jon english
the shining
The Colorado Ballroom is alive tonight Masked people waitin' for midnight The gins on the table, drinkable, neat And there's blood and brains splattered on the Presidential Suite  And the ghosts and the screams of yesterdays schemes Echo round the bathroom in two-seventeen And the firehose lies innocent, ready to strike And the dogman sits grinnin', ready to bite  And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights Look at it shinin' (shining), they were calling them at nights Sayin' hey, why don't you stay in the darkness and the dust Why don't you stay awhile and shine with us  Ooh, she lies in her limbo, she bathes and she waits With hedge-lions guardin' the dark and frosted gates there's a little boy, screaming for help with his mind as he hides 'Cause somethins comin' down the corridor with jerky strides  And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were calling them at nights And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights And its all shinin' (shinin'), they were calling them at nights Sayin' hey, why don't you stay in the darkness and the dust Why don't you stay awhile and shine with us  Looks like hell, like hell, Jack Torrance knows it well Look at it bubblin' in the boiler at the Overlook Hotel  Shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights Look at it shining (shinin'), they were calling them at nights Oh look at it shinin' (shinin'), they were blinded by the lights Look at it shinin' (shinin'), they were calling them at nights Sayin' hey, why don't you stay in the darkness and in the dust All you gotta do is die, and you'll shine with