Welcome to the Caf Shabu. Permit me to introduce you to some of our regulars. Starting on my immediate left, ladies and gentlemen, here in Caf Shabu, you'll note a poet, a man of words by trade. And yes, that's a refugee from an unnamed political philosophy, come here to spread his message of joy and peace amongst us. Thank you very much sir. Over here, next to him we see a lady who has traded-in a lifestyle of the rich and famous for work with underprivileged and exceptional children which I am sure makes her very pleased with herself, ladies and gentlemen. Sitting next to her a man of letters and words and moods. A man who spent most of his life deceiving himself and now finds himself facing six years in rehabilitation prison and a death sentence on the outside. Sitting next to him on a banquette, a ballerina. She's had two grapes, a raisin, and a chicklet, and she's full. In fact, she's been stuffed for years. Next to her are two spinsters knitting their way in and out of various predicaments coloure
d by the excesses of their ancestors. And close by them, some surreal painter's brooding over the very over-emphasis of colour-violence. Violence on the blue end of the scale. Next to them, two off-duty detectives checking each other out. Next door to the sugarholics, see them shivering, see them staring into the distance, see them growing, oh, see them go comatose. Insulin please, Maitre D'! On my immediate right several politicians smiling lizard-like, see them assure themselves that their status is indeed quo.
Rip up the cheques said the Maitre D'. See if I care. I do this for the company. I've got no-one to trust any secrets to but myself. In the basement, in the vault, in the attic on the walls are the pictures I take in part-payment for my time. And the waitress reminds you that in the backroom bathed in red, glowing with the speed of light that reflects the demands of the living for the dead, are our angels, a host at your service to meet your every need. So order up, the waitress said. Our great caf serves everything.
Cafe Shabu
John Cale
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A Dream Adelaide Amsterdam Andalucia Andalucia [Rehearsal][#] Antarctica Starts Here Antarctica Starts Here [Rehearsal][#] Been There Done That Big White Cloud Black Rose Bring it on Up Buffalo Ballet Changes Made Charlemagne Child's Christmas in Wales Chinese Envoy Cleo Damn Life Darling I Need You Dead Or Alive Dirty Ass Rock'n'Roll Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dying On The Vine Emily Everytime The Dogs Bark Faces And Names Fade Away Tomorrow Fairweather Friend Fear Is A Man's Best Friend Fighter Pilot Forever Changed Ghost Story Gideon's Bible Graham Greene Graham Greene [Rehearsal][#] Gun Guts Half Past France Hanky Panky Nohow Heartbreak Hotel Hello It's Me Hello There Here She Comes Now I Believe I Keep A Close Watch I'm Not The Loving Kind If You Were Still Around Images In The Library of Force It Wasn't Me King Harry Lady Godiva's Operation Legs Larry At The Television Centre Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed Macbeth Magic & Lies Magic & Lies Momamma Scuba Mr. Wilson Nobody But You On A Wedding Anniversary Open House Overture Paris 1919 Please Rise, Sam and Rimsky Korsakov Riverbank Russian Roulette Santies Satellite Walk Secrets Ship Of Fools Slip Away (A Warning) Small Town Song Of The Valley Starlight Strange Times In Casablanca Streets Of Laredo Style It Takes Taking It All Away Taking Your Life In Your Hands The Endless Plain of Fortune The Gift The Jeweller The Sleeper The Soul of Carmen Miranda The Soul Of Carmen Miranda, for ensemble There Was A Saviour Thoughtless Kind Trouble With Classicists Vigilante Lover White Light / White Heat Who's In Charge? Wilson Joliet Work You Know More Than I Know
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