Why I’m Lonely
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Credits
- Written by Harvey Danger, © But Mom I Love Music (ASCAP)/
Famous Music - Recorded at Bearsville Sound Studios
- Aaron: bass, guitar solo
- Jeff: guitars, piano
- Sean: lead and backing vocals
- Evan: drums, timpani
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Lyrics
St. Leonard touched a Philistine
—a sacred tongue, a perfect rhyme—
but even he was “not much nourished by modern love”1So I told her that everything she does is divine
and she replied with a blank expression
(an object lesson in making me feel benign)
Then whispered, “Independence and indifference
are the wings which allow the heart to fly.”2Feelings I have had too often
still no plan in place to soften the inevitable blow
(The rituals we know)
And with the right revolting piety of tone,
the word “freedom” can make you want to lock yourself
in a deep dark dungeon.But everybody follows pleasure
everybody gets somewhere
I swear: I wish I could be less aware…Now it’s absolutely clear to me
that solitude is not the same as singularity
But that’s not why I’m lonely
No, that’s not why I’m lonely
Quotes
SCN: I remember the first time we ever played “Why I’m Lonely,” looking at the person I wrote it about (same person most of KJV is about) at the Breakroom in 1997, opening for the first of many Posies reunions, and it seemed like we had broken through to a whole new language; lyrical references: St. Leonard Cohen, Inayat Khan (
independence and indifference…).10A