Tonalità: Eb major
Verse 1
Bb
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
Fm
F
It's almost like she's bowed in prayer
Fm
Bb
A sa vior she's about to bear
Db
She screams for help, but
Bb
Ab
no one's there
Bb
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
F
Bb
The one on whom she can depend
F
Db
But the phone rings on without an end
Ab
Bb
Ab
Then rings no more
Eb
Bb
On the first floor
Gm
There's a party on the second floor
Bb
F
And through the picture window
Bb
you can see them all
They're laughing and they're
Eb
dancing
Gm
Bb
F
Admiring the Renoir
Bb
that's hanging on the wall
Eb
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
Cm
has left to face
Eb
She wonders how she'll ever find someone
Cm
Fm
to take his place
F
Then suddenly she's jarred
Fm
by the ringing of the phone
F
Oh, why do you ring now, just when I want
Eb
to be alone?
So she walks into the bathroom and drinks
Cm
some water from a cup
Eb
Cm
But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up
Fm
F
Fm
F
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
My family was very poor
Eb
So I worked hard to be secure
Cm
Bb
I married one I had to wed
Gm
Bb
Cm
And not the one I loved in
Fsus4
F
Fm
F
Bb
stead
When I was young my blood
ran wild
But we stayed married for the child
Cm
Eb
Now three flights up , I'm
Bb
Gm
all alone
Bb
Cm
F
Fm
F
My wife is dead, my child is grown
Bb
My daughter leads a wayward life
Eb
She's been a failure as a wife
Cm
And though she lives just
Bb
Gm
one floor down
Bb
Cm
She never calls or comes
F
Fm
F
Bb
around
Step off the platform
and onto the train
Look out your window and into the rain
Watch all the buildings that
Eb
Bb
pass as you ride
And count all the stories
that go on inside
And then ask yourself if it must
Gm
be this way
Cm
F
Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings
Cm
F
Separate us from each others' feelings?
Bb
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