Deguello Motel

I live in a room with a green radio, Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell In room seventeen at Deguello Motel The desk clerk's a jerk, an old carnival fellow, I ask where're you from, he said Lake Isabella I told him I'd been there, but I never had He looked at the clock, and I signed the pad. He said, "No dogs allowed," so I bought me a fish He lives by my bed in a souvenir dish Swims 'round in circles and eats once a day And looks a lot like my ex-wife's fiance. I live in a room with a green radio, Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell In room seventeen at Deguello Motel And there's a wasteland across the highway Where the lot lizards** roam and the big diesels stay The cops ask me questions, and I tell them jokes And that fat one, he's always a-bummin' my smokes And the swimming pool water is Chuck Berry green And the water pipes rattle like a pinball machine The walls are blood-red, and the sheets are Velveeta And that girl in 112 (one-twelve), she goes by Juanita Juanita's a dancer, she does the naked ballet I keep an eye on things while she's away She spends all her money, and half of mine, too Tryin' to get high enough to get naked for you And I live in a room with a green radio, Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell In room seventeen at Deguello Motel There's an old Mexican dirge this place is named after And I heard it once in a box office disaster The Duke told his boys, said it means leave or die I don't know much Spanish, but John Wayne don't lie And I live in a room with a green radio, Curled in the womb of a twenty-nine year low Four walls from heaven, and one sin from hell In room seventeen at Deguello Motel I'm singin' like a pearl in a bottle of Prell In room seventeen at Deguello Motel