
Fancy Gap: “Starlite Motel”
Clip: 4/24/2025 | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Fancy Gap plays “Starlite Motel,” a captivating love ballad filled with lush guitar riffs.
Fancy Gap’s “Starlite Motel” weaves lush guitar riffs into an expansive country-rock ballad.
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Fancy Gap: “Starlite Motel”
Clip: 4/24/2025 | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Fancy Gap’s “Starlite Motel” weaves lush guitar riffs into an expansive country-rock ballad.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[soft rock music] ♪ Girl, I'm writing you ♪ ♪ From a motel room ♪ ♪ On the edge of out of state ♪ ♪ These wood panel walls ♪ ♪ Don't confine me at all ♪ ♪ When I'm floating up in outer space ♪ ♪ Greet the rising sun ♪ ♪ How the West was won ♪ ♪ How it finally fades ♪ ♪ But the lights are so bright ♪ ♪ In the valley tonight ♪ ♪ Just might move away ♪ ♪ I wanted more ♪ ♪ Than I ever did before ♪ ♪ Hated predicting the ending ♪ ♪ Now I need it more and more ♪ ♪ There comes a time ♪ ♪ In all of our lives ♪ ♪ Where we wish we could go back again ♪ ♪ Happened so fast ♪ ♪ Gone in a flash ♪ ♪ We check out before we check in ♪ ♪ And I've heard the predictions ♪ ♪ They're all contradictions ♪ ♪ Of just how this earth's gonna quake ♪ ♪ But I would give my last dime ♪ ♪ Just to buy some more time ♪ ♪ So you and I could just waste it, oh ♪ ♪ I love you more ♪ ♪ Than I ever could before ♪ ♪ Hated predicting the ending ♪ ♪ Now I can't take anymore ♪ [soft rock music] ♪ ♪ But I've always tried ♪ ♪ To find the other side ♪ ♪ Where all those love songs fell ♪ ♪ Into my head at the side of a bed ♪ ♪ Down at the Starlite Motel ♪ ♪ Some were convictions ♪ ♪ And others fiction ♪ ♪ Some sat on the shelf ♪ ♪ Under the gun and under the sun ♪ ♪ And for this one ♪ ♪ We both went through hell, yes ♪ ♪ I love you more ♪ ♪ Then I ever could before ♪ ♪ Hated predicting the ending ♪ ♪ There's always an encore ♪ ♪ Waiting for you ♪ ♪ And I'm right off 52 ♪ ♪ Honey, put on your raincoat ♪ ♪ 'Cause it's about to pour ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah ♪
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