My mother cleans Elvis' house

Yeah she and everybody else

Moved to Memphis for the King.

She used to work at the Motel 6

Now she gets free guitar picks

That's how I learned to play and sing.



I've been playing the hotel scene

Living on my mother's dreams

Strumming underneath the disco lights

All kinds of people come in

We've got this psychic from Beijing

She read my cards right there that night



And then I dreamed that my soulmate

Was a motel clerk in Jersey

Who has not met me

So why am I in this

Hotel in Memphis

When I just want to kiss

Somebody tonight



My mother doesn't seem to mind that

Elvis isn't still alive

She just toils in memory

She's no hippie, she's no flake

She just thinks that it's her fate

And who am I to disagree



Everybody's got a heart to follow,

Everybody's got to make that call

As I look around the hotel scene

I'm doing pretty good with my band

People come shake my hand

But true love is what I need



So I dream about my soulmate

Who's a motel clerk in Jersey

Who has not met me so why am I in this

Hotel in Memphis

When I just want to kiss

Somebody tonight



So I'm gonna take the Greyhound

All the way to Jersey

I hope you meet me 'cause

I don't care if I ever get famous

I just want to kiss somebody tonight