《The Beat Hotel》歌词

[00:00:24] paris nineteen fifty-six, number nine rue git le coeur

[00:00:29] word is out and everybody's beating on the door

[00:00:33] madame rachou will let you in, just smile and ring the bell

[00:00:39] welcome to nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:00:49] the sweet smell of pernod, a gauloise cigarette

[00:00:53] it's a cosmic congregation but you ain't seen nothing yet

[00:00:58] it's an open invitation, an existential clientele

[00:01:03] all looking for nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:01:13] they looked for it in new york city and san francisco bay

[00:01:18] they looked for in bebop jazz and it blew them all away

[00:01:23] they tried out every avenue and then said "what the hell,

[00:01:27] we'll look for it in paris at the beat hotel"

[00:01:37] burroughs came up from tangiers, ginsberg from new york

[00:01:42] kerouac came up from italy and slept out in the park

[00:01:47] gregory corso came and went and where he's at no one can tell

[00:01:51] he's still looking for nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:02:01] take me to your leader, take me to the man

[00:02:06] someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan

[00:02:11] if you're looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars

[00:02:15] you'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars

[00:02:30] this ragged band of poets, christians, buddhists, jews

[00:02:35] a new beat generation searching for the muse

[00:02:39] some found it in the arms of a mystic mademoiselle

[00:02:44] looking for nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:02:54] the rooms count up to forty-one, but you can sleep out in the hall

[00:02:58] for a few centimes you can get a drink and write your poems on the wall

[00:03:03] and the m*******a mixes with the tukish toilet smell

[00:03:08] it's all part of nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:03:18] alex campbell strums an old guitar someone picked up in spain

[00:03:23] ginsberg's howling poetry and kerouac's drunk again

[00:03:27] the rent is overdue there must be something they can sell

[00:03:32] maybe they can sell nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:03:42] someone's taking photographs, janine takes off her clothes

[00:03:46] marlene's meditating and concentrating on her toes

[00:03:51] jasmine hides in room sixteen and curls up in her shell

[00:03:55] she's communing with nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:04:05] take me to your leader, take me to the man

[00:04:10] someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan

[00:04:14] if you're looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars

[00:04:19] you'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars

[00:04:33] they did it for the journey and not for getting there

[00:04:38] fame is in a whisper when you pay the taxi fare

[00:04:43] it's just this side of heaven and a long, long way from hell

[00:04:47] it's somewhere in nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:04:57] nothing lasts forever, and forever's in a rhyme

[00:05:01] it's a buddha-like connection and everybody has their time

[00:05:06] if you want to drink the water you've got to dig into the well

[00:05:11] maybe then you'll find nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:05:20] it was over by nineteen sixty-three and everyone had gone

[00:05:25] but they'd opened up the road and the revolution was getting won

[00:05:30] when the poems were painted over and they rang the final bell

[00:05:34] it was goodbye to nirvana at the beat hotel

[00:05:44] the myth is stronger than the truth, and truth can sometimes lie

[00:05:48] to see it all for what it was you need an uncorrupted eye

[00:05:53] was the journey worth it, only time will tell

[00:05:58] still looking for nirvana, at the beat hotel

[00:06:07] take me to your leader, take me to the man

[00:06:12] someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan

[00:06:16] if you're looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars

[00:06:21] you'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars

[00:06:30] looking at the stars

[00:06:34] we'll looking at the stars