Songwriter: Daryl Hall
Producer: Arif Mardin
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
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
more tracks from the album
The Atlantic Collection
- Lady Rain
- Had I Known You Better Then
- Can’t Stop The Music (He Played It Much Too Long)
- I Want to Know You for a Long Time
- It’s Uncanny
- Lilly (Are You Happy)
- I’m Just a Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like a Man)
- Past Times Behind
- When The Morning Comes
- I’m Sorry
- Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)
- You’re Much Too Soon
- Fall In Philadelphia
- Laughing Boy
- 70's Scenario
- Is It a Star
- Goodnight And Goodmorning
- Abandoned Luncheonette
- Beanie G And The Rose Tattoo
- She’s Gone
- Waterwheel
From the albums
- Abandoned Luncheonette (1973)
- The Atlantic Collection (1996)
Hall & Oates popular songs
- You Make My Dreams
- Rich Girl
- Maneater
- Out of Touch
- I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)
- She’s Gone
- Sara Smile
- Private Eyes
- Kiss On My List
- Adult Education
- Wait for Me
- Family Man
- When The Morning Comes
- One on One
- Say It Isn’t So
- Method of Modern Love
- Philly Forget Me Not
- Everytime You Go Away
- Do It for Love
- So Close
- Do What You Want, Be What You Are
- I’m Really Smokin’
- Waterwheel
- Alone Too Long