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             Optical Illusion - Al Stewart
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 Notation by Adam Woolfe



 C       E/B      Am   Em         B        E
  In my darkest hour,    just before the dawn

 F              G            C
  There's no sound from the empty street 

 Em            B                  E
  But sleep won't seem to come to me

 C          E/B          Am   Em        B      E
  All your words in my head,    linger on and on

 F                G           C      Am        E          Am
  They've come to steal my time away,  til the night is gone.


 C          E/B         Am            Em        B         E
  I must be losing my shine, like an old dusty burgundy wine

 F     G         C          Em          B       E
  In a cellar cool and damp,   dull beneath a yellow lamp

 C       E/B         Am   Em             B        E
  No one turning the key,    to come and get me today 

 F            G        C         Am               E           Am
  The more I think about you now,   the more I'm feeling that way


Dm
  I see you there, everywhere

             Am        F   Esus4
  Optical illusion

Dm
  Telephone, let it ring

                  Am          E/G#  E 
  I don't want intrusion,  in my    life


 C         E/B           Am   Em                 B       E
  I know tomorrow I'll find,     there's nothing here at all

 F       G             C            Am           E         Am
  Just some trick your mind'll play,   with shadows on the wall


     flute solo - chords same as a verse


Dm
  I see you here, feel you near

             Am       F   Esus4
  Optical illusion

Dm
  Nothing real that I feel

               Am         E/G#   E
  Just some confusion, of my    time.


 C        E/B    Am   Em               B           E
  In my darkest hour,   when all the blinds were drawn

 F       G             C         Am         E         F
  You're just some mirage I saw,   just before the dawn.