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

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