Transcripted by: Marc Chaunet marc7marie@hotmail.com
Chords by Xavier Alvarez (Apr. 2000)
From the album The Future Now
Dm C
After all is said and done,
Bm D C
Not very much will have been either way:
Bb D
I'm a chronicler of action, I'm an actor in a play.
Dm C
I know the lines I have to speak,
Bm D C
I know that I won't ever quit, or corpse, or dry
Bb D
but the performance gets so pointless and the days just drift on by...
Bb F
Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar
C G F
in the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show
G# Eb
I'm aware of the latest leading lady, and get mad of her -
Bbm G# F#
it's perfunctory, but why she'll never know.
Dm C Bb A (3x) C# E Dm C# E D
Dm C
When I began, I had my hopes,
Bm D C
believed that I could be a leading light of the stage,
Bb D
but now I've stunned myself to silence, exhausted all my inner rage,
Bb D
extinguished all my joy and violence, trapped all my feelings in a cage.
Bb F
Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar
C G F
I can see that I'm not really going anywhere -
G# Eb
all these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger...
Bbm G# F#
can I really feel? - I wonder if I dare?
Bbm G# F#
At the end of the run, will there be anyone who cares?
Bbm G#
And behind the actor's pose, heaven knows
F# F F#
if there's anyone left in there.