Can you hear the silence of being alone?
The deafening stillness
of everything you’ve ever known?
Put on pause like a VHS tape
A full-on heartbreak
And you whine
and cry
and it echoes through the static of a television set.
Can you see the darkness of this void?
Bewildering emptiness of knowing that he had a choice?
Pause
like a checked cassette tape
An empty slate
And you scream and cry and it shakes
through the static of the radio waves.
Can you feel the fabric of being alone?
The rush against your skin
that vibrates all along your bones?
Pause like a broken zipper
A sterling silver whisper
And you shake and shiver from a velvet shimmer
(will you pull it down just a sliver?)
Loneliness never made for a good song
You’ve been singing on your own
all along
Writing records in your bedroom
since 15
Drama queen
Well you’re older now it seems
Loneliness never made for a movie
No blockbuster Oscar, no silver screen beauty
Behind a Technicolor lens since 19
Drama queen
Well you’re older now it seems
Why is everyone so mean?