Elephant Hotel

Eyes look up at the stars as she buries the

Dream drawn through a line in a yellow cab

Tom took flight down the river with his guitar and some photographs

Mary sang at the bar about bringing it home

But all those lies she told were stripped from the headlines

How can you bring yourself to sleep when no one’s singing lullabies?

And they stayed at the elephant hotel on the Jersey shoreline

Spirits wane like the moon when as it’s blinded by those

Sleepy sounds coming through on the radio

Mary sighed when she opened both her heart and the window

Tom’s in San Juan hauling prophecies,

His sense of place is constantly terrified

Writing letters to Mary that are overly symbolized

With dreams of the elephant hotel on the Jersey shoreline

Snakes in the grass, somewhere on the beach

Sins in the water made you lose your car keys

Circus collapsing, it’s hung from up high

Look down from their mountains, they’re watching us all die

Money will change hands and swap all our histories

Someone once told me that life ain’t a mystery

Your parents will fuck you up and you’ll fuck up your kids

But that doesn’t mean you should make an excuse not to live

Eyes look up at the stars as she buries the

Dream drawn through a line in a yellow cab

Tom took flight down the river with his guitar and some photographs

Mary sang at the bar about bringing it home

But all those lies she told were stripped from the headlines

How can you bring yourself to sleep when no one’s singing lullabies?

And they stayed at the elephant hotel on the Jersey shoreline