Heartbreak Hotel

Broken all by myself saying

Woman don’t pay no mind

Forgotten like a hotel Bible

Phone keeps ringing and I’m trying to keep my mind off it

And if you walk by my window

I’ll open the blinds to watch you

Walk by like you didn’t know

I was inside still praying for the day just be easy

Heard you’re doing fine on the outside

Smelling like a fresh picked rose

Me, I’m still mothballs and lost minds

Down on the pavement praying, trying to make some sense of it

And if you walk by my body

Would you stop to breathe?

Or would you walk by never knowing

That I’m cigarette smoke floating in the glow of the TV

What would you expect from me?

I’m right back where I started

I never lost that first touch dreaming

Of that one first feeling that convinced me you were leaving

And how would you expect to breathe

With all of this around you?

Now I’m in this old empty room

Tracing back my steps to the place where I found you

Ring twice never come in so

People don’t change like time

I’m sticky like the front door’s deadbolt, the side door exit,

Wish I could’ve learned to let go

And if I came knocking on Sunday

Would you wear your white dress for me?

Or would you watch love through the peephole,

Talk through the chain blindfolded so that you never see me

I heard you like picking at wounds girl

Open up and let this one bleed

I never thought that you’d be the scalpel

To open up my doubtful and leave me in the backseat

And if I pull up from the attic

Would you wipe the dust off your dreams?

Or would you buy back what you gave up,

Open up fact to your nature and admit you were human

What would you expect from me?

I’m right back where I started

I never lost that first touch dreaming

Of that one first feeling that convinced me you were leaving

And how would you expect to breathe

With all of this around you?

Now I’m in this old empty room

Tracing back my steps to the place where I found you

Leaving… (Knock on the door, left on the floor… leaving) You made me battle alone, don’t make me battle alone

(Knock on the door… Heartbreak Hotel

Left on the floor… Heartbreak Hotel

Knock on the door… Heartbreak Hotel

You made me battle alone, don’t make me battle alone)