Loneliness

Lonely people, or people with lack of friends.

Central theme

• All Alone
• All Alone, All By Myself
• Ana Ng - Loving someone you've never met who lives on the other side of the world
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - A key theme of the song is combating loneliness; "I'm your only friend ... I'm not actually your friend"
• Georgy Girl - "Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there / Inside you"
• HAEC QVOQVE EST RES - "I never leave home", "Nobody visits me"
• Hidden Track - "I am alone in this dark, dark room"
• I Am Alone
• I Haven't Seen You In Forever - "I missed you so much", "Since we've been apart I see that I cannot live without you"
• I'm Just A Note - About a lonesome note in search of friends
• I'm Not A Loser - "I'm not all alone in thinking that I am not all alone"
• Last Wave - "We're naked and alone/And the grave is the loneliest place"
• Leave Me Alone
• New Hampshire - A wandering drunk looking for companionship from strangers; "Here I stand outside the window, longing to be asked inside"
• Sometimes A Lonely Way
• The Spine Surfs Alone
• Too Real
• Tumbleweed
• White Sport Coat - The narrator has been deserted by his prom date, while he is still wearing his prom outfit
• You'll Miss Me

Briefly mentioned

• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "I weep, alone in my wormhole"
• Absolutely Bill's Mood - "He calls when I'm alone"
• Ampersand - "I miss the summer day alone with nothing left to write"
• Announcement L - "It's your friend when you're all alone"
• Burnice - "You talk all alone about all that is known"'
• Corrupted Lyle - "Corrupted Lyle / Alone all the while"
• Cyclops Rock - "Gotta find new friends to hang with"
• Don't Let's Start - "When you are alone, you are the cat, you are the phone"
• How Can I Sing Like A Girl? - "I want to raise my freak flag and never be alone"
• I Am A Human Head - "Now my friend is gone"
• I Broke My Own Rule - “Abandoned by every, every friend”
• It's Kickin' In - "Won't sit down but she just can't sit alone"
• Kitten Intro - "It stands alone, away from the crowd"
• Lesson 16 - "'Ang' / Alone"
• Lucky Ball & Chain - "What's the sense in arguing when you're all alone?"
• Meet James Ensor - "He lost all his friends"
• Moonbeam Rays - "All of those times that I missed you / But you weren't missing me"
• New York City - "I was glad to hear from you 'cause I was all alone"
• Penguin - "All alone in dark"
• Pet Name - "Given time we'll find it strange to be alone"
• Philadelphia - "How did we become so alone?"
• Piece Of Dirt - "A woman's voice on the telephone can convince you you're alone"
• Protagonist - "Man on lawn, alone at dawn", "For exposition, I'm out here on my own"
• Reprehensible - "Each night I lie awake, completely alone"
• Social Media - "But now that I see that I'm all alone"
• Tele-Tele-Telephone - "When I'm all alone"
• Through Being Cool - "Gotta go it alone"
• To A Forest - "Now we're alone in this freaky place"
• Turn Around - "I was out by myself in the graveyard"
• Up The Junction - "Alone here in the kitchen"
• Valentine - "Your soul's isolation"
• You Don't Like Me

Honorable mention

• I Walk Along Darkened Corridors is mislabeled as "I Walk Alone" on some streaming services.

See also:

• Friendship
• Misanthropy