Lyrics - Life So Strange by Indigo Girls

"
Life's
So
Strange" is an
Emily
Saliers song.
The only performance
Ihave 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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