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The Cecil Hotel

from Violence & Sorrow by Moskau

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If you're ever in LA
And you need a place to stay,
There's a hotel on Main Street that's proved to be fun;
So, follow me boys and
See Wylis take poison
On November 19, 1931.

Come to the Cecil,
Your joys will increase, well
What happens at the Cecil, at the Cecil it stays
Come to the Cecil,
Check in, grab your keys, well
You know that the Cecil is a marvelous place.

Come to this room,
See Ben Dodich meet his doom
As he blows his fucking brains out and goes straight to hell
See Sergeant Louis Borden
Pick the room he can afford and
Slash his throat with a razor cause he's not feeling well.

In the telephone wire
See Gracey die,
She fell from the window on the ninth floor.
See Roy Thompson breathe deep
And take a suicide leap
To be found on the skylight of the building next door

I'm sure you have heard
About what occured
To Dorothy Jean when she was 19
She thought the baby she had
It had been born dead
So she threw it out the window and wiped herself clean.

See Helen Gurnee
Fall on the marquee
When she silently steps right off the fence
Like Julia Moore
Did from the eight floor
Leaving nothing behind but 59 cents.

When Pauline had enough,
She jumped and landed rough
On George Gianinni who was passing by,
His hands in his pockets.
She struck him like a rocket
Let me tell you that's a mighty strange way to die.

Pigeon Goldie's faith
Was to be strangled and raped
And stabbed, with her Dodgers cap still on her head
Like so many before,
Death knocked on her door
And the very next morning she was found dead.

One day it was raining
And the guests were complaining
That the water tasted funny and the pressure was low.
They found Elisa had sank
In the rooftop water tank
Where for days she had been decomposing slow.

So come to the Cecil,
Your joys will increase, well
What happens at the Cecil, at the Cecil it stays
Come to the Cecil,
Check in, grab your keys, well
You know that the Cecil is a marvelous place.

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from Violence & Sorrow, released October 13, 2017

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