After All This Time
Elton John / Bernie Taupin
from the “Lestat” musical (2005)

C - G - G#dim - Am - D - C

     G              Gm
What taste is this upon my lips?
   F		  	A
A taste so sweet, what can that be?
     Cm             Gm
What is this scent upon the air
      A7                 D
That fills my lungs and comforts me?

      G		      Gm
And whispers low, how does it feel
    F              A
To savour up such just revenge
    Cm                Gm
To smell the fragrant sea of loss
      A7         D
And drunkenly inhale his pain?

    Eb		    Bb
How can it be your countenance
      Cm               Bb
Is stripped of all his dash and dare?
    Eb                 Bb
And what of your bold confidence
       A7                D
Could it have drowned in your despair?

    C          	    G
And after all this time
          G#dim		    Am
I wash my hands of your charade
     F              E
And celebrate your fall from grace
    Am7		  	D
Preserve that sad look on your face
     C			   G
And praise what God might manifest
           G#dim	  Am
Himself to beings such as us
     F		       E
For vengeance that at last is mine
      Am7	     D 	      C
Comes sweetly after all this time

   G		   Gm
If you'll allow me to recall
    F		      A
How my requests were swept aside
   Cm		  Gm
At every instance I beseeched you
  A7		D
I was shut out and denied

      G		     Gm
You shattered what I once believed
  F		A
From the moment you arrived
    Cm		   Gm
And now you wonder why I gloat here
   A7		    D
Revelling in your grand demise

	Eb	   Bb
You're arrogant beyond contempt
    Cm		      Bb
You beg to share my precious blood
 Eb		  Bb
I’d no sooner you in my veins
        A7		 D
Than to see you with the ones you love

repeat chorus

C - G - G#dim - Am - D - C