Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

It's you and me on a beach/ In nineteen-ninety eight

 Leaning into the breeze/ From the willows and rivermen grace

 Are reborn in this place/ I'm assured the procedure is painless

The taxicab with no brakes/ around the mountain pass

 Keep your head in your hands/ if anybody askes what you mean when

 You were picking a fight/ you were only complimenting the waitress

Chorus 1

 Give us a room, with a mountain view:

 A tiny cabana by the water, yeah by the water and I,

 Got a rental for an hour or two, for a ride up the coast

 And a dip in the ocean.

(Repeat Intro)

Verse 2

The waterfront is alight/ with Citronella flame

 Tourists flash in the night/ from the grottoes and

Gathering now on the heel-worn planks for a drunken

 Form another, a mumble (?)

And lovers paddle a boat/ on the molten bay

 Peering into the the reeds/ on a ripple

 And playing it cool/ in a bar by the pool

 With a Caribbean Kiss Amaretto

Chorus 2

 Give us a room, with a mountain view:

 A tiny cabana by the water, yeah by the water and I,

 Got a rental for an hour or two, for a ride up the coast

 And a dip in the ocean.

(Repeat intro)

Bridge

Get a load of the light in the trees and the

Sweet decay on the maritime breeze

The sun's hitching on a weather balloon

 And the heat of the tarmac

Burning a hole in a gold afternoon

(Solo- variation on the intro/verse)

Chorus 3

 Give us a room, with a mountain view:

 A tiny cabana by the water, yeah by the water and I,

 Got a rental for an hour or two, and a bottle and cooler

 With some maps and a big brown towel

 It's a beater, but today will do

 For a ride up the coast, and a dip in the ocean.

Outro

((repeat intro riff) In the ocean (x2))

((repeat intro riff) In the ocean (x2))

End: Fade out.