Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula,
Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelors
She's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes,
Well, it's just an invitation to the blues
And you feel just like Cagney, she looks like Rita Hayworth
At the counter of the Schwab's drugstore
You wonder if she might be single, she's a loner and likes to mingle
Got to be patient, try and pick up a clue
She said How you gonna like 'em, over medium or scrambled?,
You say Anyway's the only way, be careful not to gamble
On a guy with a suitcase and a ticket getting out of here
It's a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes
This ain't nothing but an invitation to the blues
But you can't take your eyes off her, get another cup of java,
It's just the way she pours it for you, joking with the customers
Mercy mercy, Mr. Percy, there ain't nothing back in Jersey
But a broken-down jalopy of a man I left behind
And the dream that I was chasing, and a battle with booze
And an open invitation to the blues
But she used to have a sugar daddy and a candy-apple Caddy,
And a bank account and everything, accustomed to the finer things
He probably left her for a socialite, and he didn't 'cept at night,
And then he's drunk and never even told her that her cared
So they took the registration, and the car-keys and her shoes
And left her with an invitation to the blues
'Cause there's a Continental Trailways leaving local bus tonight, good evening
You can have my seat, I'm sticking round here for a while
Get me a room at the Squire, the filling station's hiring,
And I can eat here every night, what the hell have I got to lose?
Got a crazy sensation, go or stay? now I gotta choose,
And I'll accept your invitation to the blues
Invitation to the Blues
Holly Cole
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Lyrics by Holly Cole
2000 Miles A Cottage for Sale Alison Alison [#] All the Pretty Little Horses Almost Like Being in Love Blame It on My Youth Calling You Christmas Blues Christmas Song Christmas Time Is Here Come Fly with Me Cruisin' Deck the Halls Dedicated to the One I Love Downtown Fragile Get Out of Town Ghosts Girl Talk God Only Knows Heart of Saturday Night Honeysuckle Rose How Long Has This Been Going On? I Want You If I Were a Bell Little Boy Blue Losing My Mind Loving You Moonglow My Baby Just Cares for Me My Foolish Heart Neon Blue On the Street Where You Live On the Sunny Side of the Street [*] Onion Girl Purple Rain Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) Romantically Helpless Santa Baby Sleigh Ride Sweet Blindness Take Me Home Talk to Me Baby That Old Black Magic The Christmas Blues The Christmas Song Too Darn Hot Train Song Trust in Me Waters of March World Seems to Come and Go
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