but this bed has seen it all.
The chair is looking lonely,
but this spin has seen it all.
There's a light on in the lobby
I'm staring out the window
as night peels off the sky
There's a cloud in the bottom
this land has been battered,
this land has been battered,
There's a joyful bird in the junipers
don't sound amused at all
Their feet on the boxcars,
I can't quite crack the code.
Deep in the heart of Texas,
there's a presidential poster
He stole eight years in the White House,
and now he's hangin' here,
still hauntin' this motel hall.
a little girl has lost her flower crown.
All decked out in a long white wedding gown.
Rusty nail in a paper cup
by the dawn's early light
Rusty nail in a paper cup
by the dawn's early light
Big semi -trucks in the parking lot
keep their engines on all night
A rainbow round my shoulder,
a red river rolling round the bend.
The country's gotten colder,
Looking over yonder's wall,
Looking over yonder's wall,
Somewhere out there beyond them all,
Must still be the land of the free.