Key: C
Introduction: C F
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In a long stretch of highway at midnight in New Mexico
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It's a small colored light that shines from your car radio
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It's the old motel owner who sleeps on a cot
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And gives you the very last hit from her pot
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It's a lonely feelin' it's what you've got
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It's a lonely feelin' like it or not
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It's a crack in the sidewalk right next to the pay telephone
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It's someone's recorder when you're hoping that someone is home
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It's an hour to kill to do what you please
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But nobody's up for just shootin' the breeze
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It's a lonely feelin' it's like a disease
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It's a lonely feelin' you pray that it leaves
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It's your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well
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Yea you try to break through but you've run out of stories to tell
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So you bid him goodbye and you step into space
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So many questions that you cannot face
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It's a lonely feelin' taking his place
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It's a lonely feelin' that you just can't erase
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Well it's three men from Chile who are tired and want to go home
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They've run out of money and they're stuck up in east Oregon
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So you give 'em the small bit of change in your hand
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You try to speak Spanish but they don't understand
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It's a lonely feelin' that gets to a man
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It's a lonely feelin' that runs through the land.
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Well it's a statue of Jesus your grandmother had when she died
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All cracked and all yellow and you know you should throw it aside
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But you're growing religious the older you get
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You haven't been saved but it could happen yet
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It's a lonely feelin' full of regret
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It's a lonely feelin' won't let you forget
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yea it's a bus stop, an street cop, an old dog, the new kid, a bum
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It's fright and rejected, neglected and blind, deaf and dumb
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But you look in the mirror and you're still hangin' in
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It's there to remind you how lucky you've been
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It's a lonely feelin' now and again
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It's lonely feelin' that comes from within......
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