Songtext Empty highway Joan Armatrading

Empty highway

Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face
Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face

Sometimes, it feels like the sky is violent
Sometimes, it feels like nobody cars
Sometimes, it feels like I'm on an empty highway
And I'm on a road to nowhere
Yeah, I'm on a road to nowhere

As I watch the street light flicker
Like the dying embers of your affection
As I watch the street light flicker
Like the dying embers of your affection

Sometimes, it feels like we never kissed
I've got no wind dressed in the
Push-and-pull of the tides
Who cares if the world stops spinning?
'Cause I'm a lonely number
Yeah, I'm a lonely number

As I lay me down to sleep
All the birds and the bees
That would sing to all the lovers
That just pass me by (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Even in my dreams
Vivid colours turn to a grey scale
Even in my dreams
Vivid colours turn to a grey scale

And I turn to you and I ask
How can I make things better?
And you say, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's over
And I stand outside in just my underwear and I watch the gentle rain fall
Watch the gentle rain fallin' down, yeah
Watch the gentle rain fall down