CHEAP MOTEL

I've been drifting from state to state
From town to town chasing my fate
Working just enough to sleep and eat
A man never knows who he might meet

At a cheap motel - cheap motel
Where I've been I'll never tell
Riding down the highway bound straight for hell
And check into a cheap motel

I had a girl once but it didn't work out
She wasn't happy traveling about
She expected too much of me
She wanted a home and security

Instead of cheap motels - cheap motels
Where I've been I'll never tell
Riding down the highway bound straight for hell
And check into a cheap motel - a cheap motel

From the Motel Six in Tucson, Arizona
To the Do Drop In in Lawton, Oklahoma
Going to spend my winters in New Mexico
Where the nights are long and the days are slow
The nights are long and the days are slow

The cops come knocking one day at dawn
And I got arrested for building a bomb
Two days later they cleared the cell
And drove me back to this cheap motel

Cheap motel, cheap motel
Where I've been I'll never tell
Riding down the highway bound straight for hell
And check into a cheap motel

Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' 1997 album Coming Home included four tracks co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky:

• I'M NOT SLEEPING
• CHEAP MOTEL
• 1945
• IDIOT'S DELIGHT