Abandoned Luncheonette
Daryl Hall & John Oates * Track #6 On Abandoned Luncheonette
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- #1When The Morning Comes
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- #2Had I Known You Better Then
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- #3Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)
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- #4
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- #5I’m Just a Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like a Man)
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- #6Abandoned Luncheonette
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- #7Lady Rain
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- #8Laughing Boy
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- #9Everytime I Look at You
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Abandoned Luncheonette by Daryl Hall & John Oates
Performed by
Daryl Hall & John OatesProduced by
Arif MardinWrited by
Daryl HallAbout
Abandoned Luncheonette, the title track of Hall & Oates second studio album, is an allegory for the passage of time. Cleverly written, it follows a couple from youth to old age against the backdrop of the similarly aging abandoned luncheonette.
Abandoned Luncheonette Lyrics
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
Abandoned Luncheonette Q&A
Who wrote Abandoned Luncheonette's ?
Abandoned Luncheonette was written by Daryl Hall.
Who produced Abandoned Luncheonette's ?
Abandoned Luncheonette was produced by Arif Mardin.