Omaha Hotel

Well, the flood took the town, the fire took the bank

No one has the money to recover what sank

Rusted out trucks, big heaps of metal

I’m sure this place was greener when I was little

Straight from the airport to fire and fury

But I’ll always love the part where we pray to Mary

I’m searching the back for the faces like mine

Now there’s one less face to find

Omaha Hotel where I spent the night

I watch the bugs fly around in the parking lot light

Couldn’t catch a wink sleeping in my blue jeans

Tears in a church kinda kill my dreams

I stepped away for a minute to get myself together

Watch them turning the soil with the turning of the weather

And all at once there were no more chances

I wish we could’ve caught up under better circumstances

Well, I missed your babies, missed the wedding

With the wrinkles on our face nostalgia is setting

In

I stepped away for a minute, sat on the steps

I stepped away for a few years, I straightened my dress

If I said I regret leaving I’d be lying

Just want to live my life

And this place is dying

Dying

Oh, oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh, oh, ohh, ohh

Oh, oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh, oh, ohh, ohh

Well, the flood took the town, the fire took the bank

No one has the money to recover what sank