Three Flights Up Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]On the first floor' On the first
floor
On the first floor there's
a young girl reeling
Her body's numb
and without feeling
As illusions dance on
the midnight ceiling
Now she's falling, now she's kneeling
It's [Am]almost like she's b[A]owed in prayer
A [Am]sa vior sh[D]e's about to bear
She [F]screams for help, but
[D]no one's there[C]
[D]On the first floor
On the first floor people walk the
halls
But none can hear her desperate
calls
There is no sound beyond the
walls
So to the telephone she crawls
She telephones her only friend
The one [A]on whom she [D]can depend
[A]But the[F] phone rings on without an end
Then [C]rings no [D]more[C]
[G]On the first [D]floor
There's a party on [Bm]the second floor
And [D]through the picture [A]window
you can see [D]them all
They're laughing and they're
[G]dancing
[Bm]Admiring [D]the Ren[A]oir
that's hanging [D]on the wall
[G]But in the master bedroom
where the coats are piled high
A silent, saddened lady thinks of what
it's like to die
And as she dwells on all the years she still
has [Em]left to face
[G]She wonders how she'll ever find someone
to take his [Em]place[Am]
[A]Then suddenly she's jarred
by the ringing [Am]of the phone
[A]Oh, why do you ring now, just when I want
[G]to be alone?
So she walks into the bathroom and drinks
some water from [Em]a cup
[G]But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it [Em]up
[Am][A][Am][A]
[D]
[G][D][G][D][G][D][G][D]
My family was very poor
So I worked hard to be [G]secure
[Em]I married one I had to w[D]ed
[Bm]And not the [D]one I love[Em]d in
[Asus4]stead[A][Am][A][D]
When I was young my blood
ran wild
But we stayed married for the child
[Em]Now three flights up ,[G] I'm
[D]all [Bm]alone
My wife is dead, [D]my [Em]child [A]is grown[Am][A]
[D]My daughter leads a wayward life
She's been a failure as [G]a wife
[Em]And though she lives just
[D]one floor [Bm]down
She never call[D]s or c[Em]omes
[A]around[Am][A][D]
Step off the platform
and onto the train
Look out your window and into the rain
Watch all the buildings that
[G]pass as [D]you ride
And count all the stories
that go on inside
And then ask yourself if it must
[Bm]be this way
[Em]Should walls and doors and [A]plaster ceilings
[Em]Separate us from each [A]others' feelings?
[D]