Vacant Hotel Lobby

from Of Writing / Of Violence by The Silent Type

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$0.50 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album
Buy Disc

lyrics

With each lover’s bed, there’s still no rest. Must I be alone or dead to get the sleep that I need? Because in-between, I’m on my feet just pacing from room to room like some vacant hotel lobby, where the carpets are worn by footprints of men who’ve paced before me. So choose your key, for it’s your only memory when numbers start to blur.

These locks can only turn directions that move forward in time. There’s no way to return what you’ve already paid for.

There’s a book on my shelf, one that’s been held by many hands, except for mine. Breaking its spine just seemed so drastic. Why wound the words before I’d even read them? What story’s worth that act of blatant violence, when no hero’s work can keep the page from turning toward its certain end?

And still we think there’s hope, and tell ourselves that stories will always work out as the author sets down, with everybody happy that suffering had taught them that patience and pain could make our lives more whole. And don’t you think that’s right? I want to hope that’s right. I need to know that’s right.

credits

from Of Writing / Of Violence, released June 14, 2005

license

some rights reserved

about

The Silent Type Richmond

The Silent Type is an indie rock band from Richmond, VA.

MySpace

contact / help

Contact The Silent Type

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like The Silent Type, you may also like:

Nitelife Music
by Garcon No.1

The Brooklyn-based artist takes on the many sides of nightlife in the city with elegant and eccentric homemade pop. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 29, 2021
go to album
Room Temperature 2
by Garcon No.1

Pretty avant-pop with simple instrumentation and gentle bite from New York's Garcon No.1 cleverly subverts the torch song. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 13, 2020
go to album
Scarlet Holliday
by MONO

An expanded version of 2021's soaring Christmas offering from Japanese rock titans MONO on limited-edition 10-inch vinyl. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 8, 2022
go to album
Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
by MONO

featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 6, 2021
go to album
Our Chemistry is a Tightrope
by porcupine

Hopscotching from jangle pop and post-hardcore to math rock and shoegaze, these Minnesota rockers have a gift for musical multitasking. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 29, 2024
go to album
Head Cleaner
by Hayes Noble

Hayes Noble's version of indie rock blends the blown-out textures of shoegaze and the energy of punk with catchy songwriting. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 21, 2023
go to album
In Now Less Than Ever
by Twin Drugs

Thunderous, imposing shoegaze with thick, syrupy rivers of guitar and drifting, dreamlike vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 9, 2022
go to album