Life So Strange Lyrics - Indigo Girls

"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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