Song Description

if there's a Heartbreak Hotel, what else is out there? here's one possibility

Lyrics

MEMORY COUNTY JAIL

You wake up on a wooden bunk
Splash some ice cold water on your face
Drink coffee from a metal cup
Scrape some oatmeal off a metal plate
But this morning you don't mind it
'Cause you paid your debt and you're out that sliding door
And you're leaving behind you everything that brought you
And you swear you won't be coming back no more

To the Memory County Jail
where there's nothing to do but time
Remember and regret
mistakes you can't forget
and contemplate the nature of your crime
How you threw away good love
to go chasing after bad
and now you've got no love
Just the ghost of what you had
And you couldn't feel more guilty
if you were hammering a nail
into a beating heart
Ain't no night as dark
as at the Memory County Jail

You make it through the afternoon
but then the sun starts fading in the west
Your courage from the morning's gone
and you know all too well what's comin' next
You slink back through the iron gate
Sheriff barely deigns to nod his head
Turn in your belt and wallet
Listen for the door click
Sink back down upon that cold hard bed

At the Memory County Jail
where there's nothing to do but time
Remember and regret
mistakes you can't forget
and contemplate the nature of your crime
How you threw away good love
to go chasing after bad
and now you've got no love
Just the ghost of what you had
And you couldn't feel more guilty
if you were hammering a nail
into a beating heart
Ain't no night as dark
as at the Memory County Jail