Lyrics
Pulled in off the highway When the sun went down red A desert motel, a key on a string One lamp by the bed The pool is dry as a biscuit The ice machine hums But I've slept in worse places, friend And the night is not done Vacancy sign still buzzing Pink on the sand I played behind a hundred names Now I'm a man with a band Let it buzz, let it buzz I'm not going back Vacancy sign still buzzing And I'm stepping up to the mic The clerk says, you a singer? I say, I am tonight He turns the radio down low And leaves the office light Forty years in the back row Keeping everybody's time Now the song is mine to carry And I'm taking my sweet time Vacancy sign still buzzing Pink on the sand I played behind a hundred names Now I'm a man with a band Let it buzz, let it buzz I'm not going back Vacancy sign still buzzing And I'm stepping up to the mic No, I won't be quiet Thank you, I've been kind The moon is out over the cactus And the moon don't mind Morning comes up copper On the road I came to find I leave the key on the table And I leave the fear behind Vacancy sign still buzzing Pink on the sand I played behind a hundred names Now I'm a man with a band Let it buzz, let it buzz I'm not going back Vacancy sign still buzzing And I'm stepping up to the mic Let it buzz Let it buzz I'm stepping up to the mic