The Merlin Cafe-Allan Taylor

[ti:The Merlin Cafe] [ar:Allan Taylor] [al:Down the Years I Travelle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Merlin Cafe - Allan Taylor (艾伦·泰勒) [00:30.01]The Merlin Cafe is empty [00:32.49] [00:33.28]Save for a drunk or two [00:35.26] [00:36.19]The waitress is waiting on going [00:38.70] [00:39.21]And I'll quit waiting on you [00:41.93] [00:42.63]Midnight lovers are all the same [00:45.48]We dream in impossible ways [00:48.53]In the fading light we come alive [00:51.73]And hide away from the days [00:54.94] [00:59.72]A song will last forever [01:02.40] [01:02.95]A single dream goes forward [01:05.12] [01:06.28]Loneliness strips you down to the bone [01:09.11]And that's when you know who you are [01:11.57] [01:12.18]'Cause you feel depressed for choosing [01:14.52] [01:15.37]A night instead of day [01:17.80] [01:18.48]It's never just a case of losing [01:21.78]But throwing it all away [01:23.89] [01:35.35]And I'll write you a song in the morning [01:38.46]And I'll sing it for you some day [01:41.10] [01:41.66]I'll say all the things I should've said [01:44.89]Before you went away [01:48.33] [02:25.59]The joker in his reverie [02:28.37]Takes another glass of wine [02:30.74] [02:31.62]The poet watches carefully [02:34.64]And writes another line [02:36.76] [02:37.93]The joker's just a dreamer [02:39.89] [02:40.75]Who got lost along the way [02:43.56] [02:44.24]And dreamers can be poets [02:47.07]In this crazy cabaret [02:50.81] [02:55.06]I remember an old man passing [02:58.20]His time was slipping away [03:00.73] [03:01.26]I was holding his hand and waiting [03:04.31]'Cause there was something he wanted to say [03:07.25]He said friends in times of trouble [03:09.78] [03:11.16]They are the hardest to find [03:14.19]Hold onto them forever [03:17.07]And leave the rest behind [03:19.66] [03:31.18]And I'll write you a song in the morning [03:34.09]And I'll sing it for you some day [03:36.68] [03:37.38]I'll say all the things I should've said [03:40.59]Before you went away