Dress Rehearsal Rag Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]I woke up in the middle of the afternoon,
I [G]didn't feel like much
[F]An d I said to myself,
where are you golden [E]boy?
Where's your famous golden [F]touch?
I thought you knew
where all of the [E]elephants lie down
[Am]I thought you were crown prince
of all [G]the wheels in ivory town
[Am]Look at your body now,
there's [Bb]nothing much to save
And a [C]bitter voice in the mirror cries,
[Bb]Hey Prince, you need a [Am]shave.
Now if you can get your trembling
fin[Bm]gers to behave,
[Am]Why don't you try unwrapping a
stainless [Bm]steel razor blade?
That's [G]right, it's [C]come to this,
It's come [Bb]to this,
And [G#]wasn't it [C]a long way [F]down?
And [G#]wasn't it a [C]long way [F]down?
[Am]There's no hot water
and the [G]cold is running thin
[F]Well, what do you expect
from the kind of places
[E]you've been living in?
[F]Don't drink from that cup,
it's all caked [E]an d cracked
along the rim
[Am]That's not the electric light, my friend,
[G]it's your vision that has dimmed
[Am]Cover up your face with soap there,
[Bb]now you're Santa Claus
[C]And you've got a smile for anyone
who'll [Bb]give you his applause
[Am]You thought you were a racing man
but you [Bm]couldn't stand the pace
There's [Am]a funeral in the mirror
and it's [Bm]stopping at your face
And you know it's [C]come to this,
it's [Gm]come [Bb]to this
And [G#]wasn't it [C]a long way [F]down?
An[G#]d wasn't it a [C]strange way [F]down?
[Am]Once there was a path
and a [G]girl with chestnut hair
An[F]d you spent the summer
picking all the [E]berries that
grew there
[F]Sometimes she was a woman,
some[E]times she was a child
As you [Am]held her in the shadows,
where the [G]raspberries grew wild
And [Am]you climbed the highest mountain,
and you [Bb]sang about the view
And [C]everywhere you wandered,
love [Bb]walked along with you
That's [Am]a hard one to remember,
it [Bm]makes you clench your fist
And [Am]the veins stand out
like highways
[Bm]all along your wrist
And you know it's [C]come to this,
it's come [Gm]to this
[Bb]And [G#]wasn't it [C]a long way d[F]own
And [G#]wasn't it a [C]strange way [F]down
[Am]You can still find a job,
go out [G]and talk to a friend
[F]On the back of magazines
there [E]are coupons you can send
And why don't [F]you join the Rosicrucians,
they will [E]give you back your hope
You can [Am]find your love
with the diagrams
in a [G]plain brown envelope
But you've [Am]used up all your coupons
except [Bb]the one that seems
To be [C]tattooed on your arm
along with [Bb]sev eral thousand dreams
Now [Am]Santa Claus comes forward,
there's [Bm]a razor in his mitt
And he put[Am]s on his dark glasses
and he [Bm]shows you where to hit
And then the [C]cameras pan,
[Gm]The stand -in stuntman,
[G#]Dress re[C]hearsal [F]rag.