Mamah Borthwick (a Sketch) Lyrics - Conor Oberst

Just because you got it 

You don't have to flaunt it 

With an endless stream of famous men 

Pretty as a portrait 

Looked like Mamah Borthwick 

On that Shining Brow of Taliesin 

Someone might try and burn it down 

So you'll have to put the fire out 

Fortunes spent but that's irrelevant to build something that's sacred till the end 

It cost twenty dollars to visit Fallingwater 

It's the perfect house where no one lives 

Maybe someone once did but they got evicted by a busload full of greedy tourists 

And it would take a time machine 

To fulfill all of my fantasies 

'Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing 

And the only thing that's sacred till the end 

Every time I tempt fate 

There's a major earthquake 

Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell 

Every building damaged 

Only one left standing 

It was Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel