Hotel Noir Lyrics - Legendary Pink Dots

Two glasses on a glass-top table. Lights are low, 

the ashtray's full. he talks of all his conquests--letters 

ringed with hearts and crosses. He left them in the 

drawer (at Hotel Noir)--unanswered, yet he read 

them for her time and time again . . . She looked 

clean through him and told him how she loved 

white horses, riding on a swing and laying in a 

cornfield on a warm summer's night. She'd watch 

the dancing lights. Alone but never lonely--until 

now. He ordered whisky but the waiter walked clean 

through him. He sadly shook his head, and lit his 

fifteenth cigarette . . . and slowly, surely pictures for- 

med he never could forget . . . Loretta sent him sea 

shells, Henrietta sent a rose, and Margaretta said 

they'd marry in a letter that he'd never answered 

(left it in the drawer at Hotel Noir . . .) And she said 

how she loved the sea at full moon. Running down 

a silver beach with silver ribbons trailing from her 

hands. She found a doorway in the sand where 

she'd store away her stones. Precious stones that 

could be diamonds, just because they sparkled in 

rain. And there she'd sleep, and there she'd 

dream. And there she died. The tide rolled 

backwards and it dried and left a headstone made 

of salt. The warm breeze turned to steam. And even 

the vegetables screamed and screamed and 

screamed . . . He stretched his hand out just to touch 

her--but she said she had to leave . . . 

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