Songs for
Guess I'll Have to Write My Own

Track 13: Heartbreak Hotel
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Let me sing you a story of lost hopes and dreams
Let me sing you the ashes of old magazines
I'll tell you a tale you know much too well
Of the sweet, lazy life at the Heartbreak Hotel.

A sage of the stage who sang folk without fame
Told me, "Put out the fire or add to the flames."
Now he sings country music or whatever sells
And they peddle his CD's at Heartbreak Hotel

A statesman of vision who made me believe
Preached Justice for All, or were my ears deceived?
He now sits in silence for he bid me farewell
He consults on retainer at Heartbreak Hotel.

My best friend in school always did what was best
From peace to resistance, and all of the rest
But nothing much changed, and my friend knew defeat
Now he finds the grass greener in his hotel suite.

So let me sing simple sagas of fictions and hopes
And the pale, wrinkled pages of old history books
The clerk at reception has been more than kind
We weren't best or brightest, merely there at the time.

To have seen in our lifetimes such vast misery
Then to simply switch stations on the cable TV
Is hardly the tale we expected to tell.
But it's live on the stage at the Heartbreak Hotel.

©Copyright 2001 BMI

Track 1: Guess I'll Have to Write My Own
Track 2: Something New
Track 3: Sons of Immigrants
Track 4: Today
Track 5: Sing You a Song
Track 6: From the Very Start
Track 7: Breanna
Track 8: McKenzie
Track 9: French Pete
Track 10: Zachary
Track 11: I'll Still Be There
Track 12: It's Been a Long Time
Track 13: Heartbreak Hotel