Lonely Feeling

It's a long stretch of highway

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 pot

It's a lonely feeling

Is what you got

It's a lonely feeling

Like it or not

It's a crack in the sidewalk

Right next to a pay telephone

It's someone's recorder

When you're hoping that someone is home

It's an out to kill

Do what you please

Nobody's up

But you shoot the breeze

It's a lonely feeling

That's like a disease

It's a lonely feeling

You pray that it leaves

It's your best friend from high school

Sees you and wishes you well

Yeah you try to break through

But you run outta stories to tell

So you bid'em goodbye

And you step into space

So many questions

You could not face

It's a lonely feeling

Takin its place

It's a lonely feeling

That you just can't erase

It's three men from Chile

Who are tired

And they wanna go home

They're run out of money

And stuck up in east Oregon

So you give'em a smoke

A bit of change from your hand

Try to speak Spanish

But they don't understand

It's a lonely feeling

That gets to a man

It's a lonely feeling

That runs through the land

It's a statue of Jesus

That your grandmother had when she died

It's all cracked and all yellow

You know you should throw it aside

But you grow more religious

The older you get

Haven't been saved

But it could happen yet

It's a lonely feeling

Full of regret

It's a lonely feeling

That won't let you forget

It's a bus stop,

A street cop,

An old dog,

A new kid,

A bum

It's a frightened,

Rejected,

Neglected,

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 been

It's a lonely feeling

Now and again

It's a lonely feeling

That comes from within