Some things are just better

when you do them with someone else

So listen to me please

it’s for the good of your health

Like waking up in winter

or smoking in the bath

Enjoy what you’ve got while it lasts

We’d been up in the mountains

Where the air was cool and clear

And the engine’s scream for mercy

Was all that you could hear

Past mansions on the hillsides

And bursts of Spanish broom

We came down to Barcelona

And found ourselves a room

We sat out on the fire escape

Until the day was done

That was then and this is now

I’m taking tea for one

Easter time, I was trying to run

Away from it all

I was trying to be a “hero”

Beside the Berlin wall

But the wall was an attraction

For the millions like me

Who come to stare at bullet holes

And imagine history

Now history’s repeating

And the fire bell has rung

Let’s all forget the past again

Let’s all have tea for one

Tea for one

I’ll have tea for one

It’s not fair to say

I’ve turned my back on anyone

You didn’t want me anyway

When all’s said and done

You say, let’s move on

And I’ll have tea for one

Farewell to Dolce Vita

And goodbye Betty Blue

It’s the end of cafe culture

And weekend rendezvous

Who needs coffee anyway?

It’s bitter and it’s black

Bonsoir to joie de vivre

To Freude and the craic

There’s no more drinking white wine

In the red setting sun

I’ll just leave and take what’s mine

And I’ll have tea for one -

Tea for one…