Abandoned Luncheonette Lyrics - Hall & Oates

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