Tonart: G major
Verse 1
F#
D#m
So here she's actin' happy in
C#
A#m
side her handsome home
F#
C#
And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi,
B
A
takin' tips and gettin' stoned
C#
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
B
A
C#
Then I knew where I had to go
I thought about taking a limousine
G#m
C#
Or at least a fancy car
But I ended up taking a taxi
B
A
C#
'Cause that's how I got this far
Verse 3
F#
You see, ten years ago it
D#m
was the front seat
C#
A#m
Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain
F#
Now here I am straight and sit
C#
tin' in the back
B
A
C#
Hitting 16Parkside Lane
D#
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
C#
And said, "She doesn't live
G#m
D#
C#
G#m
D#
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
C#
G#m
"I got one more fare for you"
D#
C#
G#m
Verse 5
D#
F#
And so we rolled back into the city
G#
B
Up to a five-storey old old brownstone
C#
I rang the bell that had her name
D#
on the mailbox
C#
G#m
The buzzer said somebody's
D#
home
Interlude 1
C#
G#m
D#
C#
G#m
D#
Verse 6
D#
And the look on her face as
F#
she opened the door
Ab
B
Was like an old joke told by a friend
Db
It'd taken ten more years but
Eb
she'd found her smile
Db
Ab
Eb
And I watched the corners start to bend
And she said,
Ab
Fm
"How are you Harry?
Eb
Haven't we played this scene before?"
Ab
Eb
I said, "It's so good to see you, Sue
Db
Abm
D#
Had to play it out just once more"
C#
D#
Play it out just once more
Interlude 2
D#
Db
Eb
Verse 7
Eb
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
Db
Ab
When we don't get to touch our
Interlude 3
dreams"
Eb
C#
G#m
D#
C#
G#m
Eb
Verse 8
Ab
That's when I asked her,
Fm
"Where was that actress?"
Eb
She said,
Bb
Eb
"That was somebody else"
Ab
And then I asked her why she
Eb
looked so happy now
Db
She said, "I finally like myself,
Eb
at last I like myself"
Interlude 4
Gm
Eb
Fsus4
Csus4
C
Fm
Fdim
Abm
Eb
Verse 9
Eb
So we talked all through that afternoon
Talking about where we'd been
We talked of the tiny difference
Csus4
Between ending and starting
C
to begin
Fm
We talked 'cause talking tells you things
Like what you really are
Fdim
thinking about
G#m
But sometimes you can't find
C#
what you're feeling
D#
'Til all the words run out
Interlude 5
D#
Verse 10
D#
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"
C#
G#
She said, "Harry,
Eb
you're right"
C#
G#m
D#
C#
G#m
Verse 11
Eb
Ab
Fm
Don't ask me if I made love to her
Eb
Or which one of us started to cry
Ab
Don't ask me why she wouldn't
Eb
take the money that I left
Db
Abm
If I answered at all I'd lie
Interlude 6
D#
C#
D#
B
A
C#
Verse 12
C#
So I thought about her as I sang that night
And how the circle keeps rolling around
G#m
C#
How I act as I'm facing the footlights
B
And how she's flying with
A
both feet on the ground
C#
Verse 13
F#
D#m
I guess it's a sequel to our story
C#
From the journey 'tween
A#m
Heaven and Hell
F#
With half the time thinking of
C#
what might have been
B
A
C#
And half thinkin' just as well
D#m
G#
C#
I guess only time will tell
Outro 1
C#
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