Lyrics

?Being Alone?
Capers Simmons

VERSE I
He sits alone next to the window in the restaurant booth
He?s was a player when he was younger, now he?s long in the tooth
He blew his chances with the good ones that he knew in his youth
He turned to liquor, tried to drown there in the scotch and vermouth
He drinks another gin and tonic
Just another alcoholic, it?s true
Drinking alone

VERSE II
She?s by herself in her apartment and she?s watching TV
She?s got her popcorn, got her pizza and her pint of ice cream
She needs the comfort food to fill the hole that loneliness leaves
But nobody likes a fat girl, at least that?s what she thinks
And if she never starts believing
That she?s somebody that?s worth needing she?ll keep
Eating alone

BRIDGE
You?re all alone again, you?re waiting by the phone again
At least for you someday it will ring
You?re brokenhearted now, the nightingale has fallen down
At least for you someday she will sing

VERSE III
There was a man, there was woman?shared a name, shared a home
They had two point seven children. As they watched the kids grow
They drifted further from each other. It all happened so fast
They didn?t know how to recover when they saw it at last
And though they share a bed each evening
There?s a gulf that lies between them. They sleep,
Dreaming alone.

~ BRIDGE ~

VERSE IV
A million stories I could tell you and they all end the same
It doesn?t matter age or color, size or shape, face or name
Because their hearts are treading water, but they can?t stay afloat
And they can?t find their missing pieces in the ocean of souls
And there?s nothing you can do
When you drinking deepest blue on your own
Drowning alone
And it?s only plain to see that
There?s no sadder thing to be than alone
Being alone