[Verse 1]
Cafe society meets in front of Peet's
Goes on about the goings on up and down the street
Talk about evictions, talk about their dog
The drunkards in the dog park and the once and future fog, oh
The caliphate of perverts, the flight of refugees
Expanding ranks of homeless and the disappearing bees

[Chorus]
Cafe society—a sip of community
Cafe society—misery loves company
Hey—it's a way
To start the day

[Verse 2]
Cafe society talking up a storm
Talk about the Nasdaq and the Racing Form
Talk about the opera, talk about cars
Talk about the desert and the colonies on Mars
Talk about tsunamis and the crazies with their guns
Crazy-ass policemen shooting everything that runs

[Chorus]
Cafe society—a sip of community
Cafe society—misery loves company
And hey—it's a way
To start the day
[Verse 3]
Talk about beauty, talk about disease
The supersize container ships that ply the swelling seas
Somebody went to heaven. left some parts in the bay
But he's a friending of a friending—I don't know him anyway
Flapping lips of flatulence bellow "Vote for me"
Everything is spinning in the looming entropy

[Chorus]
Cafe society—a sip of community
Mmm, cafe society—misery loves company
And hey—it's a way
To start the day
Ah, cafe society—a sip of community
Mmm, cafe society—misery loves company
And hey—it's a way
To start the day