I’ve Heard that Tear Stained Monologue You Do There by the Door Before You Go
words and music
by Mason Williams

INTRO: C   G F   C  G F
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Sometimes I get the feeling I’ve passed this way one time in life before
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Like the rerun of some movie I’ve seen a thousand Saturdays ago
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I know exactly what your gonna say before it happens in each scene
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And I find myself rehearsing for that blackout situation
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Where the punchline reaches out and punches me

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I always play the same part; the good guy gets the girl, I wind up dead.
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Who rides into the sunset when the credits start to roll and flash upon the 
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screen inside my head
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The show is done, the lights go up, I throw my empty popcorn box away
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Go back to unreality on rubber legs, I walk into the day

(Bridge)
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Life is never logical, the faces change, the lines all stay the same
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I know the cues where I came in, the exits but I can’t recall your name
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So save your breath, don’t tell me how it all comes out, somehow I think I know
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I’ve heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go.
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What makes me take you by the hand and stand around in line one time again
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Just to see the same old madness.. well, I ask you ain’t this the place where I 
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     came in?
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So save your breath, don’t tell me how it all come out, somehow I think I know
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I’ve heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go.

(end song on held C chord)

This work is entirely my own creation made especially for you on a Mac!
Patrick Nance
emswife@attbi.com