B. Payne, B. Wray





You can open the window

Where the sunset meets the sea

Everything's for sale

Everything's for free



Sweet mother Mary

Sells her fortunes well

She's got all the answers

Just might save you from hell



Across the street at the bottomless cup

You can drink and drink but you can

Never get enough

You can have yours with sweet and low

You might even have the blues to go



One shot Johnny

Got a dog on a rope

Goin' from table to table

With a pocket full of hope



Rodeo riders and scarlet women

Lean against your walls

The show they're waitin' for

Is just three steps down the hall



The of king of jive looks like the queen of please

Makes his livin' on his hands and knees

You give and you give 'till you give it all

Oh, just think if these walls could talk, oh



I've climbed so high

And I've surely fell

Every story has a hero

Down at the Cadillac Hotel



El Dorado Slim

Works behind the desk

Either day or night

He can handle any request



J. C.'s screamin'

Bout turnin' water to wine

Got all in a big brown bag

In the lobby, just past nine, in an old Maytag



The homeless and haunted and street Van Gogh's

Lace their souls up tight

Hang your coat on a fin, you finally got in

Get ready for Cadillac night



Across the street at the bottomless cup

It's not about money, you can never get enough

A handful of honesty, a fist full of pride

It's not how you live, it's how you survive



I've climbed so high

And I've surely fell

Every story has a hero

Down at the Cadillac Hotel



I've climbed so high

And I've surely fell

Ten thousand feet to zero

Down at the Cadillac Hotel