Sold Motel - John Cale

Sold in a motel

Engraved in the dark

The hilfiger needle stabbed

Me twice in the back

Ooh — good nite

A shadow crawls

Across my face

Blurring my vision

In the usual way

Ooh — good nite

Sold motel on the boulevard

Something for nothing

In the inner mind

Ooh — get up

Beach blanket bourgeois

Sunning themselves

Miles of logic and nonsense

Ooh — get up

Send out the messenger

Pick up the word

Wild Tchapoutoulas

Have you heard

Make it a journey

From here to there

Send back the mail

From the ionosphere

Ooh — shut up

Mark down the laws

That we broke tonite

The judge wants you

Back in court to fight

Ooh — shut up

Send out the messenger

Pick up the word

Wild Tchapoutoulas

Have you heard

Send out the messenger

Pick up the word

General Custer

Have you heard

(I hear you calling…

I hear you call…)

Down that way they see

Death every day

In one form or another

Ooh — give up

They’re no different

There than here

They’re just learn to

Handle the fear

Ooh — give up

Send out the messenger

Pick up the word

Wild Tchapoutoulas

Have you heard

Send out the messenger

Pick up the word

General Custer

Have you heard