Tonalidad: Eb major
Verse 1
G
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
Dm
D
It's almost like she's bowed in prayer
Dm
G
A sa vior she's about to bear
Bb
She screams for help, but
G
F
no one's there
G
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
D
G
The one on whom she can depend
D
Bb
But the phone rings on without an end
F
G
F
Then rings no more
C
G
On the first floor
Em
There's a party on the second floor
G
D
And through the picture window
G
you can see them all
They're laughing and they're
C
dancing
Em
G
D
Admiring the Renoir
G
that's hanging on the wall
C
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
Am
has left to face
C
She wonders how she'll ever find someone
Am
Dm
to take his place
D
Then suddenly she's jarred
Dm
by the ringing of the phone
D
Oh, why do you ring now, just when I want
C
to be alone?
So she walks into the bathroom and drinks
Am
some water from a cup
C
Am
But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up
Dm
D
Dm
D
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
My family was very poor
C
So I worked hard to be secure
Am
G
I married one I had to wed
Em
G
Am
And not the one I loved in
Dsus4
D
Dm
D
G
stead
When I was young my blood
ran wild
But we stayed married for the child
Am
C
Now three flights up , I'm
G
Em
all alone
G
Am
D
Dm
D
My wife is dead, my child is grown
G
My daughter leads a wayward life
C
She's been a failure as a wife
Am
And though she lives just
G
Em
one floor down
G
Am
She never calls or comes
D
Dm
D
G
around
Step off the platform
and onto the train
Look out your window and into the rain
Watch all the buildings that
C
G
pass as you ride
And count all the stories
that go on inside
And then ask yourself if it must
Em
be this way
Am
D
Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings
Am
D
Separate us from each others' feelings?
G
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