It's Later Than You Think

instrumental

E-Cabaret / When the Morning Comes

Eschew your obligations

Screw the ramifications

Don’t fall for an early bed

Sooner or later you might be dead

What good is responsibility

if you can’t shirk it occasionally?

Tell the boss to get bent

you’ll find some way to pay the rent

Put down the tablet, 

the remote and the phone

Come hear the music play

Come hear the music play

The night ‘aint what it used to be

we’ve sold it out entirely

The couch is no substitute

for a bit of champagne and a tailored suit

Who cares what the next day holds

you’ll learn as it all unfolds

The night sparkles like a gem

Oh, your life looks very different at 3 a.m.

C’mon, now people stop messing around

Don’t let your life slip away

C’mon, now people stop messing around

Don’t let your life slip away

Oh, life is a horror show

but it doesn’t have to be quite so

Stop, with all those plans

Oh, come on now and take my hand

Oh, life is a horror show

but it doesn’t have to be quite so

Stop, don’t behave

Oh, c’mon now get a bit depraved

It’s 5 a.m.

and I’m creeping in

after another show

Where it all leads

and where it might end

well it’s hard to know

High on self deception

in love with my reflection

denial is the sweetest drug

As night gives way

to the longest day

Oh, I still have a pretty good time

Where will I be 

oh, when the morning comes

Where will I be

oh, when the morning comes

Middle-aged lover

meet under me under the covers

It’s never been so sweet

But still I’m conflicted

because it’s age restricted

so we’re oh so discreet

All this desire

is like wildfire

don’t want to put it out

I maintain

that all is pain

But I still have a pretty good time

Where will I be 

oh, when the morning comes

Where will I be

oh, when the morning comes

Army Life

You know I never really wanted a job

that’s why you’ll still find me here

Instead of working at the 9 to 5

Adventure is my career

I do more before 3 a.m.

than most people do all day

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of tears

and be all that I can be 

At night I go to war

against a tired indie scene

Breaking hearts and taking names

A tuxedoed killing machine

I want to live my entire life

like a soldier on weekend leave

Spend my money on foolish things

and wake up with Genevieve 

The quiet civilian life

is not the life for me

I’ll be storming foreign lands

While you watch it all on TV

I got the guts got the discipline

got a manifest destiny

I got the uniform I got the boys (and girl!)

I’ll die for this country

So remember me remember me remember me

I’m going down

Remember me remember me remember me 

I’m going down

I’m going down down down

I’m going down down down

I’m going down down down

I’m going down down down

The End of Everything

I cry to the darkest angel, oh she knows me well

and I’ve wandered into my own private circle of hell

Will the sun come up tomorrow?

Will the moon rise?

I don’t know

I’ve walked away from everything I’ve ever known

for the tantalizing scene of a man alone

But the future is a desert

and happiness 

just a mirage

Is this the end

Is this the end

Is it the end of everything?

Led astray again by that same ennui

emboldened by a most persistent vanity

A flash of false promises

A siren call

from the rocks

Standards are so high for a spirit so low 

In the blackest spring where nothing good can grow

The crocus has been blown out

I’m lost 

in the flood

Is this the end

Is this the end

Is this the end of everything? 

Is this the end

Is this the end

Is this the end of everything? 

Love 

will it see me through?

I don’t know what to do

with all this desire

Love 

did we waste the years?

I’ve captured all my tears

I want to give them all to you

Is this the end

Is this the end

Is this the end of everything? 

Is this the end

Is this the end

Is this the end of everything? 

Out of My Skin

Life is it’s own reward

We are racing toward the sun tonight

Time sweeps it all away

So I live only for today

I exist out of frame

between the days and the pain

and the ecstasy 

Jet setter jet lagged

I run myself ragged

it’s a wild spree

Sometimes I feel like I’m jumping

out of my skin

Sometimes I feel like I’m jumping

out of my skin

Life is for the living

and it’s finally starting to sink in

Sometimes I feel like I’m jumping

Out of my skin

Out of my skin

Tears running down my face

Soon they’ll be replaced by rays of light

Night it will be danced away

And on with such a strange display 

of good and bad choices

and conflicting voices

the yin and yang

I shrink from convention

I live for the tension 

the sturm und drang!

