Half Moon Cafe Lyrics - Indigo Girls

"Half-Moon Cafe" is an Emily Saliers song, written during her 

sophomore year at Tulane (the same year she wrote "Play It Again, 

Sam"). The sole performance I have is from Live at WREK, on 27 

February 1989. 

Half-Moon Cafe 

At the Half-Moon Cafe, we drink to our lives 

Like pseudo-believers in love 

We've been through our holes-in-the-walls and the dives 

Where you drink to recall what you once had a vision of. 

And we talk of our lives in a prison 

Though we both know it's better to be 

Safe within our indecision 

Than taking the risk to be free. 

And you were to be a great poet 

And I'd find my fame in song 

But we somehow saw failure more closely 

Than fame all along. 

And now you manage a hamburger stand 

And I haven't found steady work yet 

And we meet here to talk and pretend 

That we know no regret. 

But how much is chance 

How much would you decide 

How much is murder of our dreams 

How much is suicide? 

So you ask of my latest Top 40 

And I ask of your latest great fiction 

As I step outside I see that the moon is full 

I have to laugh at the contradiction. 

Well, at least we can laugh at our dreams 

Though it's really much more bitter than sweet 

Sometimes through all of this fragmentation 

I imagine what it feels to be complete. 

But how much is chance 

How much would you decide 

How much is murder of our dreams 

How much is suicide? 

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