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