Bienville
North to Oklahoma to visit the folks
East across 40, already half broke
Memphis in the daytime is hotter than hell
Bound for New Orleans and the Bienville Hotel
Down through the delta, the Dockery farm
Saw the devil in the moonlight, spinnin' a yarn
The night down in Yazoo, we both rested well
Dreamin' 'bout crawfish and the Bienville Hotel
All of my life I prayed I would find
Another lost soul with a travelin' mind
The years spent wishing left me ill prepared
For the Bienville Hotel and the time that we shared
The old Crescent City buzzed like a sign
Full of the faithful, sunlight and wine
From the moment we laid eyes our hearts gently fell
We checked in and made love to the Bienville Hotel
All of my life I prayed I would find
Another lost soul with a travelin' mind
The years spent wishing left me ill prepared
For the Bienville Hotel and the time that we shared
Ever the rebel, a press your luck teen
We dropped our last twenty to a dollar machine
When the wheels stopped rollin', there were no ringing bells
Back to the showers at the Bienville Hotel
All of my life I prayed I would find
Another lost soul with a travelin' mind
The years spent wishing left me ill prepared
For the Bienville Hotel and the time that we shared
As we grow old together, one story I'll tell
Is how we got back home from the Bienville Hotel
East across 40, already half broke
Memphis in the daytime is hotter than hell
Bound for New Orleans and the Bienville Hotel
Down through the delta, the Dockery farm
Saw the devil in the moonlight, spinnin' a yarn
The night down in Yazoo, we both rested well
Dreamin' 'bout crawfish and the Bienville Hotel
All of my life I prayed I would find
Another lost soul with a travelin' mind
The years spent wishing left me ill prepared
For the Bienville Hotel and the time that we shared
The old Crescent City buzzed like a sign
Full of the faithful, sunlight and wine
From the moment we laid eyes our hearts gently fell
We checked in and made love to the Bienville Hotel
All of my life I prayed I would find
Another lost soul with a travelin' mind
The years spent wishing left me ill prepared
For the Bienville Hotel and the time that we shared
Ever the rebel, a press your luck teen
We dropped our last twenty to a dollar machine
When the wheels stopped rollin', there were no ringing bells
Back to the showers at the Bienville Hotel
All of my life I prayed I would find
Another lost soul with a travelin' mind
The years spent wishing left me ill prepared
For the Bienville Hotel and the time that we shared
As we grow old together, one story I'll tell
Is how we got back home from the Bienville Hotel
Credits
Writer(s): Jason Philip Boland
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.