Last Chance Motel

Album: Novum, 2017

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Most all of my life I’ve been pretty clean

But my best friend’s wife was the best gal I’ve ever seen

It was like she stepped straight out of the silver screen

And hit me right between the eyes

I guess I’m more appealing than I thought I was

’Cos the next thing I knew, her smile was flashing applause

And I was contemplating breaking that big law

Was that really such a surprise?

     Society keeps saying, ‘Whoa, hold it down!’

     Billboards are telling me, ‘Shop it around!’

     My life before her was some kind of hell

     Till those nights at the Last Chance Motel

The juggernaut rolled on and pretty soon

We were doing truck-stops in that old rundown room

And it looked like nothing could burst the balloon

And we got careless and discovered

     Society keeps saying, ‘Whoa, hold it down!’

     Billboards are telling me I gotta shop it around

     My life before her was some kind of hell

     Till those nights at the Last Chance Motel

     Society keeps saying, ‘Whoa, hold it down!’

     Billboards are screaming, ‘Shop it around!’

     My life before her was some kind of hell

     Till those nights at the Last Chance Motel

Got myself beaten up and ostracised

Punishment for running wild, and all those lies

She got a bullet between those big blue eyes

I left my heart at the Last Chance Motel

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