The actor    (video)

 

    D                     C                    G     - C

1.     The curtain rises on the scene,

D                              C                    G   - C

     with someone shouting to be free.

D                     C                       G     - C

    The play unfolds before my eyes,    

D                              C                 G

    there stands the actor who is me.

 

+  G - C - D - C - G - C    - D - C - D - C

 

    D                           C                      G     - C

2.     The sleeping hours takes this part,

D                          C                       G     - C

    through traffic, telphones and fear.

D                         C                         G     - C

    Put out your problems with the cat,       

D                          C            G

    escape until a bell you hear.

 

        Am                                                G

Our reasons are the same but there's no-one we can blame,

                    F

for there's nowhere we need go,

               E                                           Am

and the only truth we know comes so easily.   - - -

          C                   G                    Am

The sound I have heard in your hello,

Em  F                                Em

oh, darling, you're almost part of me.

               F                            Em           F   Fm  C

Oh, oh, darling, you're all I'll ever see. ah, ah, ah.

 

+  D - C - G - C (2x)     +  D - C - D - C (2x)

 

    D                     C               G     - C

3.      It's such a rainy afternoon,      

D                     C            G     - C

    no point in going anywhere

    D                     C                    G     - C

   The sounds just drift across my room,    

 

    I wish this feeling I could share.

 

+  G - C - D - C     - G - C    - D - C - D - C

 

   D                   C      G       C

4.    It's such a rainy afternoon,

D                        C                    - G         C

    she sits and gazes from her       window,

D                  C               G    C

   Her mind tries to recall his face,     

D                  C               G    C

    the feeling deep inside her grows

 

        Am                                                G

Our reasons are the same but there's no-one we can blame,

                    F

for there's nowhere we need go,

               E                                           Am

and the only truth we know comes so easily.   - - -

          C                   G                    Am

The sound I have heard in your hello,

Em  F                                Em

oh, darling, you're almost part of me.

               F                            Em

Oh, oh, darling, you're all I'll ever see.

 

               C                  G                    Am

+  The sound I have heard in your hello,

    Em   F                            Em

    oh, darling, you're all I'll ever see.

                  F                                Em             F   Fm  C

    oh, oh, darling, you're almost part of me. Ah, ah, ah.

 

+  D - C - G - C     +  D - C - D - C (2x)        +  D - C - G - C (3x)

 

    (Moody Blues)