{"id":170,"date":"2006-03-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-11-01T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:32:37","slug":"empty-hotel-hallways-a-star-is-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/03\/02\/empty-hotel-hallways-a-star-is-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty hotel hallways [A Star Is Bored]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/p>\n

He was so bored in the room. The others had gone out to an afterhours but he was sick of clubs and music. He tried to write a letter to his ex-wife but he couldn’t think of what to say after he asked about the kids. The movies on cable were always the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

He went down to the bar and ordered Scotch. He buried himself in shadow in a corner booth but soon he looked up to see a woman of thirty wearing teenager’s clothes and too much makeup.<\/p>\n

“Aren’t you…” she began.<\/p>\n

His first impulse was to be rude, to just send this poor creature away. There she was, her waste cinched in with a department store “fashion” belt, her breasts on display thanks to some engineering miracle of a brasiere, her hair somehow inflated… she looked like a flower ready to blossom… or simply explode. But he could never be cruel.<\/p>\n

Sadly, he thought to himself, he could never be strong<\/span> either.<\/p>\n

“Maybe,” he said in answer to her partial question. “I might be. After, all, according to the entertainment section, I am in town.”<\/p>\n

She looked confused but hopeful.<\/p>\n

“Why don’t you sit down, love? You seem quite young to be one of my <\/span>fans…”<\/p>\n\n

A STAR IS BORED<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A star is bored
\nprowling empty hotel hallways
\nHe’s never alone
\nso how come he’s always lonely<\/p>\n

Nothing gets him down
\nit’s all just the same
\nsaying “If you think you’re bored,
\nthen you should see me!”<\/p>\n

Down in the bar
\nleaning into a smokey corner
\ntrying not to catch her eye:
\n“Say, cowboy, why you dressed like that?”<\/p>\n

And it always seems to
\ngo down about the same
\nIt kills a couple of hours
\nbut it don’t kill the pain<\/p>\n

Tell him a story
\nmake it long, make it lonely
\nLots of starstruck summer nights
\nand the moon’s reflection on the river that runs through
\neverything<\/p>\n

Nothing makes much sense
\nbut he guesses that’s just life
\nYa play a few songs
\nand then they turn out the lights<\/p>\n

Yeah, nothing makes much sense
\nand he guesses that’s just life
\nYou have a couple of laughs
\nand then you call it a night<\/p>\n

(C)1990, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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