Earlybird Cafe

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Everybody’s laughing at the Earlybird Café

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I’ve been headed there since yesterday, I believe I’ve lost my way

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Charlotte’s there in organdy, and Billy’s there in suede

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Money’s in their pockets, and all their dues are paid

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There’s wine on every table, and food on every plate

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And I hope I get there pretty soon, before it gets too late

Someone asked me what time it was, I told him it was now

He asked me just what that might mean, but time would not allow

So I gave away my watch to a passing businessman

I hope he understands me now

I’ve done the best I can

But it was getting early, as I rushed away from there

I got that ancient earth beneath my feel and new dust in my hair

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So I headed on down the highway to the other side of town

My clothes was getting wrinkled and my socks was falling down

But I could not stop to pull them up for fear that I’d be late

So I kept on running down the road until I saw the gate

Of the Earlybird Café glowing golden like the sun

Everybody they laughing and calling come on in we’ve just begun

So I went on in and I set right down and I ordered me up some wine

You know the talk was fast and clever, and the women all was fine

Charlotte asked me where I’d been with my jaded ivory eyes

I told her I’d been hung up with some beggar in disguise

She laughed like temple bells, she kissed me on the cheek and said

It’s hard to be alive sometimes

But it’s easy to be dead