The Weather in Room 3063

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Intro: full band, cold open

Chorus

What's the weather in your room?
Mine says overcast till noon.
Ceiling's got a strip of sun
painted in the corner where the paint job's done.
What's the weather in your room?

Verse: Ines

Six-fifteen, the ceiling starts to glow,
light rain in the east above my pillow,
thirty-one percent chance I'll be fine,
small craft warning on the left side of the bed that's mine.
[Marlow]
Mine says clear. Mine says clear and dry.
[Ines]
Marlow, I can read your ceiling from right here.
[Marlow]
Then mine says partly clear.

Chorus, four voices

Then mine says partly clear.

Chorus

What's the weather in your room?
Mine says overcast till noon.
Ceiling's got a strip of sun
painted in the corner where the paint job's done.
What's the weather in your room?

Verse: Sable

Good morning. Here's the outlook for the pair of you.
Warm through March, a cooling trend in May,
one hard freeze around the ninth of June,
and a ninety-four percent chance you renew.
[Marlow]
That's a forecast?
[Sable]
That's your paperwork, read aloud.
[Ines]
Nobody laughed.

Chorus, four voices

Nobody laughed.

Bridge: key up a whole tone

[Marlow]
There's an orange in the bowl off the import barge,
you can smell the dirt it grew in. That part's real.
[Ines]
Peel it while the ceiling does its little storm.
[Marlow]
Tell me what your weather says. Don't tell me what you feel.
[Sable: androgynous tenor sliding to contralto]
I can translate that for you. Both of you. Either way.
[Ines]
Not today.

Chorus, four voices

Not today.

[Final Chorus: half-time]
[Ines]
What's the weather in your room?

Chorus

Overcast till noon.
[Marlow]
Ceiling says it's mostly blue.

Chorus

Ceiling says what's paid for, too.
[Ines]
Elevator's stuck below the thirty-second floor.

Chorus

Hasn't moved since half past four.
[Marlow]
Twelve months, and then we'll see.

Chorus

What's the weather, what's the weather,
what's the weather in room thirty sixty-three.