Lonely Feeling Lyrics - Robert Earl Keen

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 pot 

It's a lonely feeling, it's what you've got 

It's a lonely feeling, like it or not 

It'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 breeze 

It's a lonely feeling, it's like a disease 

It's a lonely feeling, you pray that it leaves 

It'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 understand 

It's a lonely feeling, it gets to a man 

It's a lonely feeling, that runs through the land 

It'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 face 

It's a lonely feeling, taking his place 

It's a lonely feeling, you just can't erase 

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 growin' religious, the older you get 

You haven't been saved but it could happen yet 

It's a lonely feeling, full of regret 

It's a lonely feeling, won't let you forget 

It'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 been 

It's a lonely feeling, now and again 

It's only a feeling that comes now and then