Valium - The Felice Brothers

Well, I’m at a motel on the border of Utah and Colorado

There’s an old John Wayne movie on, or I think it’s John Wayne

A bride’s being carried away on horseback into the darkening horizon

The soft murmur of strings and the lowing of distant cattle is like

Valium for the national conscious

Valium, valium

In this warmly beating heart

In this warmly beating heart

My happiness is touch-and-go

Kinda like this motel’s HBO

I’ve been laying here flipping through the channels

A presidential debate

A split second later, a picture-perfect dinner emerges from an oven

That rattle snake never stood a chance against the likes of Annie

Oakley

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

In this warmly beating heart

In this warmly beating heart

The night is too quiet to sleep

And so I’m standing now in the dust of the road contemplating

Heaven

I must have been lost on some kind of excursion up through Colorado I think her

name was Marilyn but I remember nothing else about her

Except that her hair smelled of gunpowder

That’s it for tonight — signing off, signing off

Marilyn, Marilyn

In this warmly beating heart

In this warmly beating heart

Valium, valium

In this warmly beating heart

In this warmly beating heart