Moonlight Motel

There's a place on a blank stretch of road where Nobody travels and nobody goes and the Deskman says these days 'round here Where two young folks could probably up and disappear into Rustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room Into the musty smell Of wilted flowers and lazy afternoon hours At the Moonlight Motel Now the pool's filled with empty, eight foot deep Got dandelions growin' up through the cracks in the concrete Chain-link fence half-rusted away Got a sign, says, "Children, be careful how you play" Your lipstick taste and your whispered secret I promised I'd never tell A half-drunk beer and your breath in my ear At the Moonlight Motel Well then, it's bills and kids and kids and bills And the ringing of the bell Across the valley floor through the dusty screen door Of the Moonlight Motel Last night I dreamed of you, my lover And the wind blew through the window and blew off the covers Of my lonely bed, I woke to something you said That it's better to have loved, yeah, it's better to have loved As I drove, there was a chill in the breeze And leaves tumbled from the sky and fell On a road so black as I backtracked To the Moonlight Motel She was boarded up and gone like an old summer song Nothing but an empty shell I pulled in and stopped into my old spot I pulled a bottle of Jack out of a paper bag Poured one for me and one for you as well Then it was one more shot poured out onto the parking lot To the Moonlight Motel