"Life's So Strange" is an Emily Saliers song. The only performance Ihave of it is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988.Stylistically, it seems to fit pretty tightly into that time period,so I don't think it was written too much earlier than that.Cold black coffee, incessant stream of carsCigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey starsYesterday it rained silver rainbows on the groundToday the rain's just water - it won't stop from falling down.I get weary waiting for my museBut in between the times she comesI still have to tie my shoesAnd get on with my dayThere are mornings when I'm with (?)And there are days I have to take the bus.Life's so rich...Life's so empty...Secret rendezvous, long distance from a phone boothLike two players in a mystery straight out of our youthWell I'm finding that dramatics have lost their old appealI play the part of stoic lover, but I'm not sure how I feelI get discouraged waiting for the worldTo understand this love affairTo understand the girlThere are mornings when Amelia's right beside meThe next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.Life's so rich...Life's so empty...Cold black coffee, incessant stream of carsCigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey starsYesterday it rained silver rainbows on the groundToday the rain's just water - it won't stop from falling down.As I grow weary, I'm waiting for the worldTo understand this love affairTo understand the girlThere are mornings when Amelia's right beside meThe next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.Life's so rich...Life's so empty...Life's so strange.