Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997
By: Beck Hansen
Written by: Beck Hansen

This Version:
  • Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997 (3:26)
    Available on Mellow Gold and 1 other release.
    Credits
    Beck Hansen: Guitar (Acoustic Slide), Guitar (Acoustic), Percussion, Producer, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
    Rob Schnapf: Mix, Producer
    Tom Rothrock: Mix, Producer
 
Lyrics:
One more time

I was born in this hotel, washing dishes in the sink
Magazines and free soda, trying hard not to think
Lay it on to the dawn, everything we've done is wrong
I'll be lonesome when I'm gone, lay it on to the dawn

She can talk to squirrels
Coming back from the convalescent home
Staring at sports cars
Crying


Rattlesnake on the ceiling, gun powder on my sleeve
I will live here forever with the ocean and the bees
Lay it on to the dawn, everything we've done is wrong
I'll be lonesome when I'm gone, lay it on to the dawn

Lay it on to the dawn
Lay it on to the dawn
Lay it on to the dawn
 
Live:

Played live 33 times:
Earliest known live version: April 20, 1994
Latest known live version: November 1, 2006