Do you ever feel like you're living in a beat poet's nightmare

Like you're french kissing your despair

Suffocating in the open air

If I was on the road, Jack, when I got home

I would burn that car to the ground

Straight to the ground now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Now



If I was a sinner and I walked upon your water

Would you know my burning tower

or would you save me with your locks of gold

I wait for you in ruin

Captured at the window

Faded like a photograph

Faded like a nervous laugh



And I would love a room

I'd love a room

I'd love a room with a view



Did you ever feel like you're living in a time without a reason,

a year without a season,

another day cut by the killing joke

If I was on the outside looking at the inside

I would burn this place to the ground

Straight to the ground, now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Now



If I was a lonely man and I walked upon your growing land

Would you hear my call in hunger

Would you keep me from going under

I wait for you beside myself

captured at the window

Faded like a photograph

Crooked like a last laugh



And I would love a room

I'd love a room

I'd love a room with a view



Happy to be alive

So low it hurts to breathe in

Close to you

It's close to me

Close enough that it's something to believe in



Do you remember to turn out the lights when the show's over

The show's over

and it gets easier

And after this, and after this

And after this



I would love a room

I'd love a room

I'd love a room with a view



It's easier

It's easier