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Paris nineteen fifty-six, number nine rue Git le Coeur |
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Word is out and everybody's beating on the door |
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Madame Rachou will let you in, just smile and ring the bell |
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Welcome to Nirvana at the Beat hotel |
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The sweet smell of Pernod, a Gauloise cigarette |
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It's a cosmic congregation but you ain't seen nothing yet |
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It's an open invitation, an existential clientele |
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All looking for Nirvana at the Beat hotel |
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They looked for it in New York City and San Francisco Bay |
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They looked for in bebop jazz and it blew them all away |
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They tried out every avenue and then said "What the hell, |
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We'll look for it in Paris at the Beat hotel" |
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Burroughs came up from Tangiers, Ginsberg from New York |
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Kerouac came up from Italy and slept out in the park |
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Gregory Corso came and went and where he's at no one can tell |
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He's still looking for Nirvana at the Beat hotel |
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Take me to your leader, take me to the man |
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Someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan |
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If you're looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars |
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You'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars |
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This ragged band of poets, Christians, Buddhists, Jews |
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A new Beat generation searching for the Muse |
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Some found it in the arms of a mystic mademoiselle |
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Looking for Nirvana at the Beat hotel |
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The rooms count up to forty-one, but you can sleep out in the hall |
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For a few centimes you can get a drink and write your poems on the wall |
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And the marijuana mixes with the Tukish toilet smell |
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It's all part of Nirvana at the Beat hotel |
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Alex Campbell strums an old guitar someone picked up in Spain |
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Ginsberg's howling poetry and Kerouac's drunk again |
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The rent is overdue there must be something they can sell |
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Maybe they can sell Nirvana at the Beat Hotel |
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Someone's taking photographs, Janine takes off her clothes |
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Marlene's meditating and concentrating on her toes |
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Jasmine hides in room sixteen and curls up in her shell |
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She's communing with Nirvana at the Beat Hotel |
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Take me to your leader, take me to the man |
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Someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan |
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If you're looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars |
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You'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars |
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They did it for the journey and not for getting there |
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Fame is in a whisper when you pay the taxi fare |
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It's just this side of Heaven and a long, long way from Hell |
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It's somewhere in Nirvana at the Beat Hotel |
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Nothing lasts forever, and forever's in a rhyme |
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It's a Buddha-like connection and everybody has their time |
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If you want to drink the water you've got to dig into the well |
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Maybe then you'll find Nirvana at the Beat Hotel |
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It was over by nineteen sixty-three and everyone had gone |
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But they'd opened up the road and the revolution was getting won |
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When the poems were painted over and they rang the final bell |
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It was goodbye to Nirvana at the Beat Hotel |
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The myth is stronger than the truth, and truth can sometimes lie |
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To see it all for what it was you need an uncorrupted eye |
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Was the journey worth it, only time will tell |
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Still looking for Nirvana, at the Beat Hotel |
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Take me to your leader, take me to the man |
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Someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan |
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If you're looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars |
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You'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars |
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Looking at the stars |
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We'll looking at the stars |
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