Karaoké Nightingale Lane. RAYE

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 and beer-stained and tear-stained

Was a pain that made me colder now

After the oceans I cried

I'm made of steel

Just floatin' now mmh mmh

When I drive down this road

I reminisce

I drive slow

I've let him go now

Just see a ghost town

And sometimes at red lights

I tell myself hah

With closed eyes

Tell myself

To go on, just say

Somebody loved me once and someday somebody will again

Like the way you loved me on Nightingale Lane

Although we never made it stranger you showed me it's true

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

It was right there in early June next to Old Park Avenue

Standing in the rain

I watched him walk away

Yeah pooh pooh pooh

Took me long, hard years to get over you

Was an achin' I refuse to feel again

And lookin' back now we never were quite right for each other baby

But in the absence of passion in my life

I remember how alive love once was

And I sigh when I drive down this road uh

I reminisce

I drive slow

I've let him go now

Just see a ghost town

And sometimes at red lights

I tell myself, in fact I dare myself

With closed eyes to go on, just say it

Somebody loved me once and someday somebody will again

Like the way you loved me on Nightingale Lane

And though we never made it stranger you showed me it's true

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

It was right there in June next to Old Park Avenue

Standin' in the rain

I watched him walk away

Yeah yeah yee yee

Yeah deh deh teh heh

Yeah eh hey 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 believe someday someone will come along

And knock them walls down

And knock them walls 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

I know it

I know it

Someone will love me like the way you loved me

On Nightingale

Lane