Alone
There’s a point where longing stops being dramatic.
It becomes quieter than that.
Less about the story we tell ourselves, and more about the simple human truth underneath it:
the need to be seen,
the need to be understood,
the hope that something that changed might somehow still feel the way it once did.
Alone lives in that space.
It’s about the strange honesty of realizing that life keeps moving whether we’re ready or not.
People change.
Time changes.
The shape of love changes.
And yet something in us still holds on to the feeling of what it meant when someone was there.
That tension, between what was and what is, sits at the heart of this song.
But what I love most is that it doesn’t fight the truth.
It simply arrives at it.
Today is all we have.
Tomorrow we don’t know.
And for now, we learn how to be alone.
They know
In all the times they had with someone else
By their side and always there to listen
They never showed what it meant
To have them near
They know
Times can never be the way they were
Life is always changing every day
Still they hold out hope that things
Could be the same
That’s for today
Tomorrow we don’t know
But for now I guess we’ll have to be
It shows
In everything they do and that they feel
Things are not the way they used to be
And though they try to hide it
It is clear to see
It shows
Something’s there that they can not forget
No matter how they try to let it be
Nothing that they do
Can make it go away
That’s for today
Tomorrow we don’t know
But for now I guess we’ll have to be
Everybody wants to be in love
Everybody needs to have someone
Everybody dreams of one they’ll meet
Everybody longs to be complete
That’s for today
Tomorrow we don’t know
But for now I guess we’ll have to be
Alone
This song sits in the part of life where there are no villains.
No grand betrayal.
No easy answers.
Just change.
Memory.
Need.
And the dignity of accepting what the present moment actually is.
Sometimes the hardest truth is also the gentlest one:
for now, we have to be alone.
from Fabricated Worlds