RAYE
Nightingale Lane. lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2026
- Genre
- Pop, R&B
- Length
- 5:03
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 (thin)
And beer-stained (beer-stained) and tear-stained
Was a pain that made me colder now
After the oceans I cried, I'm made of steel
Just floating now, mm-mm
But when I drive (when I drive)
Down this road (down this road)
I reminisce (lose my mind)
I drive slow, I've let him go now (ah-ah-ah)
Just see a ghost town
And sometimes at red lights (with closed eyes)
I tell myself, I dare myself to go on, just say
Somebody loved me once (loved me once)
And someday, somebody will again
Like the way you (take me back in your arms)
Loved me (oh, my love, just tonight)
On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
Oh, though we never made it, stranger
You showed me it's true
I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
It was right there (and it was), early June (right next to)
Next to Old Park Avenue (on Nightingale Lane)
Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
Da-whoa-whoa, whoa
Took me long hard years to get over you
Was an aching I refuse to feel again
And looking back now, we never were quite right for each other, baby
But at the absence of passion in my life
I remember how alive love once was
And I sigh when I drive (when I drive)
Down this road (down this road)
I reminisce (lose my mind)
I drive slow, I've let him go now (ah, ah, ah)
Just see a ghost town
And sometimes at red lights (with closed eyes)
I tell myself, in fact, I dare myself to go on, just say it
Somebody loved me once (loved me once)
And someday, somebody will again
Like the way you (take me back in your arms)
Loved me (oh, my love, just tonight)
On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
And though we never made it, stranger
You showed me it's true
I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
It was right there (and it was), in June (right next to)
Next to Old Park Avenue (on Nightingale Lane)
Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah, da-da-da-ay
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'm made of steel)
I believe someday, someone gon' come along
And knock them walls down (down)
And knock them walls down (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 it, I know it, I know it!
Someone will love me
Like the way you loved me on Nightingale Lane
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Key vocabulary
- next
- after this oneA1
- once
- at one timeA1
- other
- not the sameA1
- park
- area with treesA1
- quite
- completely or fairlyA1
- rain
- water drops fallingA1
- red
- a strong warm colorA1
- remember
- keep in your mindA1
- right
- correctA1
- road
- path for carsA1
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About this song
RAYE is a British South London singer-songwriter born Rachel Agatha Keen. She works across contemporary pop, R&B, dancehall, and gospel and is known for her debut album My 21st Century Blues and charting hits such as “Escapism.”