In 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 hit from her pot
It's a lonely feelin' it's what you've got
It's a lonely feelin' like it or not
It's a crack in the sidewalk right next to the pay telephone
It's someone's recorder when you're hoping that someone is home
It's an hour to kill to do what you please
But nobody's up for just shootin' the breeze
It's a lonely feelin' it's like a disease
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
Yea you try to break through but you've run out of stories to tell
So you bid him goodbye and you step into space
So many questions that you cannot face
It's a lonely feelin' taking his place
It's a lonely feelin' that you just can't erase
Well it's three men from Chile who are tired and 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 understand
It's a lonely feelin' that gets to a man
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
All cracked and all yellow and you know you should throw it aside
But you're growing religious the older you get
You haven't been saved but it could happen yet
It's a lonely feelin' full of regret
It's a lonely feelin' won't let you forget
yea it's a bus stop, an 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 hangin' in
It's there to remind you how lucky you've been
It's a lonely feelin' now and again
It's lonely feelin' that comes from within
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