From a White Hotel

From a White Hotel

Houston's under water, there's trouble all around, and the colorado river has washed out all the higher ground

The president's in the news again, sending his regards out on the wire

Way back in my traveling days I kissed a girl in San Antone, she was every faded fantasy I called upon when I was alone

But I'll leave that here in this old house with everything I own and set it on fire

Now I wasn't even walking yet when I started talking loud about getting out from underneath the shadows of the clouds

Out in some brand new world to feel the burning of the sun and my desire

Some days I wasn't thinking, some days I wasn't thinking straight, some nights I did enough cocaine to raise my heroes from their graves

I'd set it up in front of me and let it run around my brain and set it on fire

Then they sent me off to prison for telling half a million lies and living all around the world on bread that wasn't mine

I dragged every last excuse but I was burdened by the truth and I was tired

Well I ain't no kind of outlaw and I never claimed to be so you can take that cowboy shit and you can send it out to sea

On a great big wooden ship with all your love's debris and set it on fire

I been weary and I been lost

I seen the other side, I just never tried to get across

So take everything I said I was and everything you know I'm not and set it on fire

The world ain't too much different from the way it's always been, I guess the sky's a little darker and the storm is rolling in

But it's far enough away still that the wailing of the wind sounds like a choir

So don't let me leave your side tonight, don't let me slip away into all the miles and memories spun together in the haze

Take my wild and foolish fear that we've run through our better days and set it on fire

Lyrics - Kasey Anderson, Music - Hawks and Doves