written by Robert Earl Keen style of Cross Canadian Ragweed album: Back to Tulsa; Live and Loud at Cain's Ballroom Capo on 5th fret. I use C instead of Cmaj7...it just sounds better to me that way. E-------------------3-| B-------------------3-| G-------------------0-| D-------------------2-| A--------0--2--3----3-| E--3--3---------------| G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a long stretch of highway at midnight in New Mexico G Cmaj7 D It?s a small colored light that shines from your car radio Cmaj7 G It?s the old motel owner who sleeps on a cot Cmaj7 D And gives you the very last hit from her pot G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling it?s what you?ve got G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling like it or not G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a crack in the sidewalk right next to a pay telephone G Cmaj7 D It?s someone?s recorder when hoping that someone is home Cmaj7 G It?s an hour to kill to do what you please Cmaj7 D But nobody?s up for just shooting the breeze G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling it?s like a disease G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling you pray that it leaves G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well G Cmaj7 D You try to break through but you run outta stories to tell Cmaj7 G So you bid him goodbye and you step into space Cmaj7 D There?s so many questions that you cannot face G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling taking his place G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling you just can?t erase G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s three men from Chile who are tired and they wanna go home G Cmaj7 D They?ve run outta money and they?re stuck up in East Oregon Cmaj7 G So you give them the small bit of change from your hand Cmaj7 D You try to speak Spanish but they don?t understand G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling it gets to a man G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling that runs through the land G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a statue of Jesus that your grandmother had when she died G Cmaj7 D All cracked and all yellow and you know you should throw it aside Cmaj7 G But you?re growing religious the older you get Cmaj7 D You haven?t been saved but it could happen yet G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling full of regret G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling won?t let you forget G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a bus stop, a street cop, an old dog, the new kid, a bum G Cmaj7 D It?s fright and rejected, neglected the blind deaf and dumb Cmaj7 G But you look in the mirror and you?re still hanging in Cmaj7 D It?s there to remind you how lucky you?ve been G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling now and again G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 It?s a lonely feeling that comes from within.
