Lonely Feeling

Intro: C F C F C F In a long stretch of highway at midnight in New Mexico C F G It's a small colored light that shines from your car radio F C It's the old motel owner who sleeps on a cot F G And gives you the very last hit from her pot C F C F It's a lonely feelin' it's what you've got C F C F It's a lonely feelin' like it or not C F C F It's a crack in the sidewalk right next to the pay telephone C F G It's someone's recorder when you're hoping that someone is home F C It's an hour to kill to do what you please F G But nobody's up for just shootin' the breeze C F C F It's a lonely feelin' it's like a disease C F C F It's a lonely feelin' you pray that it leaves Solo Am F Am F C F C F C F C F It's your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well C F G Yea you try to break through but you've run out of stories to tell F C So you bid him goodbye and you step into space F G So many questions that you cannot face C F C F It's a lonely feelin' taking his place C F C F It's a lonely feelin' that you just can't erase C F C F Well it's three men from Chile who are tired and want to go home C F G They've run out of money and they're stuck up in east Oregon F C So you give 'em the small bit of change in your hand F G You try to speak Spanish but they don't understand C F C F It's a lonely feelin' that gets to a man C F C F It's a lonely feelin' that runs through the land. Guitar solo Am F Am F then C F 6x's Well it's a statue of Jesus your grandmother had when she died G All cracked and all yellow and you know you should throw it aside F C But you're growing religious the older you get F G You haven't been saved but it could happen yet C F C F It's a lonely feelin' full of regret C F C F It's a lonely feelin' won't let you forget C F C F yea it's a bus stop, an street cop, an old dog, the new kid, a bum C F G It's fright and rejected, neglected and blind, deaf and dumb F C But you look in the mirror and you're still hangin' in F G It's there to remind you how lucky you've been C F C F It's a lonely feelin' now and again C F C F It's lonely feelin' that comes from within...... Solo Am F Am F C F G C F