Daemon Hatfield Palestine Hotel song lyrics
Daemon Hatfield Palestine Hotel song lyrics
Let me tell you how I get to work I get into my car
Drive it out to Arlington don't even think about it anymore
Sit in traffic with the other jerks, take exit 44
Drive a half mile underground and then I go to war
Got hired on the DARPA grant, a monthlong fellowship
That was 1999 now I run the fucking ship
In my office there's a picture of the president and me
He's smiling for the camera but only with his teeth
I thought it would be different
in Virginia underground
They said I'd make a difference
They said I should be proud
I wish I could remember
But I'm not allowed
You'll never know what hit you
I'll never make a sound
I spent a year or two behind the sticks
Just lighting up the map
Started double-boxing it
So they sent me to Iraq
They put me up in the Sultan Suite
At the Palestine Hotel
Got some fiber and an M15
And I started raining hell
Two Marines outside the door
And another on the roof
I never left the building once
But it sure beat the commute
By the time they shipped me home
I wasn't sleeping anymore
Got some pills from the Langley boys
And I started seeing stars
I thought it would be different
In the Virginia underground
They said I'd make a difference
They said I should be proud
I wish I could remember
But I'm not allowed
You'll never know what hit you
I'll never make a sound
Last night I had a dream about you
Same as all the rest
Everything in black and white
Except your summer dress
Red dot on a field of static
Moving down below
You're smiling for the camera
But I have to let you go
I thought it would be different
In the Virginia underground
They said I'd make a difference
They said I should be proud
I wish I could remember
But I'm not allowed
You'll never know what hit you
I'll never make a sound