I wanted to write about this topic, as I am certain I am not the only person who listens to what I call lonely music.

I have music playing all round me at most times of the day. In each room where I live there is an iPod and dock playing continuously. One of my aims in having my own place was to have music playing in the rooms I live in.

Like right now the computer is playing from my playlist.

 

Lonely music is what I play when I am feeling down.

That must be more often than I am admitting for I find myself listening to it more often than not.

 

I will talk about three songs today that I call lonely songs.

These are songs, which if I am not careful can make me cry.

Firstly Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now.

 

 

 

There is a series of lyrics in this song:

And I wonder if I ever cross your mind

It’s a quarter after one I’m a little drunk and I need you now

….I just need you now…

 

I think everyone wants to feel they are wanted. One blogger called it the need to feel ‘treasured’. I think all of us feel like that.

 

There are thousands of songs about unrequited love. Some one once asked me:

 

You must have lovers knocking on your door?

Yes I do, trouble is they on the inside trying to get out.

 

There is an amount of pain in the line: ‘I wonder if I ever cross your mind.’

This song sings of desperation and wanting to be needed. I think many of us feel that often.

 

The next song is Mr. Rock and Roll by Amy McDonald.

 

This is a song about lonely people and people who realize too late that their love is there but they have missed the one chance they had.

 

Mr. Rock and Roll is dancing on his own again

…..he’s got no where to go he’s on his own again

 

and they’ll meet one day far away and say I wish I was something more

and they’ll meet one day far away and say I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before.

I wish I know you, I wish I met you and time was still on my side

 

And they’ll meet one day
Far away

 

 

And say “I wish I was something more”
And they’ll meet one day
Far away
And say ” I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before”

 

And they’ll meet one day
Far away
And say “I wish I was something more”
And they’ll meet one day
Far away
And say “I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before”

He says “I wish I knew you, I wish I met you
When time was still on my side”
She’ll say ” I wish I knew you, I wish I loved you
Before I was his bride”

 

The song lyrics speak for themselves and this song I have liked for a long time.

 

Rod Stewart’s Downtown Train

 

Will I see you tonight?

On a downtown train

Every night, every night is just the same,

On a down town train

 

For me is the loneliness of the commuter, seeing the same person each night, having the same feelings each night and never doing anything about it, being too shy to act on his impulses.

This song I relate to very well.

If you have read by pieces Woman in the Supermarket and Angela’s Blog in both cases they were people I observed for a long time and when I did make contact they ran like crazy. I must be a crazy person!!

 

The final piece to mention and for me the epitome of the lonely song is john Barry’s Midnight Cowboy theme.

 

There is a haunting harmonica solo throughout and if you listen to it as many times as me you can’t help but feel this music captures all the loneliness in the world.

The sliding scales of the harmonica, the atmosphere of desolation that the music evokes is a masterful composition but for me it is all things lonely.

 

As I said earlier there are hundreds of lonely songs these are just some of mine.

 

Do you have songs you consider lonely?

 

Please tell me yours.