Late Late Show Lyrics

I remembered this job from long ago

I showed movies, as college friends know

Art house films, a soul patch scene

People who would know every classic of screen

Always after the one AM show

On the weekends once the customers go

Private shows for cineaste friends

We didn't care that a good thing always ends

Come on by, a movie and classic

Come on by, it will be fantastic

After everyone goes, it's our late, late show

Discussed for hours what did Fellini mean

With a Christ statue over Rome scene

Debate got hot, Godard or Truffaut

Pumped with passion into sunrise we'd go

Talk past dawn, a cheap grill downtown

Families sitting for their Sunday hash browns

Young and confident, we saw our fates

Art! revolution! Not to sail domestic straits

Come on by a movie and classic

Come on by, it will be fantastic

After everyone goes, it's our late, late show

Then one day, it was real jobs and real grad schools

Memories and fights left behind, our paradise for fools

Wife and I riffing on Antonioni

Blow-up fronted by a fatuous phony

Why discuss mime tennis on a lawn

We don't care and the kids are up at dawn

Over hash browns I think was that real

Risible youth denying life's deal

Hold that thought, kids, you know you gotta share

And I hear laughter from a table over there

Come on by a movie and classic

Let's get lost and remember fantastic

After childhood goes, it's our late, late show

Come on by and find a new classic

Come on by, it will be fantastic

After childhood goes, it's our late, late show

Come on by, our autumn of content

Come on by, kids are out, Cats for rent

The movie we show now, it's our late late show