[Intro – piano] [Verse 1] There's a room on the seventh floor With a key nobody needs And a woman at the counter Who remembers everyone who leaves She said, “You’ve been here before, sir” I said, “I think you’re wrong” Then she handed me a photograph Of me when I was young [Verse 2] There’s a paper moon above the bed A painted silver sky And a little wooden aeroplane That never learned to fly Someone left the window open Though the curtains never move And somewhere down the corridor A radio plays a tune [Chorus] At the Paper Moon Hotel You can stay as long as you like Where tomorrow rings the bell And yesterday sleeps through the night At the Paper Moon Hotel Every door leads somewhere else And the strangest thing of all is— I feel more like myself [Instrumental – clarinet / piano] [Waltz section] One, two, three, Turn the key One, two, three, Who were we? There goes Monday There goes June There goes someone I once knew [Return to 4/4] [Verse 3] In the morning there was sunlight And the room was number nine The photograph had disappeared The wooden plane was mine I asked the woman at the desk How long I’d been asleep She smiled and said, “About a life.” Then handed me the key [Final Chorus] At the Paper Moon Hotel You can leave whenever you please There’s a world outside the window And a suitcase full of keys At the Paper Moon Hotel Nothing stays and nothing ends You just wake up somewhere different And begin again [Outro – piano / soprano saxophone]
