[Intro: warm electric piano and slow bass, male harmonies humming] [Verse 1: smooth male lead] Every other weekend in a room that isn't ours Same view of the highway, same little soaps lined in a row Checkout's at eleven, and we spend the last two hours Watching the clock like it owes us money, moving slow It's ten fifty two, you're in my shirt by the curtain Your flight is at four, mine's at six, the cab is on the way I pick up the phone by the bed, and I ain't even certain What I'm about to ask for, but I know I want to stay [Chorus: lead with stacked male harmonies] Hang the sign on the door Tell housekeeping not yet Call down to the front desk Ask for late checkout, as late as they get [Verse 2: lead, sweet talking the phone] Lady at the desk says she can give us until one One o'clock comes creeping, and the two of us ain't done I call back sweet as sugar, and I ask about half past She says, "Sir, I got a family waiting, how long you think this lasts?" I said, ma'am, if I had my way, I'd ask you for a week She laughed and said, "Then you don't want a room, you want a lease" [Chorus: harmonies higher] Hang the sign on the door Tell housekeeping not yet Call down to the front desk Ask 'em for Tuesday, baby, and see what we get [Bridge: harmonies swell, lead climbing into falsetto] She said it like a punch line, but it turned in me like a key Why we buying us on layaway, a weekend at a time? Every Sunday we hand it back like it was never you and me Baby, I'm tired of renting the only thing that's ever been mine [Verse 3: lead, low and sure] So I hang up on the front desk, and I turn to you instead Ask a whole new question, and it ain't about the time I want a drawer for my socks and the left side of a bed A fight about the thermostat, your last name next to mine A doormat and a junk drawer and a hamper in the hall And a key I never have to slide across a desk at all [Final Chorus: full harmonies, lead riffing over the top] Take the sign off the door Let housekeeping come in We don't need a late checkout Let's go home and keep house, and never check out again [Outro: harmonies and electric piano, lead ad-libbing] Let's keep house [End]
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