Stage One - Naturally Recurring

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

Diamonds in the rain In the first dream you were a driver And I was a car, we didn't get real far We took a highway full of black top roadkill Could that be me? Could that be you? (Could that be me?) In the 2nd dream you were a rifle And I was a deer but with no shelter near You were camouflaged In pain I couldn't see through Could that be me? Could that be you? (Could that be me?) The slow striptease of time Releases now the seven veils And ages of sweet wanderlust Steals about a half step from my stride And hold me now accountable And throws a finger at my trust And barks like a big dog at my pride But shows me diamonds in the rain Diamonds in the rain that'll sparkle till I die Diamonds in the rain In this recurring dream You said you were lonely I said everyone's lonely And not just you Some people just hide their loneliness Behind the coats of others Could that be me? Could that be you? (Could that be me?) Please don't let that be me and you! Diamonds in the rain that'll sparkle till I die Diamonds in the rain