The Dukes Hotel Lyrics

If you can dance, show me how you move

To your requiem

Swaying in a solitude, holding out for someone

To give a damn

But no one ever comes, you've got to go it

You've got to go it all alone

Walking crowded streets without reason

Or a purpose to go home

And you won't find yourself

At The Dukes Hotel

Where you can be free

You'll be just like me

Nowhere you want to be

Like at City Lights

Because you're so alone

Smoking cigarettes to substitute sex

And drinking to forget

Those bad memories and to numb the sting

Of your misery

Your contemporaries are so happy and free

You're sickened by them

They're living lives that you could only pretend

With lovers and friends

They often find themselves

At The Dukes Hotel

Where they don't care

They won't see you there

Or anywhere

Where you want to go

Because you're so alone

And if you can sing, tell me what it means

To feel so alive

Living tired routines at the same old scenes

Until you die

But you could find yourself

At The Dukes Hotel

If someone cared

To acquaint you there

And everywhere

Where you could shine

You could get in line

Leave your life behind

To be like them

Dead in BCM

Just to go again

And maybe feel alive

Instead of nothing inside