Nightingale Lane.

This is a song about the greatest heartbreak I've ever known

This song is called "Nightingale Lane"

On a street in the South London suburbs

Where my first love kissed me goodbye

His lips were thin (thin)

And beer-stained (beer-stained) and tear-stained

Was a pain that made me colder now

After the oceans I cried, I'm made of steel

Just floating now, mm-mm

But when I drive (when I drive)

Down this road (down this road)

I reminisce (lose my mind)

I drive slow, I've let him go now (ah-ah-ah)

Just see a ghost town

And sometimes at red lights (with closed eyes)

I tell myself, I dare myself to go on, just say

Somebody loved me once (loved me once)

And someday, somebody will again

Like the way you (take me back in your arms)

Loved me (oh, my love, just tonight)

On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)

Oh, though we never made it, stranger

You showed me it's true

I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you

It was right there (and it was), early June (right next to)

Next to Old Park Avenue (on Nightingale Lane)

Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away

Da-whoa-whoa, whoa

Took me long hard years to get over you

Was an aching I refuse to feel again

And looking back now, we never were quite right for each other, baby

But at the absence of passion in my life

I remember how alive love once was

And I sigh when I drive (when I drive)

Down this road (down this road)

I reminisce (lose my mind)

I drive slow, I've let him go now (ah, ah, ah)

Just see a ghost town

And sometimes at red lights (with closed eyes)

I tell myself, in fact, I dare myself to go on, just say it

Somebody loved me once (loved me once)

And someday, somebody will again

Like the way you (take me back in your arms)

Loved me (oh, my love, just tonight)

On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)

And though we never made it, stranger

You showed me it's true

I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you

It was right there (and it was), in June (right next to)

Next to Old Park Avenue (on Nightingale Lane)

Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away

Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah, da-da-da-ay

I've, I've dabbled in love since, maybe every other summer

It never lasts long, they never stick around

I'm made of steel now (I'm made of steel)

I believe someday, someone gon' come along

And knock them walls down (down)

And knock them walls down (down)

When I drive down this road

I'm reminded, though I've let him go now

Right here in this ghost town

Right here on this ground is where someone once loved me

And someday, someone will again!

Someone will, I know it, I know it, I know it!

Someone will love me

Like the way you loved me on Nightingale Lane