Ballad of the Sad Café - Chris Connor

Midnight to lonely midnight

Each night until the dawn

The sad said, look what I had said

Their hearts said they just go on

They try to hard or else they cry

Too hard, they play too hard

Their blind mans game

Some our clever

And some our never

Whichever, it’s all the same

Music playing loud and blue

Telling, selling nothing new

The lyrics sang the drama of a story

Old as life and love

The ballad of the sad cafe

People laughing all around

There’s no laughter in the sound

A little proud and none too wis

The story’s there within thir eyes

The ballad of the sad cafe

A lonely conversation in the corner

Where no one is

Two strangers on a chance

Pretending new romance

To masquerade their need for sympathy

Keep that new day from the door

Fill that glass up once more

But time has said the party’s through

So add another chapter to the ballad of the sad cafe