Hotel Womb

Kilbey
(Campbell Connelly Australia Pty Limited)

Appears On:

• Starfish (1988), Track 10
• Starfish (1988), Intervention Records 2021 2LP Expanded Edition, Side 3, Track 3
• Steve Kilbey - Acoustic & Intimate (2000), Track 7 (Live Acoustic Version)
• Videos:
  • Future Past Perfect: Live at the Enmore (2013) - DVD 3, Track 10 (Live)
  • Steve Kilbey - Steve Kilbey Live (2008), Track 15

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Aug. 21, 2013]

Volcano pierce the air
Ashes block out the sun
Down in the lair, well I met her there
With a price for everyone

I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring
I couldn't take it off if I tried
And the cactus sure tastes strangely sweet
As it goes down inside

I'll dream I'm safe in my hotel womb
Soft and soul made, it's a wonderful room

A sudden voltage in the night
With a rainforest girl
As we float downstream to the Amazon River
Where the black waters swirl

I say, "Why are you people wearing those masks?"
I say, "Can we be reconciled?"
She says, "The mother of the storm has to roam the sky
Searching for her child"

I'll dream I'm safe in my hotel womb
Soft and soul made, it's a wonderful room (in my hotel)
I'll wish I'm back in my hotel womb (in my hotel)
Slip through the crack, to that wonderful room

Morning comes at last
And she's lying by my side
She's got the face of the widow that keeps following me
And the body of my bride

I say, "Why are those buildings swaying like trees?"
I say, "Can we stop for a while?"
She says, "Can't you hear the city that's hidden in there?
It's just another mile"

I'll dream I'm safe in my hotel womb
Soft and soul made, it's a wonderful room (in my hotel)
I'll wish I'm back in my hotel womb (in my hotel)
Slip through the crack, to that wonderful room