Robert Earl Keen – Lonely Feeling (Guitar)

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It's 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 cup from his pot

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

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It's a lonely feeling, like it or not

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It's the crack in the sidewalk right next to a pay telephone

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It's someone's recorder when you're hoping 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 shooting the breeze

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

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

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It's three men from Chile who are tired and they 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 feeling, it gets to a man

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It's a lonely feeling that runs through the land

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It's your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well

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You try to break through but you've run out of stories to tell

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So you bid him goodbye and step into space

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There's so many questions that you cannot face

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It's a lonely feeling, taking his place

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

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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 feeling, full of regret

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

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It's a bus stop, a 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 hanging in

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It's there to remind you how lucky you've been

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It's a lonely feeling, now and again

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It's only a feeling that comes now and then