Nightingale Lyrics - The Essential Carole King - Carole King

Like some night bird homeward wingin 

he seeks the sheltered nest 

like the sailor's lost horizon, 

he needs some place to rest 

the songs that he's been singin' 

no longer make much sense 

and those stranger's cold perceptions 

they've killed his confidence 

nightingale, she sails away upon a sea of song 

nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along 

when his tired voice is broken 

his golden hope is gone 

she makes a lost soul's simple longing 

somehow not so wrong 

nightingale, nightingale 

He was strong, but he was taken 

by the thought of his success 

those spotlights shadows 

how they lured him and took him like all the rest 

but that old dream don't look good now 

no it don't seem quite the same 

he needs to hear a tender word 

won't you sing him home again 

nightingale, she sails away up on a sea of song 

nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along 

when his strength is slowly going, 

his pride is all but gone 

she makes a foolish dreamer listen to one last song 

nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale 

oh, na, na, na, na 

nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale 

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in my little town 

i grew up believing 

god keeps his eye on us all 

and he used to lean upon me 

as i pledged allegiance to the wall 

lord i recall my little town 

coming home after school 

riding my bike past the gates of the factories 

my mom doing the laundry 

hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze 

and after it rains there's a rainbow 

and all of the colors are black 

it's not that the colors aren't there 

it's just imagination they lack 

everything's the same back in my little town 

In my little town i never meant nothing 

i was just my father's son 

saving my money 

dreamin of glory 

twitching like a finger on a trigger of a gun 

Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town 

nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town 

nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town 

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