Flophouse Fairies / One song - Three versions

Lyrics

FLOPHOUSE FAIRIES
Flophouse fairies better leave the stage 
They're closing down the little wooden staircase 
Words are rolling down the Benson highway 
The ghosts are gone 
Up the hill, take the cement steps 
The door is open, you can help yourself
 Above the old town and beneath contempt 
You lose your breath 

The walls are thin and the night is old 
Let yourself in from the rain 
The walls are thin and the night is old 
You'll never sleep here again 

Inside the little rooms above the bar 
A different universe a different time 
The little confidences over beer 
Are forgotten here 
A gentle chaos blew from room to room 
We shared a bed, a bath, a stage or two
It was a bygone brothel with a brew gulch view 
To the former you 

The walls are thin and the night is old 
Let yourself in from the rain 
The walls are thin and the night is old 
You'll never sleep here again 

I took myself out, took a wife 
Left the building , Left the life 
We're sliding safely towards oblivion 
Until the ghosts, Are gone, gone, gone 

The walls are thin and the night is old 
Let yourself in from the rain 
The walls are thin and the night is old 
You'll never sleep here again 
…from the rain