Sometimes I feel like I’m jumping

out of my skin

Sometimes I feel like I’m jumping

out of my skin

Life is for the living

and it’s finally starting to sink in

Sometimes I feel like I’m jumping

out of my skin

All I want

is to live this life

in the clothes

the I wore last night

All I want 

is to live this life

in the clothes

that I wore last night

When Things Fall Apart

When things fall apart

I will come from the night like a dove

When the shadow descends

I will crawl for your love

When things fall apart

and passions are hot to betray

When the Gangman waves

these are dangerous days

Love, whatever happens I know

I won’t let go

of your hand

Oh my love

Whatever happens I know

I won’t let go

of your hand

Come hell or sorrow

if there’s no tomorrow

Oh, my love

When things fall apart 

and the heart of the world still won’t break

I will come to your bed

I will kiss you awake

When things fall apart

and we wander like children in vain

Under bloodthirsty skies

and our better angels in chains

Love, whatever happens I know

I won’t let go

of your hand

Oh my love

Whatever happens I know

I won’t let go

of your hand

Come hell or sorrow

if there’s no tomorrow

Oh, my love

When things fall apart

when things fall apart…

My revenge on the world is you and me

When I’m wrapped in your arms I’m safe from all injury

Love, whatever happens I know

I won’t let go

of your hand

Oh my love

Whatever happens I know

I won’t let go

of your hand

Come hell or sorrow

if there’s no tomorrow

Oh, my love

Hit the Floor

Stranded in suburbia

for 25 odd years

and all the things you used to do

come back on a wave of tears

but there’s a Hacienda out there somewhere

or a Studio 54

sometimes it’s very necessary...

To hit the floor floor floor floor

to hit the floor floor floor floor...

Captive to the ordinary

for longer than you care

You played by all those sacred rules

but now it doesn’t really seem fair

That he left you there at midlife

He walked right out the door

Ignore time’s hand 

and make your stand

And hit the floor, floor, floor, floor

Hit the floor, floor, floor, floor...

The night hasn’t meant

what it used to mean

for so long - for so long...

Stranded in suburbia

for 25 odd years

and all the things you used to do

come back on a wave of tears

but there’s a Hacienda out there somewhere

or a Studio 54

sometimes it’s very necessary

To hit the floor floor floor floor

to hit the floor floor floor floor...

The night hasn’t meant

what it used to mean

for so long - for so long...

1 a.m.

It's getting late

but I don't want to know

It's one in the morning

but I'm ready to go

You can stay at home

and you can watch TV

or you can get in the car

and you can come with me

C'mon, Baby

don't you hesitate

When you look at me

I can hardly wait

All I want is eternity

the night, the moon

and your eyes

on me

My heart is racing

and this night I am chasing

Don't tell me, I don't want to know

My heart is racing

and this night I am chasing

Don't tell me, I don't want to know

Mi amor

tonight, my love, tonight

Mi amor

tonight, my love, tonight

It's getting late

it’s a quarter to three

And I’m lit up

like a Christmas tree

Pretty soon 

we’ll see the light

but I refuse

to say goodnight

My heart is racing

and this night I am chasing

Don't tell me, I don't want to know

My heart is racing

and this night I am chasing

Don't tell me, I don't want to know

For You

Don’t hide

beneath the blankets of the day

Don’t slide

when night calls on you to play

Don’t tire

don’t give up

Don’t expire

don’t grow up

Please don’t fade away

Because you sparkle and you glimmer

Oh, you move me when you shimmer

You, my brightest star

Twenty years from now

Oh, don’t ask yourself how

How did life go so wrong?

If your mouth gets dry

I will fill your cup

If your lids get heavy 

I will wake you up

Everything I do I do for you

If the day gets long 

I will understand

If the night gets lonely

I will hold your hand

Everything I do I do for you

Everything

Everything

Everything I do I do for you... 

Everything

Everything

Everything I do I do for you...

For you...

For you...

For you...

Golden Age

Find out who you are

down at the hotel bar

A moment or a few

down at 4 Rue d'Anjou

With nothing on your mind

Frozen there in time

The light is slightly blue

sacrosanct and true

Kisses and champagne

the high life and the pain

You know it all so well

’til morning breaks the spell

But when the sun is new

it rises just for you

The nightingale still sings

and beats its tender wings

The night it falls

the day it breaks

Your tears they drop

Your heart it aches

But then you recall

you don’t regret a single day

In this Golden Age

In this Golden Age

In this Golden Age

In this Golden Age

You don’t have to try

to get it so right

When the day defeats

You look to the night

Aging dandy boys

and flapper girls, too

Snuff out your despair

like a smoke under your shoe

The night it falls

the day it breaks

Your tears they drop

Your heart it aches

But then you recall

you don’t regret a single day

The night it falls

the day it breaks

Your tears they drop

Your heart it aches

But then you recall

you don’t regret a single day

In this Golden Age

In this Golden Age

In this Golden Age

In this Golden Age

You don’t have to try

to get it so right

When the day defeats

You look to the night

Aging dandy boys

and flapper girls, too

Snuff out your despair

this time belongs to you

The night it falls

the day it breaks

Your tears they drop

Your heart it aches

But then you recall

you don’t regret a single day

The night it falls

the day it breaks

Your tears they drop

Your heart it aches

But then you recall

you don’t regret a single day

In this golden age...