Well, I had just checked in when the sun came up
|
After ten hours on the bus.
|
I was staring at the stains on the ceiling, baby,
|
Trying not to think about us.
|
But then someone in a room five-oh two
|
started doing the thing that we used to do.
|
Every bang, every boom,
|
It was just like it was happening in my own room.
|
|
'Cause they've got paper walls, paper walls,
|
Paper walls... ooh, yeah.
|
|
I closed the curtain, I shut the light,
|
I heard the highway moan.
|
Next thing I remember they were having a fight,
|
And then, she was all alone.
|
I heard her cry in the darkest hour,
|
I heard it echo in the hotel shower,
|
I heard her start packing her things, so,
|
I called her number and I heard it ring...
|
|
Right through the paper walls, paper walls,
|
Paper walls, oooh yeah, now.
|
|
I've never seen such a sight before,
|
The way she looked when she opened the door.
|
Hush now baby don't make a sound,
|
When all your love comes a-tumblin' down...
|
|
Just like a paper wall, paper wall,
|
Paper wall, Ooh just like a paper wall.
|
|
It ain't the road that kills you, baby,
|
It's the all night calls;
|
It ain't the road that kills you, baby,
|
It's just the paper walls
|
|
-----------------
|
Paper Walls
|
Marc Cohn |