[00:00:00] Beat Hotel - Stockfisch Records [00:00:24] Paris nineteen fifty six [00:00:26] Number nine rue Git le Coeur [00:00:29] Word is out and everybody's [00:00:31] Beating on the door [00:00:33] Madame Rachou will let you in [00:00:36] Just smile and ring the bell [00:00:38] Welcome to Nirvana [00:00:42] At the Beat hotel [00:00:49] The sweet smell of pernod [00:00:51] A gauloise cigarette [00:00:53] It's a cosmic congregation [00:00:55] But you ain't seen nothing yet [00:00:58] It's an open invitation [00:01:00] An existential clientele [00:01:03] All looking for Nirvana [00:01:06] At the Beat hotel [00:01:13] They looked for it in New York City [00:01:15] And San Francisco Bay [00:01:18] They looked for in bebop jazz [00:01:20] And it blew them all away [00:01:22] They tried out every avenue [00:01:25] And then said what the hell [00:01:27] We'll look for it in Paris [00:01:31] At the Beat hotel [00:01:37] Burroughs came up from tangiers [00:01:39] Ginsberg from New York [00:01:42] Kerouac came up from Italy [00:01:44] And slept out in the park [00:01:46] Gregory Corso came and went [00:01:49] And where he's at no one can tell [00:01:51] He's still looking for Nirvana [00:01:55] At the Beat hotel [00:02:01] Take me to your leader [00:02:03] Take me to the man [00:02:06] Someone has got the answer [00:02:08] Someone's got the perfect plan [00:02:10] If you're looking in the alleys [00:02:13] If you're looking in the bars [00:02:15] You'll find us in the gutter [00:02:19] Looking at the stars [00:02:30] This ragged band of poets [00:02:32] Christians Buddhists Jews [00:02:34] A new beat generation [00:02:37] Searching for the muse [00:02:39] Some found it in the arms [00:02:41] Of a mystic mademoiselle [00:02:44] Looking for Nirvana [00:02:48] At the Beat hotel [00:02:54] The rooms count up to forty one [00:02:56] But you can sleep out in the hall [00:02:58] For a few centimes you can get a drink [00:03:00] And write your poems on the wall [00:03:03] And the m*******a mixes [00:03:05] With the tukish toilet smell [00:03:08] It's all part of Nirvana [00:03:11] At the Beat hotel [00:03:17] Alex Campbell strums an old guitar [00:03:20] Someone picked up in spain [00:03:22] Ginsberg's howling poetry [00:03:24] And kerouac's drunk again [00:03:27] The rent is overdue [00:03:29] There must be something they can sell [00:03:32] Maybe they can sell Nirvana [00:03:35] At the Beat hotel [00:03:41] Someone's taking photographs [00:03:44] Janine takes off her clothes [00:03:46] Marlene's meditating [00:03:48] And concentrating on her toes [00:03:51] Jasmine hides in room sixteen [00:03:53] And curls up in her shell [00:03:55] She's communing with Nirvana [00:03:59] At the Beat hotel [00:04:05] Take me to your leader [00:04:07] Take me to the man [00:04:09] Someone has got the answer [00:04:12] Someone's got the perfect plan [00:04:14] If you're looking in the alleys [00:04:16] If you're looking in the bars [00:04:19] You'll find us in the gutter [00:04:23] Looking at the stars [00:04:33] They did it for the journey [00:04:35] And not for getting there [00:04:38] Fame is in a whisper [00:04:40] When you pay the taxi fare [00:04:42] It's just this side of heaven [00:04:45] And a long long way from hell [00:04:47] It's somewhere in Nirvana [00:04:51] At the Beat hotel [00:04:57] Nothing lasts forever [00:04:59] And forever's in a rhyme [00:05:01] It's a Buddha like connection [00:05:03] And everybody has their time [00:05:06] If you want to drink the water [00:05:08] You've got to dig into the well [00:05:10] Maybe then you'll find Nirvana [00:05:14] At the Beat hotel [00:05:20] It was over by nineteen sixty three [00:05:22] And everyone had gone [00:05:25] But they'd opened up the road [00:05:26] And the revolution was getting won [00:05:29] When the poems were painted over [00:05:32] And they rang the final bell [00:05:34] It was goodbye to Nirvana [00:05:38] At the Beat hotel [00:05:44] The myth is stronger than the truth [00:05:46] And truth can sometimes lie [00:05:48] To see it all for what it was [00:05:50] You need an uncorrupted eye