Nightingale Lane Lyrics – RAYE

Read the full Nightingale Lane lyrics by RAYE from the album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy RAYE's music, you can also explore The Winter Woman and Skin & Bones, two other songs by RAYE.

[Verse 1]
On the street of the South London suburbs
That's where my first love kissed me goodbye
His lips where thin and beer stained and tear stained
It was a pain that made me colder now
After the oceans I cried are made of steel
Just for my own

[Pre-Chorus]
When I drive (When I drive), down this road (Down this road)
I reminisce (I close my eyes), I drive slow
I couldn't go now, I just see a ghost town
And sometimes at red lights
With closed eyes I tell myself
I tell myself to go on, just screaming

[Chorus]
Somebody loved me once (Loved me once)
Someday somebody will again (Will again)
Like the way you loved me (Just the way)
On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
Although we've never made it
Stranger, you showed me it's true
I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
'Cause right there in June
Next to Old Park Avenue on Nightingale Lane
(Nightingale Lane, standing in the rain, I watched him walk away)
Yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]
It took me long, hard years to get over you
It was an aching I refuse to feel again
And looking 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

[Pre-Chorus]
And I sigh when I drive (When I drive)
When I drive down this road (Down this road)
I reminisce (I close my eyes), I drive slow
I couldn't go now, I just see a ghost town
And sometimes at red lights
With closed eyes I tell myself
I tell myself to go on, just saying

[Chorus]
Somebody loved me once (Loved me once)
Someday somebody will again
Like the way you loved me (Just the way)
On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
Although we've never made it
Stranger, you showed me it's true
I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
'Cause right there, right there in June
Next to Old Park Avenue on Nightingale Lane
(Nightingale Lane, standing in the rain, I watched him walk away)
Yeah, yeah

[Bridge]
I'm a devil in a dress
Maybe every other summer never lasts long
They never stick around
I'm made of steel now (Made of steel)
But I believe someday someone will come along
And nothing will stop and nothing will now

[Outro]
When I drive (When I drive)
Down this road (Down this road)
I'm reminded
That though I let him go now
Right here in this ghost town
Right here on this (??)
Someone once loved me
And someday someone will again
Someone will, someone will
I know it, I know it, I know it
Someone will love me
Someone will love me like the way you loved me
On Nightingale Lane