Sold-Motel Songtext
von John Cale

(Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Sold in a motel
Engraved in the dark
The Hilfiger needle (Uh-hu-uh-hu) stabbed me twice in the back
Ooh, good night (Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)

A shadow crawls
Across my face
Blurring my vision (Uh-hu-uh-hu)
In the usual way
Ooh, good night (Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Sold motel on the boulevard
Something for nothing (Uh-hu-uh-hu)
In the inner mind
Ooh, get up (Uh-hu-uh-hu)


Beach blanket bourgeois
Sunning themselves
Miles of logic (Uh-hu-uh-hu) and nonsense
Ooh, get up (Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Make it a journey
From here to there
Send back the mail (Uh-hu-uh-hu)
From the ionosphere
Ooh, shut up (Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Mark down the laws
That we broke tonight
The judge (Uh-hu-uh-hu) wants you back in court to fight
Ooh, shut up (Uh-hu-uh-hu)


Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
General Custer
Have you heard

(I hear you calling)
(I hear you calling)
(I hear you calling)
(I hear you calling)

(Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)
(Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Down that way, they see death every day
In one form or another
Ooh, give up (Uh-hu-uh-hu)

They′re no different there than here
They're just learn (Uh-hu-uh-hu) to handle the fear
Ooh, give up (Uh-hu-uh-hu)

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
Wild Tchapoutoulas
Have you heard

Send out the messenger
Pick up the word
General Custer
Have you heard