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