One Stage Before by Al Stewart
One Stage Before by Al Stewart

One Stage Before

Al Stewart * Track #8 On Year of the Cat

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One Stage Before by Al Stewart

Performed by
Al Stewart
Produced by
Alan Parsons
Writed by
Al Stewart
About

Al Stewart explains One Stage Before as a song that centers around reincarnation. The many hundreds of great performers, spanning back to the Greeks and Romans, who have stood in this same spot, on these same floorboards on the stage that you are now standing on.

“We all tread these boards, we all...

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One Stage Before Lyrics

It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before
And juggled away the night for the same old crowd
These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor
As 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
But 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

And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes
Are waiting around 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
But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago
In some play in Paris or Madrid?
And was I there among them then, in some travelling show
And is it all still locked inside my head
For infinity

And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play
Although we may not meet still you know me well

While others talk in secret keys and transpose all I say
And nothing I do or try can get through the spell
So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up
And play again like all the times before
But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds
Of laughter like the waves upon the shores
Of infinity

One Stage Before Q&A

Who wrote One Stage Before's ?

One Stage Before was written by Al Stewart.

Who produced One Stage Before's ?

One Stage Before was produced by Alan Parsons.

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