Oh Shangri La - Jon Fratelli

Hole in my head can’t sleep for dreaming

I’ll be checking out some day

No shades of red no room for breathing

No regrets no hours away

This jukebox won’t play no Sinatra

It just curses all night long

There’s no easy spoken mantra

Put me back where I belong

Late night parades a dreamers nightmare

And the boys are closing in

She’s got no good reason to be there

But her choices all seem slim

Well chaos reigns in this old thumb screw

Baffled lines of hers and his

Oh shangri la why can’t I find you

And your faded promises?

I’ve seen it in your eyes, a wanted man’s disguise

And a million bad highs

The lights have all gone red

The 4am dread

Then you made sense like the star that you are

Oh shangri la

One vicious love after another

A pointless nose, and shotgun shoes

Would someone please show me some other

Place to hang these dead boy blues

The landlord won’t place me an order

Well he don’t think that I should sleep

His wife just sings me to the border

But I can’t think of her as cheap

I’ve seen it in her eyes, a wanted man’s disguise

And a million bad highs

The lights have all gone red

The 4am dread

Then you made sense like the star that you are

Oh shangri la…