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Sad Sack Cafe

from The Ego Has Landed by Phil Nice

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Back in the roaring 00s I used to frequent a cafe above a supermarket not far from where I live. The coffee should have been served in a gravy boat and the pastries were cardboard. Pre 05 it was smoky too, which all added to the ambience. Many a song lyric was penned in this grotty grotto, where I parked my ego at the door and enjoyed the feeling of being nobody, pretty much nowhere, scribbling on a napkin and dreaming up ideas and scenarios. The song actually predates this (about 1997 I think), so when I rediscovered this song in a rough version on an old minidisk, it was a bit like finding a missing piece.

Incidental and worthless trivia: The drums are played with chopsticks.

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Sad Sack Café

Sore heads and scrambled eggs
At the Sad Sack Café
Recycled coffee dregs
At the Sad Sack Café
Morning fog
A hair of the dog
To wash the bile away
And by the way
What day is it today?

Sausage, beans, broken dreams
At the Sad Sack Café
Bad news, worn out shoes
At the Sad Sack Café
You didn’t come for company
And the food is dressed to kill
If the salmonella don’t get you
Something else will

We’ve all been sitting here so long
We’re getting pretty long in the tooth
Life is stale and dry as last week’s apple pie
And flavourless as freshly unscrewed orange juice

The strongest tea in history
At the Sad Sack Café
Deep-fat-fried misery
At the Sad Sack Café
The outside world looks better
When you’ve sat here half the day
My depression gets depressed
And goes away

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from The Ego Has Landed, track released July 24, 2017
Karen Nice: Lead vocal
Phil Nice: Keyboards, basses, harmonium, guitars, banjolaika, drums, backing vocals

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