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#1

Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:51am

Can anyone advise me of some songs abouot lonliness or the feeling love is never going to come your way? Arguably not songs about having loved and lost (although that's just me being fussy in my despair).

Currently loving:

Who will love me as I am
All by myself
All time love (on Will Young's new album)
Love is on the way
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#2

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:55am

The song "On My Own" from Les Miserables is one of the most beautiful songs about loneliness.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#3

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 3:01am

Oh yes, that's a good one. Totally forgot. By the way, I realised mt original post sounds a bit depressed, trust me, it's not, I'm just having a slight indulgence in self-pity.
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#4

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 3:10am

Oh but we all have those moments...
The song "I Read" from Passion slightly relates to the idea of loneliness (kind of), it's an amazing song composed by Mr.Stephen Sondheim and flawlessly performed by Ms.Donna Murphy.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#5

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 3:54am

songs about loneliness, hmmm let's see....

who i am from jeckyll and hyde (sortof, says something about nobody caring), also someone like you, sortof too
i'm all alone (spamalot) - or the funny side at any rate
i'm with you (avril lavigne)
all the love in the world (american sweethearts film theme - i forget who sings it.)
being alive (company)

can't think of many more right now, hope this helps...
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
#6

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 4:13am

"I'm All Alone" - Spamalot
"Happily Ever After" - cut from Company, but has been recorded
#7

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 5:00am

"Gethsemene" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"Nothing Like You've Ever Known" - Song & Dance
"Little Lamb" - Gypsy
"Home" - The Wiz
"Stay with Me" - Into the Woods
"Almost a Love Song" - Victor/Victoria
"Money Tree" - The Act
"There never was a Baby like my Baby" - Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
"When it Ends" - The Wild Party
"And I am telling You" - DREAMGIRLS
"The Garden Path to Hell" - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
and some off the B'Way path:
"Alone Again, Naturally"
"Brandy"
"All of Me"
"The Stranger" (Judy Collins)
"Since I don't have You"
"Papa, Can you hear Me?"
"There was a time" (Mrs. Brolin & Barry Gibb)
"Left in the Dark Again" (Mrs. Brolin)
"Niagra" (Mrs. Brolin)
"Stay with me Baby" Bette Midler
"How I want to deserve You" Bette Midler
"Fried Eggs/ Hello in There" Bette Midler
wow, sooooo many
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor
#8

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 7:52am


Learn to be Lonely - The Phantom of the Opera

Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try -South Pacific
#9

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 8:38am


WHAT MAKES LOVE HAPPEN? (Walking Happy)

LONELY HOUSE (Street Scene)


Jerusha Bromley
WAlpole. Massachusetts
#11

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 9:54am

Learn to be Lonely from the Phantom movie is a gorgeous song.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#12

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:44pm

"Anything but lonely" from Aspects - one of my favourite 11 oclock numbers and very powerful.
#14

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 3:30pm

Heartbreak Hotel - good choice.

Any more BWers?
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#15

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 4:30pm

I hate the bus- Caroline, or Change
More- The Wild Party
Still Hurting- L5Y
#16

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 4:37pm

"The Party's Over" from Bells are Ringing

"Where in the World" from The Secret Garden

"Mister Cellophane" from Chicago
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#17

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 4:41pm

IF LOVE WERE ALL, one of my all time favorites.
SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST, another gem.
Mind is Mantra.
#18

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 4:44pm

My Friend the Dictionary
The I Love You Song--both from Spelling Bee
#20

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 4:51pm

Alone in the Universe from Seussical is another bway one
"With only so much time to spend, don't want to waste the time I'm given!" ~Tick Tick Boom
#22

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 5:04pm

"Someone Else's Story" from Chess. It's not precisely about loneliness but in the same vein.
#24

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 5:36pm

A very recent one is "At the Glen" from DESSA ROSE. It's all about the loneliness and isolation of a woman abandoned by her husband.

LC
#25

re: Songs about loneliness

Posted: 1/9/06 at 5:43pm

Alone In The Universe - Seussical, I second it.

No One Is Alone - Into the Woods...my personal favorite song about loneliness.

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