Lyrics Elvis Costello – Room With No Number

Picture a hotel room
Clothes scattered across the floor
Covers pulled back from the pillow
A sign hung on the door

Chorus:
There’s a room without a number
While the sign outside says there’s
no vacancy as you take your key
They smile at you so understandingly

She cried out in the night
Woke the porter from his sleep
He grinned slyly to himself
As he went to fetch his keys
Look what love has brought them to
This terrible nightmare
His or hers he could not tell
As they were sleeping there

Chorus

And I wish he could be
The man he was before he was me

A girl arrived at first light
And enquired if they’d been seen
And why the numbers ran from twelve
Missing out thirteen
And they said oh my darling
Put it down to superstition

There’s a room without a number
While the sign outside says there’s
no vacancy as you take your key
They smile just so so you know

Chorus