jmjiloveyou

<p><img src="https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/272x272/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2F5a455b141bf9e5d174e808e948d9fd0a.499x499x1.jpg" alt="Cover art for Railway Hotel by Mike Batt"></p><p><br></p><p>We went to the room and we bolted the door</p><p>The bass from the jukebox was coming through the floor</p><p>And out through the walls we could still hear the roar of the trains</p><p><br></p><p>Was this all the comfort we got for our sins</p><p>No Candles, no waiters, no soft violins</p><p>A dirty electric convector plugged into the mains</p><p><br></p><p>I had wanted much more for the first night with you</p><p>But the Railway Hotel was the best I could do</p><p>I knew the Savoy would have suited you well</p><p>But the best I could do was the Railway Hotel</p><p><br></p><p>Away in the sky were the lights of a jet</p><p>Burning the night like a slow cigarette</p><p>A lamp in the street threw a soft silhouette on the wall</p><p><br></p><p>And though it was crumbling and run down and dead</p><p>A chair and a sink and an old single bed</p><p>The love we began and the things that we said I recall</p><p><br></p><p>I had wanted much more for the first night with you</p><p>But the Railway Hotel was all I could do</p><p>I knew the Savoy would have suited you well</p><p>But the best I could do was the Railway Hotel</p>