| Good evening sir and madam, I would like to introduce myself
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| I’ll be your waiter and your friend for the evening
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| My only purpose is to serve and if I might observe
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| Madam is looking quite spectacular this evening
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| And if I might suggest the trout is very, very fresh
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| And the chef has taken pains with the sauces
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| And the pastries are divine and we have a special wine
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| Brought directly back from Paris by our bosses
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| Am I alone in this? |
| Am I alone…
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| I am your waiter and I am ordinary and I am the wildest in the world…
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| I am your waiter and I am ordinary and I hope you enjoy your evening
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| The specials tonight are the fresh fish and a radish
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| Directly from the farm and the harbor
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| Though I must recommend the oysters Hollandaise
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| I’m told it increases your ardor
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| The coffee tonight is the Brazilian espresso
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| The liqueur the Tia Maria
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| I’m in a spin, I’m swept, I’m asexual sundered
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| Split apart in sweeping fields of color
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| Am I alone in this? |
| Am I alone…
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| I am your waiter and I am ordinary and I am the wildest in the world…
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| I am your waiter and I am ordinary and I hope you enjoy your evening
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| Whole waiting
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| Waiting and whole…
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| The walls of the walls they flicker and fade
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| Soft and hard in a swift parade
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| In shining rooms sublimely made
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| I am a waiter
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| A shadow flickers a face sweeps by
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| Transparent in the shining window
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| I am recognized by a stranger
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| I am someone that they knew
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| They know someone that I was
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| I must be that someone
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| But I’m not the evidence denied
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| That someone is not I
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| I am a waiter
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| The boxer trains, the baby cries, the waiter waits
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| All boxers train, all babies cry, all waiters wait
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| In towers and gutters and soft sweet rooms
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| Eating takeout or escargot
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| Or drinking coffee from a paper cup
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| Or Chateau Rothschild from a crystal goblet
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| Am I alone in this? |
| Am I alone…
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| I am your waiter and I am ordinary and I am the wildest in the world… |