Mason Williams - Ive heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go

Some^Ctimes I^F get ^Gthe fee^Clin^Gg ^FI’v^Ce p^Gas^Fsed this way one time in life before L^Cike t^Fhe re^Grun of some m^Covi^Ge ^FI’ve^C seen a thousand Saturdays ago I ^Amknow exactly w^Dhat your gonna^G say before it happens in each scene An^Cd I fin^Fd mysel^Gf rehearsing for that blackout situation Where the pun^Cchl^Gin^Fe reaches out and punches me

I ^Calways pla^Fy the same ^Gpart; the good g^Cuy ^Gge^Fts t^Che ^Ggi^Frl, I wind up dead. Wh^Co rides^F into t^Ghe sunset when the credits start to roll and flash upon the screen inside my he^Cad ^{G F C} Th^Ame show is do^Dne, the lights go up, I th^Grow my empty popcorn box away Go^Am back to unre^Dality on rubb^Ger legs, I walk into the day

Li^Amfe is never logical, the^D faces change, the lines all stay the same I ^Amknow the cues where I ^Dcame in, the exits but I can’t recall your name C F G C GF So save your breath, don’t tell me how it all comes out, somehow I think I know I’ve^C heard that tear stained ^Fmonologue yo^Gu do th^Cere by the door before you go. Wh^Amat makes me take ^Dyou by th^Ge hand and stand around in line one time again Just^Am to see the same old ma^Ddness.. well, I ask you ain’t this the place where I came in^G? So^C save you^Fr bre^Gath, don’t te^Cll ^Gme^F h^Cow it all come out, somehow I think I know I’^Cve heard that tear stained mo^Fnologue you do th^Gere by the door before you g^Co.