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"Alone At Last"
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from the play _Time Rocker_
(Robert Wilson/Darryl Pinckney/Lou Reed, 1996)
written by Lou Reed
performed by actors, German musicians
Jun 11, 1996
Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
(pre-premiere)
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Alone at last
(Alone at last)
hello, I must be going
(hello, I must be going)
I met myself
(I met myself)
a year from today
(a year from today)
what a shock
(oh what a shock)
Alone at last
(Alone at last)
hello, I must be coming
(hello, I must be coming)
I ran into myself
(I ran into myself)
two years ago today
(two years ago today)
what a shock
(oh what a shock)
What did that girl look like that
I never married
(that I never married)
I fly into the future and see her
(I fly into the future and see her)
with a baby carriage
(with a baby carriage)
(You didn't miss much old sport)
(you'd be in a pauper's court)
Look into the future, look into the past
here I am alone at last
With history gone and tomorrows to come
I witnessed the invention of the atomic bomb
(I saw my own death, should I try to prevent it)
(and if I did, could I live forever)
(And never age and always be healthy)
(could I change the times and become very wealthy)
Would history change
(Would history change)
because I had viewed it
(because I had viewed it)
alone at last, alone at last
Alone at last
(Here I am alone at last)
(a head on my shoulders, legs under my ass)
(Before me the future, behind me the past)
(the present always shifting)
If I knew what I could do
one is one (and two is two)
But this is time I'll travel through
Alone at last
future past
Alone at last
future past
(future past)
{G}{Am}{G}{Am} (Alone at last, hello, I must ...)
{G}{Am}{C}{C/C.D} (I met myself a year from today ...)
{G}{Am}{G}{Am} (Alone at last, hello, I must ...)
{G}{Am}{C}{C} (I ran into myself two years ...)
{C}{G}{Am}{G} (What did that girl look like ...)
{Am}{G}{C}{C} (You didn't miss much old sport ...)
{G}{Am}{G}{Am} (Look into the future, look ...)
{G}{Am}{G}{Am} (- history gone, tomorrows to ...)
{C}{G}{Am}{G} (I saw my own death, should I ...)
{Am}{G}{Am}{G} (-ever, And never age and always be ...)
{C}{Am}{Am}{Am} (- history change because I had ...)
{G}{G} (Alone at last)
{G}{Am}{G}{Am} (Here I am alone at last, a head ...)
{G}{Am}{C}{C} (Before me the future, behind ...)
{C}{G}{Am}{G} (If I knew what I could do ...)
{Am}{G} (- this is time I'll travel through)
{Am}{Am}{G}{G} (Alone at last, future past)
{Am}{Am}{G... (Alone at last, future past ...)
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"Alone At Last"
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unreleased live
(Lou Reed, 1997)
* written for the play _Time Rocker_ (1996)
performed by
Lou Reed with his '98 backing band
Jul 03, 1997
Royal Festival Hall, London
(Meltdown Festival)
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Alone at last
hello, I must be goin'
I met myself a year from today
what a shock
Alone at last
hello, I must be comin'
I ran into myself two years ago today
what a shock
......
What did that girl look like that I never married
I fly into the future, see her with a baby carriage
You didn't miss much old sport
you'd be in a pauper's court
Look into the future, look into the past
here I am alone at last
With history gone, tomorrows to come
I witnessed the invention of the atomic bomb, ah
I saw my own death, should I try to prevent it
and if I did, could I live forever
And never age and always be healthy
could I change the times and become very wealthy
Would history change because I had viewed it
alone at last, alone at last
Alone at last
Here I am alone at last
head on my shoulders, legs under my ass
Before me the future, behind me the past
the present always shifting
If I knew what I, you ..... do
ah, one is one and two is two
But this is time I'll travel through
Alone at last, ooohhh, alone at last, ah
alone at last
Alone at last, alone at last
future past
{A}{Bm}{A}{Bm} (Alone at last, hello, I must ...)
{A}{Bm}{D}{D/D.E} (I met myself a year from today ...)
{A}{Bm}{A}{Bm} (Alone at last, hello, I must ...)
{A}{Bm}{D}{D} (I ran into myself two years ...)
{D}{A}{D}{A} (What did that girl look like ...)
{D}{A}{D}{D/D.E} (- didn't miss much old sport ...)
{A}{Bm}{A}{Bm} (Look into the future, look ...)
{A}{Bm}{A}{Bm} (- history gone, tomorrows to ...)
{D}{A}{Bm}{D} (I saw my own death, should I ...)
{Bm}{A}{Bm}{A} (And never age and always be ...)
{D}{B}{Bm}{Dm} (- history change because I had ...)
{A}{A} (Alone at last)
{A}{Bm}{A}{Bm} (Here I am alone at last, a ...)
{A}{Bm}{D}{D} (Before me the future, behind ...)
{D}{A}{D}{A} (If I knew what I, you ...... do ...)
{D}{A} (- this is time I'll travel through)
{D}{Dm}{A}{A} (Alone at last, ooohhh, alone ...)
{D}{Dm...{A... (Alone at last, alone at last ...)
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transcribed by Shiroh KOUCHI (wildside@mx21.tiki.ne.jp)
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/
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