[00:30.000] The Merlin Cafe is empty
[00:33.000] Save for a drunk or two
[00:36.000] The waitress is waiting on going
[00:39.000] And I've quit waiting on you
[00:41.000] Midnight lovers are all the same
[00:45.000] We dream in impossible ways
[00:48.000] In the fading light we come alive and hide away from the days
[00:59.000] A song will last forever
[01:02.590] A single dream goes forward
[01:06.000] Loneliness strips you down to the bone and that's when you know who you are
[01:12.000] Cause you feel depressed for choosing
[01:15.000] A night instead of day
[01:18.000] It's never just a case of losing but throwing it all away
[01:35.000] And I'll write you a song in the morning and I'll sing it for you some day
[01:41.000] I'll say all the things I should've said before you went away
[02:25.000] The joker in his reverie
[02:28.000] Takes another glass of wine
[02:31.000] The poet watches carefully
[02:35.000] And writes another line
[02:38.000] The joker's just a dreamer
[02:40.000] Who got lost along the way
[02:43.000] And dreamers can be poets in this crazy cabaret
[02:54.000] I remember an old man passing
[02:58.000] His time was slipping away
[03:01.000] I was holding his hand and waiting
[03:04.000] Cause there was something he wanted to say
[03:07.000] He said "Friends, in times of trouble, they are the hardest to find"
[03:14.000] "Hold onto them forever and leave the rest behind"
[03:31.000] And I'll write you a song in the morning and I'll sing it for you some day
[03:37.000] I'll say all the things I should've said before you went away