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Beat Hotel - Stockfisch Records
Paris nineteen fifty six
Number nine rue Git le Coeur
Word is out and everybody's
Beating on the door
Madame Rachou will let you in
Just smile and ring the bell
Welcome to Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
The sweet smell of pernod
A gauloise cigarette
It's a cosmic congregation
But you ain't seen nothing yet
It's an open invitation
An existential clientele
All looking for Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
They looked for it in New York City
And San Francisco Bay
They looked for in bebop jazz
And it blew them all away
They tried out every avenue
And then said what the hell
We'll look for it in Paris
At the Beat hotel
Burroughs came up from tangiers
Ginsberg from New York
Kerouac came up from Italy
And slept out in the park
Gregory Corso came and went
And where he's at no one can tell
He's still looking for Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
Take me to your leader
Take me to the man
Someone has got the answer
Someone's got the perfect plan
If you're looking in the alleys
If you're looking in the bars
You'll find us in the gutter
Looking at the stars
This ragged band of poets
Christians Buddhists Jews
A new beat generation
Searching for the muse
Some found it in the arms
Of a mystic mademoiselle
Looking for Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
The rooms count up to forty one
But you can sleep out in the hall
For a few centimes you can get a drink
And write your poems on the wall
And the m*******a mixes
With the tukish toilet smell
It's all part of Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
Alex Campbell strums an old guitar
Someone picked up in spain
Ginsberg's howling poetry
And kerouac's drunk again
The rent is overdue
There must be something they can sell
Maybe they can sell Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
Someone's taking photographs
Janine takes off her clothes
Marlene's meditating
And concentrating on her toes
Jasmine hides in room sixteen
And curls up in her shell
She's communing with Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
Take me to your leader
Take me to the man
Someone has got the answer
Someone's got the perfect plan
If you're looking in the alleys
If you're looking in the bars
You'll find us in the gutter
Looking at the stars
They did it for the journey
And not for getting there
Fame is in a whisper
When you pay the taxi fare
It's just this side of heaven
And a long long way from hell
It's somewhere in Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
Nothing lasts forever
And forever's in a rhyme
It's a Buddha like connection
And everybody has their time
If you want to drink the water
You've got to dig into the well
Maybe then you'll find Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
It was over by nineteen sixty three
And everyone had gone
But they'd opened up the road
And the revolution was getting won
When the poems were painted over
And they rang the final bell
It was goodbye to Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
The myth is stronger than the truth
And truth can sometimes lie
To see it all for what it was
You need an uncorrupted eye
Was the journey worth it
Only time will tell
Still looking for Nirvana
At the Beat hotel
Take me to your leader
Take me to the man
Someone has got the answer
Someone's got the perfect plan
If you're looking in the alleys
If you're looking in the bars
You'll find us in the gutter
Looking at the stars
Looking at the stars
We're looking at the stars
