Deguello Motel Lyrics

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I live in a room with a green radio,
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
The desk clerk's a jerk, an old carnival fellow,
I ask where're you from, he said Lake Isabella
I told him I'd been there, but I never had
He looked at the clock, and I signed the pad.
He said, "No dogs allowed," so I bought me a fish
He lives by my bed in a souvenir dish
Swims 'round in circles and eats once a day
And looks a lot like my ex-wife's fiance.
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I live in a room with a green radio,
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
And there's a wasteland across the highway
Where the lot lizards** roam and the big diesels stay
The cops ask me questions, and I tell them jokes
And that fat one, he's always a-bummin' my smokes
And the swimming pool water is Chuck Berry green
And the water pipes rattle like a pinball machine
The walls are blood-red, and the sheets are Velveeta
And that girl in 112 (one-twelve), she goes by Juanita
Juanita's a dancer, she does the naked ballet
I keep an eye on things while she's away
She spends all her money, and half of mine, too
Tryin' to get high enough to get naked for you
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And I live in a room with a green radio,
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
There's an old Mexican dirge this place is named after
And I heard it once in a box office disaster
The Duke told his boys, said it means leave or die
I don't know much Spanish, but John Wayne don't lie
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And I live in a room with a green radio,
Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low
Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel
I'm singin' like a pearl in a bottle of Prell
In room seventeen at Deguello Motel