Early Bird Cafe

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[Verse 1]
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  Everybody's laughin' at the 
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Early Bird Café,
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I've been   hidden there since 
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yesterday and I believe I've lost 
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my way.
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  Charlotte's there in organdy and
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   Billy's there in suede,
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there’s money in their pockets and 
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  all the dues are paid.
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There's wine on every table   and
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 food on every plate,
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well, I hope I get there pretty 
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soon   before it gets too late.

[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Someone asked me what time it was
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 and I   told him it was now,
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he asked me just what that might 
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mean but   time would not allow.
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So, I gave away my watch to a 
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passing businessman,
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well, I hope he understands it now
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 cause I've   done the best I can.
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  It was getting early, so I 
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rushed away from there
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with that ancient earth beneath my
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 feet and new dust in my hair.

[Verse 3]
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Well, I ran on down the road a 
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while to the   other side of town,
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my clothes were gettin' wrinkled 
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and my socks were fallin' down.
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But I could not stop to pull them 
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up for fear that I'd be late,
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so, I kept on runnin' down the 
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road   until I saw the gate
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of the Early Bird Cafe, glowin'  
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 golden like the sun,
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everybody kept on singing, saying:
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 "Come on in, we've just begun!"
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[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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So, I went right in and I set 
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right down and I   ordered up some 
wine,
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the talk was fast and clever and 
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the women all were fine.
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  Charlotte asked me where I'd 
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been with her   jade and ivory eyes,
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I told her I'd been hung up with 
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some begger in disguise.
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Well, she laughed like temple 
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bells, kissed me on the cheek and 
said:
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  "You know it's hard to be alive 
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sometimes   but it's easy to be 
dead!"