
Db
And then I asked her why she
Ab
looked so happy now
Gb
She said, "I finally like myself,
Ab
at last I like myself"
Interlude 4
Cm
Ab
Bbsus4
Fsus4
F
Bbm
Bbdim
Dbm
Ab
Verse 9
Ab
So we talked all through that afternoon
Talking about where we'd been
We talked of the tiny difference
Fsus4
Between ending and starting
F
to begin
Bbm
We talked 'cause talking tells you things
Like what you really are
Bbdim
thinking about
C#m
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,
Ab
you're right"
F#
C#m
G#
F#
C#m
Verse 11
Ab
Db
Bbm
Don't ask me if I made love to her
Ab
Or which one of us started to cry
Db
Don't ask me why she wouldn't
Ab
take the money that I left
Gb
Dbm
If I answered at all I'd lie
Interlude 6
G#
F#
G#
E
D
F#
Verse 12
F#
So I thought about her as I sang that night
And how the circle keeps rolling around
C#m
F#
How I act as I'm facing the footlights
E
And how she's flying with
D
both feet on the ground
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Verse 13
B
G#m
I guess it's a sequel to our story
F#
From the journey 'tween
D#m
Heaven and Hell
B
With half the time thinking of
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what might have been
E
D
F#
And half thinkin' just as well
G#m
C#
F#
I guess only time will tell
Outro 1
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