IntroDBmGAVerse 1DBm
There's a place on a blank stretch of road where
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Nobody travels and nobody goes and the
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Deskman says these days 'round here
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Where two young folks could probably up and disappear into
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Rustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room
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Into the musty smell
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Of wilted flowers and lazy afternoon hours
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At the Moonlight Motel
Verse 2DBm
Now the pool's filled with empty, eight foot deep
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Got dandelions growin' up through the cracks in the concrete
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Chain-link fence half-rusted away
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Got a sign, says, "Children, be careful how you play"
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Your lipstick taste and your whispered secret
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I promised I'd never tell
DBmA half-drunk beer and your breath in my ear
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At the Moonlight Motel
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Well then, it's bills and kids and kids and bills
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And the ringing of the bell
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Across the valley floor through the dusty screen door
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Of the Moonlight Motel
Verse 3DBm
Last night I dreamed of you, my lover
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And the wind blew through the window and blew off the covers
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Of my lonely bed, I woke to something you said
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That it's better to have loved, yeah, it's better to have loved
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As I drove, there was a chill in the breeze
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And leaves tumbled from the sky and fell
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On a road so black as I backtracked
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To the Moonlight Motel
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She was boarded up and gone like an old summer song
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Nothing but an empty shell
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I pulled in and stopped into my old spot
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I pulled a bottle of Jack out of a paper bag
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Poured one for me and one for you as well
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Then it was one more shot poured out onto the parking lot
GADBmGAD
To the Moonlight Motel
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.