Текст песни: Riverside Hotel + перевод

Monday morning sidewalk man, sits back to watch the show

The rebar and the wet cement, transistor radio

He takes a pull from a paper bag, across the street on an old park bench

The big machines and rolled blueprints, stir something in his soul

A memory comes winding through the ruin of his mind

The hardhats and the heavy boots, the nail gun’s ringing whine

A jungle with the same sharp sound, his brothers falling all around

They built them up, just to tear them down, and left him half alive

Someday i’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain

But for now i found some peace down by the water, just to watch a building rise

up in the rain

He waits each day til evening comes, the men all drive away

The echo of their hammers linger, voices slowly fade

The lights along the path come on, the scaffolding a skeleton

All the things he dreamed and then forgot, the promises he made

Someday i’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain

But for now i found some peace down by the water, just to watch a building rise

up in the rain

And the moon shines on the river like a dream, and he smokes a cigarette and

falls asleep

And the wind it wanders slow through empty rooms without their walls

And a silence settles over everything

And from the ground it rises up, a riverside hotel

The sidewalk man, he comes to watch near every day until

The ribbon cut and the curtains hung, the reservations filled and gone

And the owner tells him move along, go linger somewhere else

Someday i’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain

But for now i found some peace down by the water, just to watch a building rise

up in the rain

Перевод песни Riverside Hotel