The Legendary Pink Dots - Hotel Noir lyrics
[The Legendary Pink Dots - Hotel Noir lyrics]
Two glasses on a glass-top table
Lights are low, the ashtray's full
He talks of all his conquests
Letters ringed with hearts and crosses
He left them in the drawer (at Hotel Noir)
Unanswered, yet he read them for
Her time and time again
She looked clean through him
And told him how she loved white horses
Riding on a swing and laying in a cornfield
On a warm summer's night she'd
Watch the dancing lights
Alone but never lonely -until now
He ordered whisky but the waiter
Walked clean through him
He sadly shook his head
And lit his fifteenth cigarette and slowly
Surely pictures formed he never could forget
Loretta sent him sea shells
Henrietta sent a rose
And Margaretta said they'd marry in a
Letter that he'd never answered
(left it in the drawer at Hotel Noir)
And she said how she loved
The sea at full moon
Running down a silver beach with silver
Ribbons trailing from her hands
She found a doorway in the sand
Where she'd store away her stones
Precious stones that could be diamonds
Just because they sparkled in rain
And there she'd sleep
And there she'd dream and there she died
The tide rolled backwards and it dried and
Left a headstone made of salt
The warm breeze turned to steam
And even the vegetables screamed
And screamed and screamed
He stretched his hand out just to touch her
-but she said she had to leave
Lights are low, the ashtray's full
He talks of all his conquests
Letters ringed with hearts and crosses
He left them in the drawer (at Hotel Noir)
Unanswered, yet he read them for
Her time and time again
She looked clean through him
And told him how she loved white horses
Riding on a swing and laying in a cornfield
On a warm summer's night she'd
Watch the dancing lights
Alone but never lonely -until now
He ordered whisky but the waiter
Walked clean through him
He sadly shook his head
And lit his fifteenth cigarette and slowly
Surely pictures formed he never could forget
Loretta sent him sea shells
Henrietta sent a rose
And Margaretta said they'd marry in a
Letter that he'd never answered
(left it in the drawer at Hotel Noir)
And she said how she loved
The sea at full moon
Running down a silver beach with silver
Ribbons trailing from her hands
She found a doorway in the sand
Where she'd store away her stones
Precious stones that could be diamonds
Just because they sparkled in rain
And there she'd sleep
And there she'd dream and there she died
The tide rolled backwards and it dried and
Left a headstone made of salt
The warm breeze turned to steam
And even the vegetables screamed
And screamed and screamed
He stretched his hand out just to touch her
-but she said she had to leave