Life So Strange lyrics

Life`s So Strange` is an Emily Saliers song. The only performance I
have of it is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988.
Stylistically, it seems to fit pretty tightly into that time period,
so I don`t think it was written too much earlier than that.


Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain`s just water - it won`t stop from falling down.

I get weary waiting for my muse
But in between the times she comes
I still have to tie my shoes
And get on with my day
There are mornings when I`m with (?)
And there are days I have to take the bus.

Life`s so rich...
Life`s so empty...

Secret rendezvous, long distance from a phone booth
Like two players in a mystery straight out of our youth
Well I`m finding that dramatics have lost their old appeal
I play the part of stoic lover, but I`m not sure how I feel
I get discouraged waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are mornings when Amelia`s right beside me
The next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.

Life`s so rich...
Life`s so empty...

Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain`s just water - it won`t stop from falling down.

As I grow weary, I`m waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are mornings when Amelia`s right beside me
The next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.

Life`s so rich...
Life`s so empty...
Life`s so strange
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