Hotel Hobbies

by Marillion

From the album: Clutching at Straws

Track 1 of 23 on Clutching at Straws (1987).

Duration: 3:35

Clutching at Straws cover art

Lyrics for Hotel Hobbies

Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors Bell boys checking out the hookers in the bar Slug-like fingers trace the star-spangled clouds of cocaine on the mirror The short straw took its bow The tell tale tocking of the last cigarette Marking time in the packet as the whisky sweat Lies like discarded armour on an unmade bed And a familiar craving is crawling in his head And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen Introducing characters to memories like old friends Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines A fever of confession a catalogue of crime in happy hour Do you cry in happy hour, do you hide in happy hour The pilgrimage to happy hour New shadows tugging at the corner of his eye Jostling for attention as the sunlight flares Through a curtains tear, shuffling its beams As if in nervous anticipation of another day

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More from Clutching at Straws

  1. Hotel Hobbies
  2. Warm Wet Circles
  3. That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
  4. Going Under
  5. Just for the Record
  6. White Russian
  7. Incommunicado
  8. Torch Song
  9. Slainte Mhath
  10. Sugar Mice
  11. The Last Straw / Happy Ending
  12. Incommunicado
  13. Tux On
  14. Going Under
  15. Beaujolais Day
  16. Story From a Thin Wall
  17. Shadows on the Barley
  18. Sunset Hill
  19. Tic-Tac-Toe
  20. Voice in the Crowd
  21. Exile on Princes Street
  22. White Russians - Demo
  23. Sugar Mice