Lonely Feeling

It's a long stretch of highway at midnight in New Mexico

It's a small colored light that shines from your car radio

It's the old motel owner who sleeps on a cot

Gives you the very last hit from her potIt's a lonely feeling, it's what you got

It's a lonely feeling, like it or notWell, it's the crack in the sidewalk right next to a pay telephone

Well, it's someone's recorder when you're hopin' that someone is home

Well, it's an hour to kill to do what you please

Nobody's up for just shootin' the breezeIt's a lonely feeling, it's like a disease

It's a lonely feeling, you pray that it leavesIt's your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well

Yeah, you try to breakthrough but you run out of stories to tell

So you bid him goodbye and you step into space

So many questions that you cannot faceThere's a lonely feeling taking his place

It's a lonely feeling that you just can't eraseWell, it's three men from Chile who are tired and they want to go home

Well, they run out of money, stuck up in east Oregon

So you give 'em the small bit of change from your hand

Try to speak Spanish but they don't understandIt's a lonely feeling, it gets to a man

It's a lonely feeling that runs through the landWell, it's a statue of Jesus that your grandmother had when she died

It's all cracked and all yellow and know you should throw it aside

But you're growin' religious the older you get

Haven't been saved but it should happen yetIt's a lonely feeling full of regret

It's a lonely feeling, won't let you forgetWell, it's a bus stop, a street cop, an old dog, the new kid, a bum

It's fright and rejected, neglected and blind, deaf and dumb

Yeah, but you look in the mirror and you're still hanging in

It's there to remind you how lucky you've beenIt's a lonely feeling, now and again

It's a lonely feeling that comes now and then