The Merlin Café

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[Verse 1]
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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
   G                   Am
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

[Verse 2]
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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

[Chorus]
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And I'll write you a song in the morning
         Dm                  F
And I'll sing it for you someday
     G                    Am
I'll say all the things I should have said
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Before you went away

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
    Am           F
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
  F              C
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

[Verse 4]
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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 times 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"

[Chorus]
         C                       Am
And I'll write you a song in the morning
         Dm                  F
And I'll sing it for you someday
     G                    Am
I'll say all the things I should have said
  F              G
Before you went away