Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch) - Conor Oberst

Just because you got it

You don’t have to flaunt it

With an endless stream of famous men

Pretty as a portrait

Look like Mamah Borthwick

On that Shining Brow of Taliesin

Someone might try and burn it down

So you’ll have to put the fire out

A fortune spent but that’s irrelevant to build something that’s sacred till the

end

It costs twenty dollars to visit Fallingwater

It’s a perfect house where no one lives

Maybe someone once did but they got evicted by a busload full of greedy tourists

And it would take a time machine

To fulfill all of my fantasies

'Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing

And the only thing that’s sacred till the end

Every time I tempt fate

There’s a major earthquake

Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell

Every building damaged

Only one left standing

It was Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel

A rumination in my mind

Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim

I’m not content

But I’m feeling hesitant to build something that’s sacred till the end