Locked up in a little room in Hollywood
With a heavy heart and a homesick soul
Miles away from the one I love
Sitting on the floor with a record playing nice and slow
Tonight her love's too far away She's sleeping now,
I'm wide awake
I'm staring up at the ceiling fan
Spinning round and round and round again
Listening to Curtis Mayfield
Listening to Curtis Mayfield
December wears the snow, it's a new town
A new low, another lonely night
And how do you make friends when you know no one?
Everybody's smiling in the California sun
But when night comes and the streets are bare
You're all alone,
there's no one there I'm sitting here watching the window pane
Just looking for someone or something to pass this way
Listening to Curtis Mayfield
Listening to Curtis Mayfield
I remember the feeling, I remember it well
Ten days in August,
being under your spell
Driving across the desert in the starlight Shining in your eyes
Gazing up at the big sky As we crossed
New Mexico in the middle of the night
Listening to Curtis Mayfield
Listening to Curtis Mayfield
Listening to Curtis Mayfield Listening to Curtis Mayfield