Ambiguous Motel along Interstate 95: The Wedding Night

Love consummated through le cheap tattoo

In a heart-shaped bed, with pink satin sheets AND a mysterious stain that scares me a bit

In a hotel naturally connected to old Uncle Lou

There is the lingering musk of a beast wronged (times two)

By their mate, who could not keep it in their pants (So, to speak...) or admit

Love consummated through le cheap tattoo

Check-in doesn't mean that the monster's motives are as fluffy as cotton candy blue

Or are for real or even for certain. But, I know from past experience, you are a candle lit

In a hotel naturally connected to old Uncle Lou

She's nervous and he's too over-confident—But are you?

Because it hasn't been a long, long, long time since I've felt like shit

Love consummated through le cheap tattoo

The jungle smells of vomit and the heat of the moment. In nine months a baby will coo

And the headlights from civilization (already) remind us that we sit

In a hotel naturally connected to old (sleazy) Uncle Lou

The TV is too loud for the animals to heed warning to

The loss of love and the harm (or lack there) of penetration. So we call it,

Love consummated through le cheap tattoo

In a hotel naturally connected to old Uncle Lou