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smooka	Date: April 8, 2005 @ 10:46 PM No one can escape the inevitability of this feeling at some point in thier life. Is there any lyrics, poems or art you that you feel can identify with loneliness? This is all in the nature of a University project my good friend is working on. Her and I would appreciate your input and time.
BOWILLIE	Date: April 8, 2005 @ 11:03 PM lonely..im mr lonely... lonely days lonely nights..where will i be without my woman. little child wont you dance with me? im so sad and lonely...baby take a chance with me.. i walk along these lonely streets ..you use to walk alone with me.. im so lonesome i could cry...
GTLive	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 1:05 AM Where Have You Gone? Why? The Backyard Blues Just The Other Day I Dream About You" id="130682">Here's a few... Where Have You Gone? Why? The Backyard Blues Just The Other Day I Dream About You
smooka	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 7:29 AM thank you Gary and Bow...
Hatsy	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 4:40 PM It's like looking into a doorway and seeing a family laughing and joking, oblivious to your presence and knowing you can never go in, never be part of the happiness beyond the threshold. It's like the job that you just got but no one knows your name when you arrive and the blank stares fall through you and make you feel like you landed from Mars. It's like walking through the city on a grey winter day, before the world has risen and you think you are the only person alive... It's like falling into silence in the middle of conversation and forgetting what you were saying as the room comes to a quiet pause and the company looks at you & you suddenly feel the loss of being singled out by your lack of sound. It's like falling unconscious at the school play in front of the stage and all eyes fall on the freak in the audience who just let the parents down. It's like breaking someone's best china vase & knowing you can never repair the friendship or glue the broken pieces to look right ever again. It's like damaging something by your own hand by mistake. It's like an ugliness within, you want to feel right on the outside but you have this ache on the inside that pulls you out of shape & makes you look wrong to yourself. It's like the bus left you on the pavement and you know there won't be another one 'til next week and your whole life falls across the road in that second of blunt realization that you don't matter, you got left behind. It's like a cold swell of water around your head, like not hearing the water closing in, only the feeling of being submerged and the chill of knowing you can't push the water away. It's a letter arriving for your friend when you so badly needed it to be for you, just this once, something to come from outside in, to you, something with your name on it.... That's what it means to me, hope it helps
AbortiveMind	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 5:24 PM Quote: Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding someting to live for, great enough to die for ~ DAg Hammarskjold ~ Some poetry I wrote along time ago... I don't know how I feel There's something so unreal I have no words to explain Feels like my soul has flown away Where did it go, what shall it do Will it come back, or come down on you Maybe that day you'll see that we were ment to be ~ Borty ~ That's my input
AbortiveMind	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 6:27 PM Aww, another thing Most girls start eating a lot when they're lonely and not just anything, everything that's fat and sweet mmmmm
Hatsy	Date: April 10, 2005 @ 7:44 AM Do boys/men eat when they are lonely too?
shadowself	Date: April 10, 2005 @ 1:20 PM Yes. Where's my pizza?
tsand19151	Date: April 10, 2005 @ 3:33 PM "so far away" by carole king. i love the words to that song. helped me though a very lonely period in my life.....
Hatsy	Date: April 10, 2005 @ 7:11 PM Lonely times, I reckon we all get them and we just have to endure them or fight our way back to inner security by finding an outer comfort...just another thought. I think even the word 'lonely' is a lonely, hollow word, it conjures up a sad image for me, just in hearing it said or seeing it on the page....I guess that's why so many songs have this word as it is so descriptive of a very human feeling & one we can all equate to.
GTLive	Date: April 11, 2005 @ 4:37 PM I don't eat when I get lonely, I make up songs & record them, then share them with people on DMusic.
zedsalt	Date: April 12, 2005 @ 12:44 PM Jufbt becodd ibe eedig duv nod meem I'm woney! snarf! gulp!
evansorchid	Date: April 13, 2005 @ 1:37 AM Loneliness, hmmm. I wouldn't be logging on to this website if I wasn't just a wee bit lonely. There's one track that I've posted called "Alone As A Stone" that deals with this topic. You can ignore Zed, I think the 9 volt just went out in his crybaby.
zedsalt	Date: April 13, 2005 @ 12:56 PM "Alone As A Stone" is a killer track! It's not just that the lyrics eloquently convey loneliness; it would still sound lonesome without them. It's not easy to describe; just check out the tune for yourself. You'll see...I mean hear...what I'm sayin'. The Cowboy Junkies' version of the quintessential lonesome song, Hank Srs.' "I'm So Lonesome, I could Cry" is just...well, again, you HAVE to hear it.
evansorchid	Date: April 14, 2005 @ 7:56 AM Holy for the plug. :...Didn't the Cowboy Junkies record their stuff with two microphones in a church?..or something like that. That's close to what I've done. I took a pair of Radio Shack stereo headphones, reversed the polarity, and plugged them into the mic input on my four track and strung them up on the vanity in the bathroom. (I sing better in the shower). You can filter out shower noise if you simply adjust your equilizer. No better place to sing about loneliness than in the bathroom.
Hatsy	Date: April 14, 2005 @ 10:48 AM I just listened to 'Alone as a Stone' serious song, love it Tom Waits also recorded some of his album 'Real Gone' in the bathroom!
zedsalt	Date: April 14, 2005 @ 1:31 PM Yeah, I read that's how they recorded the album that cover was on ("The Trinity Sessions", named for the church). Of course, their twin high-dollar ribbon mics lack the character your headphones have, though. That album was so immediate, so intimate...I've yet to hear anything else of theirs that has appealed to me nearly as much. I've heard/read about a number of things recorded in the bathroom. Somebody should coin a term for that method, if they haven't already. "Johnophonic"? "WCoustic"? "Toiletone"?
Hatsy	Date: April 15, 2005 @ 6:22 AM 'The Flush Effect' 'Sound of the Throne' 'Pottyloops' or even 'Pottypoops'! I'll leave it there, could begin to seriously degenerate at this point.....
Hatsy	Date: April 15, 2005 @ 12:36 PM I'm just wondering how we jumped from loneliness to toilet recordings!
zedsalt	Date: April 16, 2005 @ 12:33 PM The bathroom is definitely one of those places where I can be alone without feeling lonely.
leplume	Date: April 16, 2005 @ 2:34 PM Then you must not have children in your house Zed!
FraDonaghy	Date: April 16, 2005 @ 5:18 PM The difference in being lonely and in being alone is that feeling lonely is wanting to share yourself with other people and not having either the social skills or opportunity to do so - and being alone is taking welcome shelter in solitude. I think everyone must experience it at some stage in their lives, to both understand themselves and their needs. As human beings we crave the affection and approval of others, but also we have that individual part that seeks to protect and differentiate ourselves from other people too. Balancing the two is the challenge for us all.
Hatsy	Date: April 16, 2005 @ 7:16 PM That's a fine observation Frad & eloquently written.... We have a friend who says he is alone but not lonely....
zedsalt	Date: April 17, 2005 @ 12:08 PM Funny you should mention that, leplume. My seven year old nephew recently told me that I wasn't being very friendly when I locked the bathroom door. You have to understand, it's not so much his habit of running into the john and talking to me that bugs me; it's his habit of leaving the door wide open when he leaves.
Hatsy	Date: April 21, 2005 @ 8:57 AM Like waking up in bed and the space beside you is three weeks cold and so empty you could hold the space like sharp edges....