Indigo Girls Life So Strange
"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.
