Lyrics Valium - The Felice Brothers

Valium

Well, I’m at a motel on the border of Utah and Colorado
There’s an old John Wayne movie on, or I think it’s John Wayne
A bride’s being carried away on horseback into the darkening horizon
The soft murmur of strings and the lowing of distant cattle is like
Valium for the national conscious
Valium, valium
In this warmly beating heart
In this warmly beating heart
My happiness is touch-and-go
Kinda like this motel’s HBO
I’ve been laying here flipping through the channels
A presidential debate
A split second later, a picture-perfect dinner emerges from an oven
That rattle snake never stood a chance against the likes of Annie
Oakley
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
In this warmly beating heart
In this warmly beating heart
The night is too quiet to sleep
And so I’m standing now in the dust of the road contemplating
Heaven
I must have been lost on some kind of excursion up through Colorado I think her
name was Marilyn but I remember nothing else about her
Except that her hair smelled of gunpowder
That’s it for tonight — signing off, signing off
Marilyn, Marilyn
In this warmly beating heart
In this warmly beating heart
Valium, valium
In this warmly beating heart
In this warmly beating heart