(Slow fade)

I can't find you as you sit in one of these rooms
I can't find you in the miles of hallway

I awake to the sound of my mother coughing
Painting portraits of her sons, upstairs, alone
(Coughing rattles me awake)

And I'm back in that endless hotel
Mile by mile, til it's gone

I keep the lights on for former lovers
When they're gone, we keep loving,
Little by little, mile by mile,
Mile by mile til it's gone

(Til it's gone away)

Cutaway to her long jet black hair
Close up on her shining white teeth

Blackout