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 k** 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