Room With No Number Lyrics - Goodbye Cruel World - Elvis Costello

Picture a hotel room 

Clothes scattered across the floor 

Covers pulled back from the pillow 

A sign hung on the door 

Two lovers locked up tight 

Through the endless days and nights 

Hiding something they can't show 

Something no-one must know 

Chorus 

There's a room without a number 

While the sign outside says there's 

no vacancy as you take your key 

They smile at you so understandingly 

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She cried out in the night 

Woke the porter from his sleep 

He grinned slyly to himself 

As he went to fetch his keys 

Look what love has brought them to 

This terrible nightmare 

His or hers he could not tell 

As they were sleeping there 

Chorus 

And I wish he could be 

The man he was before he was me 

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A girl arrived at first light 

And enquired if they'd been seen 

And why the numbers ran from twelve 

Missing out thirteen 

And they said oh my darling 

Put it down to superstition 

Try to avoid a scandal 

And don't arouse suspicion 

They re-arranged the furniture 

They even papered over the door 

There's a room without a number 

While the sign outside says there's 

no vacancy as you take your key 

They smile just so so you know 

Chorus