The All​-​Night Café

from How I Lost It All by The New Birds of America

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Theresa Moritz' lyrics are inspired by and drawn upon the poem "The All-Night Café" by A. F. Moritz from The Ruined Cottage (1993, Wolsak and Wynn)

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He was writing by the hour in all-night Bloor café.
He had all the things a poet needs at hand about him.
The neon turned cigars and cups and scattered papers blue.
He heard a sign, a sign that said, Café, Café, Café…

I love to see him writing in an all-night Bloor café.
He writes directions on how to leave your youth behind.
And he knows it’s just a cut-out of live of life
He’s living, and he says, no more illusions…

And only death can keep him from an all-night Bloor café.
And death is all that’s waiting if he knocks the cut-outs down.
And I almost tap the glass to catch his eye
Cause we’ll lose him if he just goes on an on this way…

Still I love to him writing in an all-night Bloor café.
He turns with each new dreaming gracefully, so gracefully.
If death is rigor and age is growing hard,
As long as he keeps striving, this one is saved…

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from How I Lost It All, released April 15, 2022
Music by Blaise Moritz, Lyrics by Theresa Moritz
Recorded in Toronto, November 23, 2018
by Jon Mychal at The Sonic Spa

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