Palace Cafe

Charlie had no use for karma

But it was karma did him in

Had to bury all the evidence

And alert the next of kin

Now you can say

“Today that’s just how lives are lived

And lives are sometimes lost”

Sometimes the cost could come to nothing

Now nothing comes without a cost

Aw but evenings at the Palace Café

People passed the time so faithfully

As the music used to play

Yeah evenings at the Palace Café

Back before these shuttered storefronts

Long before these empty streets

You wouldn’t have thought to look for Charlie

Among the liars and the cheats

And in spite of winters where survival

Would have hardly passed for health

You learned to put your trust in sacrifice

And your faith in faith itself

Aw but meanwhile at the Palace Café

Thirty years went by and

People either died or moved away

Yeah meanwhile at the Palace Café

And the snow starts to fall