Hall Amp Oates Abandoned Luncheonette Lyrics

Abandoned Luncheonette Lyrics

They sat in an Abandoned Luncheonette



 sipping imaginary cola and drawing faces in the tabletop dust



 His voice was rusty from years as a sergeant on "this man's army"



 they were old and crusty



 



 She was twenty when the diner was a baby



 He was the dishwasher, busy in the back, his hands covered with



 gravy



 Hair black and wavy



 Brilliantine slick, a pot - cleaning dandy,



 He was young and randy



 



 Day to day, to day... today



 then they were old, their lives wasted away



 Month to month, year to year



 they all run together



 time measured by the peeling of paint on the luncheonette wall



 



 They sat together in the empty diner



 filled with cracked china



 Old news was blowing across the filthy floor



 and the sign on the door read "this way out", that's all it read



 that's all it said