Ambassador Hotel (3400 Wilshire Blvd)

One, two, three, four
 I am the night watchman
 I stand by the door
 Some fifteen thousand nights
 I have stood here for
 For all of you actuaries
 That's forty-six years
 They'll be closing up the hotel
 When the morning sun appears
 Wilshire was a wilderness
 When they thought to build this place
 But soon the starlets were arriving
 Like they were runners to a race
 Now twenty-one summers
 On a steep descending slope
 Since that midnight in the pantry
 When the country lost its hope
 Cut the lights off in the nightclub
 Strip the linens from the bed
 Tell the busboys and the bellman
 They better get it through their head
 That they won't be back tomorrow
 And it grieves me to tell you why
 The Ambassador's been bleeding out
 And now they've let her die
 A saturnalia every Saturday
 In the salad day's long gone
 Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford
 Would be wrestling on the lawn
 I shook hands with seven presidents
 I may have flirted with their wives
 But my heart is in the hotel
 When the wrecking ball arrives
 Cut the lights off in the nightclub
 Strip the linens from the bed
 Tell the busboys and the bellman
 They better get it through their head
 That they won't be back tomorrow
 And it grieves me to tell you why
 The Ambassador's been bleeding out
 And now they've let her die
 1968, I won't mention for the hurt
 Except to quote the one who wrote
 That doom was woven on his shirt
 I am a statue in the doorway
 There are no guests, there is no sound
 But for the rasp of plastic palm trees
 And a seagull on the ground
 If they could bury me in the ballroom
 I'd be content to fade away
 With the ghosts as my companions
 Right beyond my dying day
 Cut the lights off in the nightclub
 Hear the walls begin to sing
 Of olden days and golden days
 When Valentino was the king
 No I won't be back tomorrow
 And grieves me to tell you why
 The Ambassador's been bleeding out
 And now they've let her die
 The Ambassador's been bleeding out
 And now they've let her die
 The Ambassador's been bleeding out
 And now they've let her die