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[00:03.09]This is a song about the greatest heartbreak I've ever known
[00:06.52]This song is called "Nightingale Lane"
[00:09.18]On a street in the South London suburbs
[00:15.03]Where my first love kissed me goodbye
[00:20.38]His lips were thin (thin)
[00:22.26]And beer-stained (beer-stained) and tear-stained
[00:25.03]Was a pain that made me colder now
[00:27.97]After the oceans I cried, I'm made of steel
[00:30.57]Just floating now, mm-mm
[00:32.65]But when I drive (when I drive)
[00:35.76]Down this road (down this road)
[00:38.76]I reminisce (lose my mind)
[00:41.55]I drive slow, I've let him go now (ah-ah-ah)
[00:45.66]Just see a ghost town
[00:47.72]And sometimes at red lights (with closed eyes)
[00:52.39]I tell myself, I dare myself to go on, just say
[00:58.93]Somebody loved me once (loved me once)
[01:03.15]And someday, somebody will again
[01:08.04]Like the way you (take me back in your arms)
[01:12.28]Loved me (oh, my love, just tonight)
[01:14.43]On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
[01:18.52]Oh, though we never made it, stranger
[01:23.14]You showed me it's true
[01:25.60]I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
[01:31.08]It was right there (and it was), early June (right next to)
[01:35.37]Next to Old Park Avenue (on Nightingale Lane)
[01:38.92]Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
[01:41.83]Da-whoa-whoa, whoa
[01:45.32]Took me long hard years to get over you
[01:48.71]Was an aching I refuse to feel again
[01:54.19]And looking back now, we never were quite right for each other, baby
[02:00.21]But at the absence of passion in my life
[02:02.63]I remember how alive love once was
[02:05.57]And I sigh when I drive (when I drive)
[02:09.45]Down this road (down this road)
[02:12.32]I reminisce (lose my mind)
[02:15.22]I drive slow, I've let him go now (ah, ah, ah)
[02:19.49]Just see a ghost town
[02:21.49]And sometimes at red lights (with closed eyes)
[02:26.00]I tell myself, in fact, I dare myself to go on, just say it
[02:32.83]Somebody loved me once (loved me once)
[02:36.76]And someday, somebody will again
[02:41.77]Like the way you (take me back in your arms)
[02:45.50]Loved me (oh, my love, just tonight)
[02:48.23]On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
[02:52.28]And though we never made it, stranger
[02:57.18]You showed me it's true
[02:59.06]I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
[03:04.63]It was right there (and it was), in June (right next to)
[03:09.63]Next to Old Park Avenue (on Nightingale Lane)
[03:12.64]Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
[03:16.47]Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah, da-da-da-ay
[03:22.35]I've, I've dabbled in love since, maybe every other summer
[03:26.69]It never lasts long, they never stick around
[03:29.58]I'm made of steel now (I'm made of steel)
[03:32.33]I believe someday, someone gon' come along
[03:35.36]And knock them walls down (down)
[03:37.80]And knock them walls down (down)
[03:40.77]When I drive down this road
[03:47.98]I'm reminded, though I've let him go now
[03:55.51]Right here in this ghost town
[04:01.47]Right here on this ground is where someone once loved me
[04:06.50]And someday, someone will again!
[04:28.26]Someone will, I know it, I know it, I know it!
[04:34.64]Someone will love me
[04:40.75]Like the way you loved me on Nightingale Lane
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