Sterling

I drank myself to sleep

Every night of last week

Then I walked to the Boscov’s store

To buy a case of Crazy Horse

I dreamt I stayed in the Sterling

In the same bed as Kennedy

Jackie and Johnny and Caroline would ride up the mainline

The last stop is Carbondale

Where John once found some Jermyn tail

And his Irish and Jermyn son had

Wrote a story called Kill Dragon

It was a huge hit in the youth group scene

Cause he pledged toward celibacy

I saw him coming…

This year I’m going to work on stability

This year I’m going to try and keep

My friends close to me

And I hope one day to have half as much

Of my grandpa’s integrity

I saw him coming…

I saw Kennedy, in the Hotel Sterling

He told me everything, that I knew we’d both been feeling

So we sat on the ledge and looked down toward the West end

That’s where I drank myself to sleep

Just to get some company

I saw him coming…