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Thomas Wolfe – Room 829 by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) from their forthcoming album The Chelsea Hotel#2.
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Thomas Wolfe – Room 829 lyrics
Tom’s father’s carving gravestones
Doubting Thomas twins and moans
For proof of The Man that’s long gone
While a stone Angel looks on
The wandering lost boy hoping to be found
Keeping above the depression that’s all around
Staying away from all those bootleggers and those thieves
In an unforgiving town that never sleeps
You can’t go home
You can’t go home
You’ve said far too much
They all turn their backs on you
They don’t want you back
They don’t want you back
Years before Tom had been hit
On the head with a beer mug in Munich
His headaches went from bad to worse
He must have known that he was cursed
Tom’s brother and father couldn’t be saved
They were taken by TB, by ‘The White Plague’
Now the doctor’s told Mama that ‘Tom was fine’
But you could see that Tom was dying, if you weren’t blind
Why do the good always seem to die young we ask
When they hadn’t done wrong in their past
Tom went at 37, a long way from home
Guess that’s the way it goes, I suppose
You couldn’t go back
You couldn’t go back
You weren’t welcome there
All the things that you’d said
Couldn’t be unsaid, they followed you everywhere
This world is built on gossip and on greed
In the dark valley where vultures feed
With fear and loathing for anyone new
On those that are faithful and are true
And on those that dare to show that they know more than they do
Outside the hospital Brother Luke shook his fist
Shouting ‘You let me down’
‘You let me down’
At the statue of Jesus that he once kissed
They took Tom home to his last resting place
Watched over by a stone Angel’s face
On his tombstone after he was laid to rest
Was carved ‘The last voyage, the longest the best’
You came home
You came home
As to the sky your soul ascends
At your journey’s end
Rain falls from black clouds
As they lowered you into the ground
Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 645782AU
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