Misanthropy

Songs expressing a strong fear or dislike of contact with other people.

Central theme

• All Alone
• Bastard Wants To Hit Me
• The Bullies
• Can't Keep Johnny Down
• Crystal Fortress
• D & W – "D is shy and doesn't get out of the house much anymore"
• Gazing Out Toward - "Quit looking at me"
• Hey Everybody - "Hey everybody! Go away!"
• If I Wasn't Shy
• I Am A Human Head – "I don't really need my best friend"
• I Haven't Seen You In Forever – "I'm so annoyed cause I forgot how much you bug me", "Go away and leave me alone"
• I'm Not A Loser
• I'm Sick (Of This American Life) - "Quit bugging me, go away" "I didn't come here to socialize"
• I've Been Seeing Things – about someone paying attention to (and at the same time trying to avoid) a woman with a suspicious violin case
• Leave Me Alone
• Mainstream U.S.A.
• Man, It's So Loud In Here
• No One Knows My Plan
• NVNC AVT NVMQVAM - (transl.) "I was angry and ill-mannered", "By trying to deceive / I ended up shy", "Each day when I see you in the forum / My courage drains away"
• Social Media
• Stand On Your Own Head
• TECVM CIRCVMAMBVLARE NOLO - (transl.) "I don't want to walk around with you / Why then do you want to walk around with me?"
• Thankful For Your Service – Someone who's almost too antisocial to be a dutiful patriot
• Through Being Cool
• What Did I Do To You?
• What Is Everyone Staring At?
• Window – "I'm checking out the people in the window/I was uncomfortable/Now I'm uncomfortable"

Briefly mentioned

• 7-11 – "I slipped by the 7-11 / My hat over my eyes / As not to be noticed / Or even recognized"
• Cage & Aquarium – "Somebody's reading your mind / Damned if you know who it is / They're digging through all of your files / Stealing back your best ideas"
• Christmas In The Big House – "Hoping I'll be alone (Happy New Year) next year"
• Cyclops Rock – "I just stare with my one glass eye / Hoping you won't be back again"
• Dark And Metric – "No privacy glass / Privacy glass"
• Dog – "He's the kind of dog who sees a smiling friend and says 'I need no smiling friend today'"
• Gudetama's Busy Days – "Though you need some brand new people / You don't trust the lot of them / So you're moving on"
• Hearing Aid – "Sometimes I feel sorry for him / Usually I can't / I've turned off my hearing aid"
• Hovering Sombrero – "Don't be shy/Don't be terrified"
• James K. Polk - "He held few people dear"
• Meet James Ensor – "He didn't need his friends"
• Memo To Human Resources – "I'll be in the back and I don't need the help / I'm good here in the back / I'm good all by myself"
• Metal Detector – "Down at the shore there's a place where there's no one vacationing" and "Don't need to look at any bathing beauty doll"
• Maine – "Only if you stay away / And leave me to my ugly state"
• Now Is Strange – "I could remove my apartment buzzer"
• Protagonist – "For exposition / I'm out here on my own"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head – "Didn't have to write no one a goodbye note"
• Rest Awhile – "He won't even talk to me now, but I don't care cause I'm sick of that guy"
• Turn Around – "A man I had recently killed / Called me up from a phone near my building / So I looked out the window at him / He had the same obsequious manner / That was the reason I had him killed"
• Wearing A Raincoat – "And the undead are like / A bunch of friends / That demand constant attention"
• Welcome To The Jungle – "See how the bug reacts to your hand / In the same way that I do"