Cheryl Wheeler - Alice lyrics

Alice works the desk at the East Bay Hotel

In Grand Marais, Minnisota

I came in one night, She said "I loved your show"

We sat and talked on the sofa

She's on her own since her husband passed away

Some surgeon screwed up, there's nothing left to say

Now she works this desk at night and the campground by day

In a trailer by the lake until the summer blows away.

She read about the job in a camping magazine

And home was just a reminder

So she took the cat and dog, stored away her things,

Left the bleakness behind her

Even now through the ache of missing him

She's filled with wonder and far from giving in

She sees magic on the lake in the early morning light

And talking books and telling tales we sat there half the night.

And she said, "The more I travel the more I wanna see

My kids want some settled life for me

I don't wanna move somewhere and grow old quietly

And the more I travel, the more I wanna see."

Well, it's time to make a change, with winter in the wings

And the East Bay Hotel made an offer

But she doesn't really know, 'cause there's everywhere to go

And there's everything that traveling has taught her

Moving marches down busy city streets

Fantastic people she's privileged to meet

And she dreams about Alaska, the snow so deep and white

And that little town in Texas where there's dancing every night.

And she says, "The more I travel the more I wanna see

My kids want some settled life for me

I don't wanna move somewhere and grow old quietly

And the more I travel, the more I wanna see..."