Beat Hotel-Stockfisch Records

[ti:Beat Hotel] [ar:Stockfisch Records] [al:Closer To The Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beat Hotel - Stockfisch Records [00:24.07]Paris nineteen fifty six [00:25.45] [00:26.00]Number nine rue Git le Coeur [00:27.28] [00:29.51]Word is out and everybody's [00:31.13]Beating on the door [00:32.43] [00:33.79]Madame Rachou will let you in [00:35.40] [00:36.00]Just smile and ring the bell [00:37.51] [00:38.76]Welcome to Nirvana [00:40.34] [00:42.01]At the Beat hotel [00:42.90] [00:49.06]The sweet smell of pernod [00:50.52] [00:51.04]A gauloise cigarette [00:52.50] [00:53.38]It's a cosmic congregation [00:55.04] [00:55.58]But you ain't seen nothing yet [00:57.48] [00:58.17]It's an open invitation [00:59.80] [01:00.37]An existential clientele [01:02.31] [01:03.28]All looking for Nirvana [01:04.85] [01:06.65]At the Beat hotel [01:08.27] [01:13.09]They looked for it in New York City [01:14.98] [01:15.59]And San Francisco Bay [01:17.38] [01:18.07]They looked for in bebop jazz [01:20.32]And it blew them all away [01:22.60]They tried out every avenue [01:24.34] [01:25.11]And then said what the hell [01:26.81] [01:27.68]We'll look for it in Paris [01:29.25] [01:31.22]At the Beat hotel [01:32.58] [01:37.47]Burroughs came up from tangiers [01:39.61]Ginsberg from New York [01:42.12]Kerouac came up from Italy [01:44.31]And slept out in the park [01:45.94] [01:46.98]Gregory Corso came and went [01:49.06]And where he's at no one can tell [01:50.59] [01:51.32]He's still looking for Nirvana [01:53.44] [01:55.30]At the Beat hotel [01:56.73] [02:01.46]Take me to your leader [02:03.29] [02:03.82]Take me to the man [02:05.42] [02:06.04]Someone has got the answer [02:08.30]Someone's got the perfect plan [02:10.74]If you're looking in the alleys [02:13.05]If you're looking in the bars [02:15.51]You'll find us in the gutter [02:17.42] [02:19.57]Looking at the stars [02:21.10] [02:30.01]This ragged band of poets [02:31.62] [02:32.35]Christians Buddhists Jews [02:34.69]A new beat generation [02:36.67] [02:37.20]Searching for the muse [02:39.54]Some found it in the arms [02:41.82]Of a mystic mademoiselle [02:44.43]Looking for Nirvana [02:46.14] [02:48.07]At the Beat hotel [02:49.33] [02:54.14]The rooms count up to forty one [02:56.27]But you can sleep out in the hall [02:58.53]For a few centimes you can get a drink [03:00.78]And write your poems on the wall [03:03.33]And the m*******a mixes [03:05.89]With the tukish toilet smell [03:08.11]It's all part of Nirvana [03:10.12] [03:11.75]At the Beat hotel [03:13.22] [03:17.87]Alex Campbell strums an old guitar [03:20.19]Someone picked up in spain [03:22.16] [03:22.73]Ginsberg's howling poetry [03:24.86]And kerouac's drunk again [03:27.34]The rent is overdue [03:28.64] [03:29.29]There must be something they can sell [03:31.57] [03:32.07]Maybe they can sell Nirvana [03:34.03] [03:35.79]At the Beat hotel [03:37.07] [03:41.84]Someone's taking photographs [03:43.53] [03:44.11]Janine takes off her clothes [03:45.95] [03:46.48]Marlene's meditating [03:48.42]And concentrating on her toes [03:51.13]Jasmine hides in room sixteen [03:53.52]And curls up in her shell [03:55.56]She's communing with Nirvana [03:57.78] [03:59.39]At the Beat hotel [04:00.83] [04:05.35]Take me to your leader [04:07.18] [04:07.70]Take me to the man [04:09.92]Someone has got the answer [04:12.13]Someone's got the perfect plan [04:13.70] [04:14.43]If you're looking in the alleys [04:16.73]If you're looking in the bars [04:19.15]You'll find us in the gutter [04:21.42] [04:23.15]Looking at the stars [04:24.78] [04:33.51]They did it for the journey [04:34.89] [04:35.64]And not for getting there [04:37.15] [04:38.21]Fame is in a whisper [04:40.24]When you pay the taxi fare [04:42.64]It's just this side of heaven [04:45.11]And a long long way from hell [04:47.01] [04:47.65]It's somewhere in Nirvana [04:49.59] [04:51.19]At the Beat hotel [04:52.46] [04:57.10]Nothing lasts forever [04:59.12]And forever's in a rhyme [05:00.57] [05:01.46]It's a Buddha like connection [05:03.53]And everybody has their time [05:06.13]If you want to drink the water [05:08.06]You've got to dig into the well [05:10.20] [05:10.75]Maybe then you'll find Nirvana [05:12.89] [05:14.51]At the Beat hotel [05:15.36] [05:20.30]It was over by nineteen sixty three [05:22.60]And everyone had gone [05:24.31] [05:25.08]But they'd opened up the road [05:26.94]And the revolution was getting won [05:29.05] [05:29.79]When the poems were painted over [05:32.17]And they rang the final bell [05:33.99] [05:34.50]It was goodbye to Nirvana [05:36.38] [05:38.06]At the Beat hotel [05:39.56] [05:44.26]The myth is stronger than the truth [05:46.37]And truth can sometimes lie [05:48.41]To see it all for what it was [05:50.44]You need an uncorrupted eye [05:52.60] [05:53.62]Was the journey worth it [05:55.00] [05:56.07]Only time will tell [05:57.82]Still looking for Nirvana [05:59.61] [06:01.47]At the Beat hotel [06:03.31] [06:07.37]Take me to your leader [06:09.56]Take me to the man [06:11.78]Someone has got the answer [06:13.95]Someone's got the perfect plan [06:16.39]If you're looking in the alleys [06:18.63]If you're looking in the bars [06:20.99]You'll find us in the gutter [06:23.62] [06:25.00]Looking at the stars [06:26.47] [06:29.46]Looking at the stars [06:31.76] [06:34.13]We're looking at the stars