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"Sold Motel" is a track by John Cale, from the album Black Acetate, released 3rd July 2005. The track is 4:53 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about John Cale.
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Sold in a motel, engraved in the dark The Hilfiger needle stabbed me twice in the back Ooh, good night A shadow crawls across my face Blurring my vision in the usual way Ooh, good night 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? 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 tonight 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 Wild Tchapoutoulas, have you heard? 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 calling 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 learned 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 Wild Tchapoutoulas, have you heard? 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?
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