Deguello Motel - Roger Alan Wade

I live in a room with a green radio

Curled in the womb of a 29-year-low

Four walls from heaven and one sin from hell

In Room 17 at Deguello Motel

The desk clerk’s a jerk

An old carnival fella

I asked, «Where you from?»

He said, «Lake Isabella»

I told him I’d been there, but I never had

He looked at the clock and I signed the pad

He said no dogs allowed

So I bought me a fish

He lives by my bed in a souvenir dish

Swims round in circles

And eats once a day

And looks a lot like my x-wife's fiancé

And I live in a room with a green radio

Curled in th womb of a 29-year-low

Four walls from heaven and one sin from hell

In Room 17 at Deguello Motel

And there’s a wasteland across the highway

Where the lot lizards roam and the big diesels stay

The cops ask me questions and I tell 'em jokes

And that fat one he’s always bummin' my smokes

And the swimmin' pool water is Chuck Berry green

And the water pipes rattle like a pinball machine

The wall’s are blood red and the sheets are Velveeta

And that girl in one-twelve she goes by Juanita

Juanita’s a dancer, she does the naked ballet

I keep an eye on things while she’s away

She spends all her money

And half of mine too

Trying to get high enough to get naked for you

And I live in a room with a green radio

Curled in the womb of a 29-year-low

Four walls from heaven and one sin from hell

In Room 17 at Deguello Motel

There’s an old Mexican curse this place is named after

And I heard it once, in a box office disaster

The duke told his boys

Said it means leave or die

I don’t know much spanish

But John Wayne don’t lie

And I live in a room with a green radio

Curled in the womb of a 29-year-low

Four walls from heaven and one sin from hell

In Room 17 at Deguello Motel

I’m singin' like a pearl in a bottle of crell (?)

In Room 17 at Deguello Motel