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  We went to the room and we bolted the door

  The bass from the jukebox was coming through the floor

  And out through the walls we could still hear the roar of the trains

  Was this all the comfort we got for our sins

  No candles, no waiters, no soft violins

  The dirty electric convector plugged into the mains

  I had wanted much more for the first night with you

  But the Railway Hotel was the best I could do

  I knew the Savoy would have suited you well

  But the best I could do was the Railway Hotel

  Away in the sky were the lights of a jet

  Burning in the night like a slow cigarette

  A lamp in the street threw a soft silhouette on the wall

  And though it was crumbling and run down and dead

  A chair and a sink and an old single bed

  The love we began and the things that we said I recall

  I had wanted much more for the first night with you

  But the Railway Hotel was the best I could do

  I knew the Savoy would have suited you well

  But the best I could do was the Railway Hotel