Capital Plaza Hotel

from We're All Adults Here by al Riggs

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I spent the summer
Picking seeds out my gums with a toenail
It's a life a bit more decadent
Than what I was used to

They said some kids died
At the Capital Plaza Hotel
(it was me, I said that
and I'd say it again if I had to)
Let me have this

That old hotel and the highway surrounding
Great place, I think
Great place to save face and cover up
Bodies and asses

And a tiny little percolator still in the box
A use unused, I drink
Only when I'm told to
Avoid the tall glasses
Let me have this

All those kids died for nothing
All those kids, don't die
All those kids went home last night
All those guns got melted down
All those gunmen get to die
And all those kids get to go home tonight.

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from We're All Adults Here, released October 24, 2015

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