Lonely Feeling Lyrics

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
And gives you the very last cup from his potIt's a lonely feeling, it's what you've got
It's a lonely feeling, like it or notIt's the crack in the sidewalk right next to a pay telephone
It's someone's recorder when you're hopin' that someone is home
It's an hour to kill to do what you please
But 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 three men from Chile who are tired and they want to go home
They've run out of money and they're stuck up in east Oregon
So you give em the small bit of change in your hand
You 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 landIt's your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well
You try to breakthrough but you run out of stories to tell
So you bid him goodbye and you step into space
There are so many questions that you cannot faceIt's a lonely feeling, taking his place
It's a lonely feeling, you just can't eraseIt's a statue of Jesus your grandmother had when she died
All cracked and all yellow and you know you should throw it aside

But you're growin' religious, the older you get
You haven't been saved but it could happen yetIt's a lonely feeling, full of regret
It's a lonely feeling, won't let you forgetIt'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
But you look in the mirror and you're still hanging in
Its there to remind you how lucky you've beenIt's a lonely feeling, now and again
It's only a feeling that comes now and then