Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch) Songtext
von Conor Oberst

Just because you got it
You don′t have to flaunt it
With an endless stream of famous men
Pretty as a portrait
Look like Mamah Borthwick
On that Shining Brow of Taliesin

Someone might try and burn it down
So you'll have to put the fire out
A fortune spent but that′s irrelevant
To build something that's sacred till the end


It costs twenty dollars to visit Fallingwater
It's a perfect house where no one lives
Maybe someone once did but they got evicted by a bus
Load full of greedy tourists

And it would take a time machine
To fulfill all of my fantasies
′Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing
And the only thing that′s sacred till the end

Every time I tempt fate
There's a major earthquake
Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell
Every building damaged
Only one left standing
It was Frank Lloyd Wright′s Imperial Hotel


A rumination in my mind
Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim
And I'm not there yet
But I′m feeling confident to build something that's sacred till the end