The Last Encore

Tonight there's a spark in the air
 The last curtain call
 With crowd growing restless
 I take to the stage
 To the cheers of their great enthrall
 Under the fervid gaslights
 The pleasure and pain
 Reciting line after line from the heart
 This moment unseen again
 Oh, it's so long ago, it all feels like yesterday
 The thrill of the show, this chill never goes away, no
 The roar of the crowd, the agony and ecstasy
 That was then, this is now
 Now it's gone...
 I'm walking through a moonless night
 Keep searching for a new spotlight
 And everyday it takes all my might
 To make it through to morning light, oh
 It must be two hundred years on
 The years lost in time
 Gets harder with each passing day to recall
 The day that I died
 Oh, it's so long ago, it all feels like yesterday
 The chill, it's like snow, the cold never fades away, no
 In a heartbeat, a breath, all stolen away from me
 A man, once with dream, once with life
 Now it's gone...
 And we all turned to bow, it was glorious
 I'd give all I have for one just last encore...
 Oh, it's so long ago, it all feels like yesterday
 The thrill of the show, this chill never goes away, no
 In a heartbeat, a breath, all stolen away from me
 A man, once with dream, once with life
 Now it's gone...