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Abandoned Luncheonette

Released by Hall & Oates in 1973
From the Album: Abandoned Luncheonette |

This version of Abandoned Luncheonette was released by Hall & Oates in 1973.

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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


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Abandoned Luncheonette, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Hall & Oates. Some of the lyrics to Abandoned Luncheonette have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Hall & Oates and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Abandoned Luncheonette if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Abandoned Luncheonette" means the words set to the music of Abandoned Luncheonette, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Abandoned Luncheonette and the lyrics to Abandoned Luncheonette are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to Abandoned Luncheonette, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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