| The Merlin Café is empty
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| Save for a drunk or two
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| The waitress is waiting on going
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| And I’ve quit waiting on you
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| Midnight lovers are all the same
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| We dream in impossible ways
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| In the faded light we come alive
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| And hide away from the days
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| A song will last forever
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| A single dream goes far
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| Loneliness strips you down to the bone
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| That’s when you know who you are
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| 'Cause you pay the price for choosing
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| The night instead of day
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| It’s never just a case of losing
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| But throwing it all away
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| And I’ll write you a song in the morning
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| And I’ll sing it for you someday
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| I’ll say all the things I should have said
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| Before you went away
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| The joker in his reverie
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| Takes another glass of wine
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| The poet watches carefully
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| And writes another line
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| A joker’s just a dreamer
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| Who got lost along the way
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| And dreamers can be poets
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| In this crazy cabaret
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| I remember an old man passing
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| His time was slipping away
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| I was holding his hand and waiting
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| 'Cause there was something he wanted to say
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| He said, «Friends in time of trouble
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| They are the hardest to find
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| Hold on to them forever
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| And leave the rest behind»
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| And I’ll write you a song in the morning
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| And I’ll sing it for you someday
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| I’ll say all the things I should have said
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| Before you went away |