Karma Hotel (Taken From The Jo Whiley Show on Radio 1)

Welcome to the Karma Ho

Spooks are here now on Radio One

About to smack your system with Karma Hotel

How you wan' it

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite casts its own spell

Karma Hotel lobby, and I'm lookin' for enlightenment

Concierge, where can I go to find adventure and excitement?

Played of all the casinos, bars, and orgies, they bore me

Here's aNother twenty, now what you got for me?

He Stared at me hard, finally dipped in his drawer

Flipped the elevator keys and said "Go to the thirteenth floor"

So in a flash I was there, cold knock on the door

Bombarded by cigar smoke, the smell of Hell and War

"You wanted adventure, now you got it boy, don't show me no tears"

"This is the place where you face your desires and fears"

In each of his hands was a revolver, forty-five in the left

Twenty-two in his right, Russian roulette's the game tonight

And there's no escape, so don't try to Run

But I'll fill your life with bliss if you're alive

Once the death wheel has spun

"Choose your gun"

"Gimme the forty-five", I said with a smile

"Here's a shiny silver bullet, might as well go out in style"

Put one in the cylinder, spun it, aimed at my dome and slowly clicked it

Now I feel the adrenaline rush that's got me so addicted

Motivatin' me to play, a second time, then a third time

Fourth time I clicked and popped

Boom! Money shot

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite casts its own spell

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite casts its own spell

Peep the gamblin' scene

Gettin' dough as he rambled the fiends

Exotic queens dancin' with tamborines

And the Gambler's theme

One eye open, one eye scopin'

Watchin' his gat, watchin' his back

Watchin' his stack, watchin' his wrap

Watchin' his deck, as people Notice like

"Oh damn! Boy just won a hundred grand!"

"Where? Where?" "Oh my God, at Table Seven, did you see him yet?"

Look at his chips, all that green growin' like Chia Pets

Two out the handle and he can't stop

The more and more the fans flock, the more the dice out his hands drop

So it seems like, he got his whole shit set

But his son is gangbangin' in the park, holdin' a rain check

Meanwhile, somehow, somethin' is kinda eerie

About this place that he seems to be payin' a permanent visit to

Every face that he sees, expressionless, like a mannequin

He really wants to leave, but stays cool, to avoid panickin'

He's gettin' the same attention, but somethin' seems sorta different

He's wrinklin' up, losin' weight, and his body's Startin' to stiffen

Now he Notices years have passed in one night

He made more cash than we could imagine, but never lived life, come on

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite casts its own spell

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite casts its own spell

Pleased to meet you, Macristo's the name

Pretty young thing

Come into my room, I'd like to play a game, it's called "Doom"

Beat the friends and family

Gotta give yourself to me

By the way, what's your name?

Eve

Check the scenery

Looks so happy, at the same time

The way they're entwined seems so good it's a crime

Believe in me as I believe in you, live it up tonight

Alright, I feel I've got all of my life!

So true, pleasure and pain, transform lust to thrust

One night stands of hot sex, the bottle entrusts

Oh, invitation accepted, too good to reject it

So I join in unprotected

Expected, one life to live, don't respect it

Respect what?

Ooh, you poor child you've been neglected

Cristo why do I feel so cold?

It's like each time I climax you take a piece of my soul

You could never leave, you made a pact with the Devil himself

Infected in my family of trust, my daughter of lust

So what you're tellin' me is I can't leave!

And I'm trapped here for eternity, oh!

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite casts its own spell

Welcome to the Karma Hotel

Looks like heaven but could be hell

Where pleasant screams transform to yells

And every suite, every suite

Welcome to the Karma Ho

Oh oh say hotel, motel, Holiday Inn

And if your girl Starts acting up then you take her friend

Welcome to the Karma Ho

Say hotel, motel, Holiday Inn

And if your girl Starts acting up then you take her friend