"I used to hang out at a place called The Only Caf. I'm a bit of a creature of habit. Ritual and narrative are important to me, even as regards where I hang out and drink. ESPECIALLY as regards... Anyway, The Only is a tiny life raft of Lefties, bohemians, workers and students. A lot of chess playing goes on there... you know. It's a place where I used to go to speak in hushed tones about my life plans - music, travel, politics, philosophy - and be overly dramatic and angst ridden. By the time I wrote the song, it was imbued with such a hallowed history for me that it had achieved that metamorphosis that happens when a place becomes a story." --Ron Hawkins
"I used to hang out at a place called The Only Caf. I'm a bit of a creature of habit. Ritual and narrative are important to me, even as regards where I hang out and drink. ESPECIALLY as regards... Anyway, The Only is a tiny life raft of Lefties, bohemians, workers and students. A lot of chess playing goes on there... you know. It's a place where I used to go to speak in hushed tones about my life plans - music, travel, politics, philosophy - and be overly dramatic and angst ridden. By the time I wrote the song, it was imbued with such a hallowed history for me that it had achieved that metamorphosis that happens when a place becomes a story." --Ron Hawkins