The Midnight Laundrette

Words & Music: Lamboo & Van Schoonhoven
Performed, produced and recorded by EUMETRIS

 

• Theme
• Just Divorced
• The Dreamer
• Just One Set Of Clothes
• The Poet
• Theme (reprise)
• Old Man

Theme
These moments I spent at the midnight laundrette
The folks that I’ve met I will never forget

Just Divorced
Had no choice
I never realized this implication
Had no choice
I’ve never been around such situation
Had no choice
I just had no choice

I just had no choice
I couldn’t deal with her high expectations
She dumped my suitcase in the street, no reconciliation
Had no choice
No reconsideration
I just had no choice
No evaluation

The Dreamer
On thin ice
That is where I’m going
On thin ice
Without truly knowing
Where to go
Minding every step
Scared of every gap
Fearing it will crack
It will drag me down into
The deep dark deep

Just one set of clothes
Hey, you fell asleep
Said the man in his underwear
He ain’t no creep
But apparently not aware
Of his appearance
And he sat back at his machine

The tossing and turning
Of his shirt and his pants
The tossing and turning
Of his socks and his vest
The tossing and turning
His yellow night-dress
Mesmerizing
Mesmerizing
Mesmerizing
Mes…me…ri…zing

Oh what a fright
The reflection in the machine
An awfull sight
He saw himself in his underwear
He felt embarrassed
And he felt ashamed
And he hid away
Behind the baskests and the buckets
And bins and boxes

The poet
The tall pale guy
in the long dark coat

Vocabulary
Way beyond his years
When he was young
He couldn’t find the tears
But the words came through
Just like dripping water
Every poem, every song
Just sounded like no other

Theme (reprise)
These moments I spent at the midnight laundrette
The folks that I’ve met I will never forget

Old man
Now you are old and grey
Meaning of your life is fading faster
Waiting for your dying day
For no one it will be a great disaster

STEMRA
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