Canmore Hotel #2 Lyrics

The honeymoon suite

Is a sad scene

It's a gong show

It's a bad dream

It's a six bed dorm

Full of German teens

Tripping balls and venting spleens

The whole hotel

Is different now

They fixed it up nice

Tore the soul out

They kept the smell, though

That's something

And it's fifty five bucks

For a private room

I thought, hell, I'm here

I'm not too good to stay

I wanted to be honest, now

The dawns about to break

I'm trying to remember

What you told me by the lake

That was so long ago

I was somebody else

In those days

I'm writing just to tell you

I've got nothing left to say

I'm tired of being awestruck

By the mountains and the lakes

They used to be new

I forget how that felt

And now I only come to canmore

When I'm feeling sorry for myself

The bar still smells like cigarettes

But the brawlers either moved

Or died, or haven't woken up yet

The ghosts that used to haunt this place

Got exorcized by time and taste

Or gentrified, accessorized, and tamed

But I'm still up

To get real down

I came all this way

So lets drag these chains around

I wanted to be honest, now

The dawns about to break

I'm trying to remember

What you told me by the lake

That was so long ago

I was somebody else

In those days

I'm writing just to tell you

I've got nothing left to say

I'm tired of being awestruck

By the mountains and the lakes

They used to be new

I forget how that felt

And now I only come to canmore

When I'm feeling sorry for myself

In the morning

The weather wasn't perfect

But I figured that

I better hit the road

I took the short way

To the highway

Skipped the scenic route entirely

It's just another cheap horizon

Making promises that it can't keep

It was open mic

The place was packed

There were young men

Singing sad songs

You just have to laugh, sometimes

I bummed a smoke

From a local girl

She said being from here's

Just like being from anywhere else

And she was friendly

She said let's dance

I thought what the hell

But I lost her on the way back in

I'm trying to be quiet now

The spells about to break

I'm trying to hold onto

What it felt like by the lake

But it slips through my hands

Like a fistful of sand

These days

So i'm writing just to say

I won't be writing you a-gain

It's time to say goodbye

To all the mountains and the lakes

They'll be here when we're gone

They'll be looking out

But, me

I only come to canmore when i'm feeling sorry

I only come to canmore when i'm feeling sorry

I only come to canmore when i'm feeling sorry for myself