Crow Jane Alley (For Jack)

Outside the dark hotel room

The taxis flash their lights

Garbage trucks wake you up at dawn

They turn off the neon signs

The bar's been closed for hours

The mini bar's been stolen too

They took all the fire alarms off every wall

And they say help will be here soon

I'd go to the drugstore for you but I'm afraid to go outside

And take a walk down that corridor they call Crow Jane Alley at night

Beneath your feet the carpet's moldy

In the bathroom hangs a rope

In the lobby's a plaque to poets

And broke down painters with no hope

Drinking rusty water

And I'll wait with you till fall

Just don't ask me to take

That walk down Crow Jane Alley at all

I'd go to the drugstore for you but I'm afraid to go outside

And take a walk down that corridor they call Crow Jane Alley at night

And take a walk down that corridor they call Crow Jane Alley at night

And take a walk down that corridor they call Crow Jane Alley at night