Abandoned Luncheonette

Everybody's high on consolation
Everybody's trying to tell me what's right for me
My daddy tried to bore me with a sermon
But it's plain to see that they can't comfort me

Sorry charlie for the imposition
I think i've got it, got the strength to carry on
I need a drink and a quick decision
Now it's up to me, ooh what will be

Chorus:
She's gone oh i, oh i'd
Better learn how to face it
She's gone oh i, oh i'd
Pay the devil to replace her
She's gone - what went wrong

Up in the morning look in the mirror
I'm worn as her tooth brush hanging in the stand
My face ain't looking any younger
Now i can see love's taken her toll on me

She's gone

Think i'll spend eternity in the city
Let the carbon and monoxide choke my thoughts away
And pretty bodies help dissolve the memories
But they can never be what she was to me

She's gone

Laughin' boy, guitar johnny's playing the blues so low
Laughin' boy, don't it make you want to cry
You know, i can't imagine you were the magic boy so long ago
Your life and dreams are broken, you hate the world but you can't
Live alone
Ain't that fine?
I'm your friend that knows you and i'd like to tell you
That i think your laugh's a lie

Laughin' boy, that's you layin' in the meadow
Laughin' boy, memories ought to make you cry
Don't let your mind surrender, 'cause i can't imagine days without
You no one wants to be without you
You'll find a way to help you play on
You won't pass the time alone
I'm your friend that knows you and i'd like to tell you
That i think your laugh's a lie

They sat in an abandoned luncheonette
Sipping imaginary cola and drawing faces in the tabletop dust
His voice was rusty from years as a sergeant on "this man's army"
They were old and crusty

She was twenty when the diner was a baby
He was the dishwasher, busy in the back, his hands covered with
Gravy
Hair black and wavy
Brilliantine slick, a pot - cleaning dandy,
He was young and randy

Day to day, to day... today
Then they were old, their lives wasted away
Month to month, year to year
They all run together
Time measured by the peeling of paint on the luncheonette wall

They sat together in the empty diner
Filled with cracked china
Old news was blowing across the filthy floor
And the sign on the door read "this way out", that's all it read
That's all it said

Were you ever so in love
You couldn't wait to get to sleep and dream
About the one you wish was there beside you
In the past few days i've grown
To love your giggles on the phone
And how we hug so nicely

Chorus:
And from the first time that i saw you
Has i known you better then
I would've said those three old words
And from the first time i saw you
Had i known you better then

Now i'm gonna move away
Another town another crazy day
Ooh i want to stay and maybe hang around you
Call it luck
Call it fate
Call it a shame that we have met so late
And loved so lightly

Chorus:
And from the first time that i saw you
Had i known you better then
I would've said those three old words
And from the first time that i saw you
Had i known you better then

Little girl what's your name
Now don't you go looking at me like that
You might see i'm ashamed - what's your name
Talk with me, won't you talk with me

Chorus:

Ooooooh pretty girl
It ain't too hip faking lines you ain't taking
But your lips make me say it that way
Now there's no use you resisting
This is the cradle thief insisting
I think you better let me have it my way
Fool around with me, come on mess around with me

Chorus:
Will you survive, learn to drive
I know you can't describe the dreams you want to be
Either stay or get away
I'm not playing around, can't you tell the way i'm squeezing
Your hand
I'm just a kid don't make me feel like a man

Silly girl i'm just playing
Now did you think that i'd be nuts enough to try an' pick you up
Don't you know it's a game - it's all a game i've been playing
But what'd you say your name was...
Walk with me... just around the corner baby maybe you could even
Try to talk to me
Damn you talk to me!
Damn you talk to me!