Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) - Ian Anderson

I sit in judgment down the market square

I have my favorite table and I have my chair

Natives are friendly and the sun flies high

All kinds of crazy waiters, they go drifting by

Hours last forever in the Calliandra shade

Conversation going nowhere and yet, everywhere

Kick off those sad shoes and let the bare toes tingle

Slip off that shoulder strapless and the thick black hair

Come, sit with me and take decaf designer coffee

Come, laugh and listen as the ragamuffin children play

Lame dog and a black cat, now, they shuffle in the shadows

You got cappuccino lip on a short skirt day

Electric afternoon and shrill cellphones are mating

Lame dog is dreaming, dreaming of a better life

Where bed is fluffy pillows, table scraps are fillet mignon

Flicked indiscreetly by the lazy waiter’s knife

Come, sit with me and take decaf designer coffee

Come, laugh and listen as the ragamuffin children play

Lame dog and a black cat, now, they shuffle in the shadows

You got cappuccino lip on a short skirt day

Hours last forever in the Calliandra shade

Conversation going nowhere and yet, everywhere

Kick off those sad shoes and let the bare toes tingle

Slip off the shoulder strapless and the thick black hair

Come, sit with me and take decaf designer coffee

Come, laugh and listen as the ragamuffin children play

Lame dog and a black cat, now, they shuffle in the shadows

You got cappuccino lip on a short skirt day

Come, sit with me and take decaf designer coffee

Come, laugh and listen as the ragamuffin children play

Lame dog and a black cat, now, they shuffle in the shadows

You got cappuccino lip on a short skirt day