Tonart: B minor•
Verse 1
Bm
Four o'clock in the afternoon
C#m
C#
And I didn't feel like very much.
"Where are you golden boy,
C#m
C#
Where is your famous golden touch?"
Bm
I thought you knew where
Bdim
C#m
C#
All of the ele phants lie down,
Bm
I thought you were the crown prince
C#m
C#
Of all the wheels in Ivory Town.
Verse 2
Bm
Just take a look at your body now,
Am
There's nothing much to save
Bm
And a bitter voice in the mirror cries,
Am
"Hey, Prince, you need a shave."
Verse 3
Bm
Now if you can manage to get
C#m
Your trembling fingers to behave,
Bm
Why don't you try unwrapping
C#m
A stainless steel razor blade?
Verse 4
Bm
That's right, it's come to this,
Am
A#
Yes it's come to this,
D
A
And wasn't it a long
D
G
A#
way down,
A#m
D
Wasn't it a strange
way down?
G
Verse 5
Bm
There's no hot water
C#m
And the cold is running thin.
Bm
Well, what do you expect from
The kind of places you've
Verse 6
Bm
Don't drink from that cup,
C#m
It's all caked and cracked
along the rim.
Bm
That's not the electric light, my friend,
C#m
That is your vision growing dim.
Verse 7
Bm
Am
Cover up your face with soap, there,
F
Now you're Santa Claus.
Bm
And you've got a gift for anyone
Am
Who will give you his applause.
Verse 8
Bm
I thought you were a racing man,
C#m
Ah, but you couldn't take the pace.
Bm
That's a funeral in the mirror
C#m
And it's stopping at your face.
Verse 9
Bm
That's right, it's come to this,
Am
Yes it's come to this,
A#
A
D
G
And wasn't it a long way down,
A#
D
Ah wasn't it a strange way down?
G
Verse 10
Bm
Once there was a path
C#m
And a girl with chestnut hair,
Bm
And you passed the summers
C#m
Picking all of the berries that grew there
C#
Bm
There were times she was a woman,
C#m
Oh, there were times she was just a child,
Bm
And you held her in the shadows
C#m
Where the raspberries grow
wild.
Verse 11
Bm
And you climbed the twilight mountains
Am
F
And you sang about the view,
Bm
And everywhere that you wandered
A
Am
Love seemed to go along with you.
Bm
That's a hard one to remember,
C#m
Yes it makes you clench your fist.
Verse 12
Bm
And then the veins stand
out like highways,
C#m
All along your wrist.
Bm
And yes it's come to this,
A#
D
G
A#
And wasn't it a long way down,
D
G
Wasn't it a strange way down?
Verse 13
Bm
You can still find a job,
C#m
Go out and talk to a friend.
Bm
On the back of every magazine
C#m
There are those coupons you can send.
Bm
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
C#m
They can give you back your hope,
Bm
You can find your love with diagrams
C#m
On a plain brown envelope.
Verse 14
Bm
But you've used up all your coupons
Am
Except the one that seems
Bm
To be written on your wrist
Am
Along with several thousand dreams.
Verse 15
Bm
Now Santa Claus comes forward,
C#m
That's a razor in his mit
Bm
And he puts on his dark glasses
C#m
And he shows you where to hit
Bm
And then the cameras pan,
Am
The stand in stunt man,
A#
D
G
Dress rehearsal rag,
A#
D
G
It's just the dress rehearsal rag,
A#
D
Am
G
You know this dress rehearsal rag,
A#
D
G
Gm
It's just a dress rehearsal rag.
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