How long I've been here, I cannot tell But I've been going from room to room and suits me well I've been spending the winters builindg a house of shells And i pulled back the curtains at the starlight hotel, at the starlight hotel ♪ And inside my pocket is a torn ticket stub for the cinema of forgotten matinees And the last trace of summer have all but flown from the windblown pavillions At the starlight hotel, at the starlight hotel ♪ And your song, still it comes Through the arcade Where the shutters are down and the wall? are underground And I walked past the sign, tokens for sale And I'll be waking the moths At the starlight hotel, at the starlight hotel