Carole King Nightingale Lyrics

Nightingale Lyrics

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






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