Greetings From The Penn​-​View Motel

from Curtains by Paris Street

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The original version of this song can be found on our first EP.

The Penn-View Motel was located off the interstate in Reading, Pennsylvania. It (deservedly) shut down in either 2005 or 2006.

lyrics

Too long spent on this darn highway
We need a place to stay
To crash out for a bit

Vacancy sign at a run-down motel
Upon that hill, oh well
It could be worse, couldn’t it?

A roach as big as we have ever seen before
Scurries from the floor
Up the wood paneling

Unknown stains and cigarette burns
On the comforter
(Not very comforting)

From a shattered motel window
We are anxiously nonplussed

What’s that figure by the swimming pool?
Why ain't the water blue?
What else can we expect?

Bathroom smells of mold, piss, and stale beer
What are we doing here?
Why haven’t we left yet?

From a shattered motel window
We are anxiously nonplussed
And the strange noises below
Are they coming after us?

Never thought I'd say it, but I must concede
We don't have enough weed
To help us see this through

I'll admit I'm not a praying man
But tonight I am
Maybe you should be, too

credits

from Curtains, released March 5, 2013
Written by Carl Polgar.
Performed by Carl Polgar with an acoustic electric guitar and a keyboard.
Recorded in the spring of 2008 in the garage of a duplex in the Sylvan Park neighborhood of Nashville.
The picture that accompanies this track is of the Penn-View Motel. It was taken in the fall of 2004, the morning after the events described in this song took place.

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