Panama City Motel

Sugar

Don't you know I need a place to stay

Only fifteen bucks a day

I didn't want to end up here

But now I guess I need to stay



River red, runs like lead

And the smell of kerosene in my head

Stuck in here in this shithole

Reading foreign magazines instead



"But senor, I only have ten dollars,

Can't you give me a room for the night?"

We argue about currency and then

He says I can stay for the night



In this Panama City motel

I am out on the freeway again



A woman approaches in Barcelona

Walking down the Diagonalia

Spaghetti concrete overpasses

I keep grasping for something familiar