Songs about loneliness- Page 2

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 4:04am

Halloween from Rent--when the relationships have fallen apart, Mark is certainly alone, and the last line haunts me.

[MissMonika]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 4:32am

I don't know if it's considered a lonely song but Rent's "Will I" seems like it. The overall tone of the song is solemn. Um...my brain is dead right now but when I think of more, I'll post again. I kno it's not a Broadway song but "Mr. Lonely" fits the bill (hehehe).

[liz328]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 4:45am

I have a playlist for such occasions...

A lot of the songs I would suggest have already been mentioned: Learn to Be Lonely, Will I, No One is Alone, etc.

I would also recommend "Leaving's Not the Only Way to Go" from Big River, "I Know the Truth" from Aida, and "What You Own" from Rent. (For non-Broadway, I like Sarah McLachlan's "Fallen", Papa Roach's "Scars", The Killer's "Mr. Brightside, and John Mayer's "Love Song for No One")

I think you mentioned "All By Myself" in the original post. I definitely pulled a Bridget Jones and sang and cried along with that one in the car the other day.
Updated On: 1/10/06 at 04:45 AM

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 12:10pm

Parsley, I agree. 'Anything But Lonely' is one of my favorite 11 o'clock numbers as well.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 12:23pm

when there's no one from CARRIE

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 1:21pm

STRANGER IN THIS WORLD
from TABOO

[Color and Light]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 1:34pm

"Finishing The Hat" - Sunday in the Park with George.

[Jon]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 1:40pm

I like a medley of Lonely Room (Oklahoma), Lonely House (Street Scene), and Lonely Town (On the Town).

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 1:47pm

CurtainPullDowner I was JUST about to say that! I love that song. Pretty Lies from that show is also a very good loneliness song, as is Talk Amongst Yourselves. Actually, most of the songs in that show at least stem from the theme of loneliness and masking your true feelings... :P

[Attendthetale331]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 2:48pm

Here is a list

"Music Of Heaven"- Jason Robert Brown (it's inpirational but begins with loneliness)
"A Really Lousy Day in the Universe"- A New Brain
"So Many Little Things"- Bright Lights, Big City
"Will I" - Rent
"No Body Needs to Know"- The Last Five Years (how a relationship is falling apart.

[dented146]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 9:43pm

What Kind of Fool Am I? " Stop the World I Want To Get Off"
( Appropriate from me) Updated On: 1/10/06 at 09:43 PM

[Dramatic_Irony]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 10:23pm

"Anything but lonely"- Aspects
"Halloween" -RENT

[jczelyph]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 6:27pm

Thanks gang! All excellent choices for invoking melancholy. Any more?

[LilBwayLady]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 6:58pm

"Here Alone" from Little Women
"How i am" from Little Women
"Evermore without you" Women in White
"If i could only dream this world away" (kinda) Women in White

[grizzabella]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 7:37pm

If "Send In The Clowns" (A Little Night Music) ain't lonely, I don't know what is.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 8:17pm

LONELINESS OF EVENING (Rodgers/Hammerstein)


Nellie Forbush
Guadalcanal, South Pacific

[wexy]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 8:20pm

"So Lonely" The Police

and
"Alone in the World" Mr Magoos Christmas Carol
Really wierd cause that gets the tears rollin'

[Isabella2]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 9:42pm

i'd say "Sunrise Letter" from passion.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 9:55pm

A Quiet Night At Home-- Bare

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 9:59pm

Stranger in this World - TABOO