Intro: D Bm G A
Verse: 1
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There's a place on a blank stretch of road where
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Nobody travels and nobody goes and the
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Deskman says these days 'round here
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Where two young folks could probably up and disappear into
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Rustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room
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Into the musty smell
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Of wilted flowers and lazy afternoon hours
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At the Moonlight Motel
Verse: 2
D Bm
Now the pool's filled with empty, eight foot deep
G A
Got dandelions growin' up through the cracks in the concrete
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Chain-link fence half-rusted away
G A
Got a sign, says, "Children, be careful how you play"
G D
Your lipstick taste and your whispered secret
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I promised I'd never tell
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A half-drunk beer and your breath in my ear
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At the Moonlight Motel
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Well then, it's bills and kids and kids and bills
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And the ringing of the bell
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Across the valley floor through the dusty screen door
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Of the Moonlight Motel
Verse: 3
D Bm
Last night I dreamed of you, my lover
G A
And the wind blew through the window and blew off the covers
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Of my lonely bed, I woke to something you said
G A
That it's better to have loved, yeah, it's better to have loved
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As I drove, there was a chill in the breeze
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And leaves tumbled from the sky and fell
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On a road so black as I backtracked
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To the Moonlight Motel
G D
She was boarded up and gone like an old summer song
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Nothing but an empty shell
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I pulled in and stopped into my old spot
Instrumental: G A Bm
G D
I pulled a bottle of Jack out of a paper bag
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Poured one for me and one for you as well
D Bm
Then it was one more shot poured out onto the parking lot
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To the Moonlight Motel