Lyrics

I?m a Loner
Melody Lewis
copyright October 28-30, 2001

I?m standing outside of the supermarket waitin? for a ride.
There?s a chill in the air; throw my hood over my head I notice I?m all by myself.
And I notice that happens a lot.
Cars going back and forth ? people warm inside ?carrying on conversations.
Wonder if any of them will go home and put pencil to paper and mention me
I?m all up in their lives and they don?t even know I?m here
And while I?m standing here waitin? for this ride,
A thought and a little tune comes into my head:

Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone

So I walk around downtown; must pass by a million strangers
And I might as well be invisible, cause nobody seems to notice me no matter what I?m wearing.
Sometimes I think I could strip down naked with my pocketbook slung over my shoulder and just keep on walking.
I wonder if anybody would stop and throw a jacket over my shivering shoulders.
Every once in awhile I get a smile and a ?good morning? or a nod ?hello?,
Oh look at that?? social interaction, yeah!

Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone

Sometimes you can be in a crowd of hundreds of people and still be all by yourself
And that?s really not a bad thing
Or you can be all alone wasting energy trying to be connected to everybody else
But you only manage to be disconnected from yourself
I know you know what I?m talking about now
You can be alone without being lonely if you just learn to be
your own good company,
like me??..celebrate!

Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone

Now it?s after the show and I gotta go I?m ridin? in style in a stretch limo
And I can see the fans coming out of the stands
I?m hanging out the window; waving my hands.
I get back in, roll up the window and the noise goes dead
In the rearview mirror I lock eyes with the limo driver
His lips are moving and main man is a-boppin his head
So I tap on the glass, it slides down, the radio blasts, and
What do you think the limo driver said?
That?s right, yeah, sing
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone
Drive on driver, it?s me and you now.
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, and that?s not a bad thing
Ooooooooh Oh, I?m a loner, but I don?t have to be alone

(Rock out adlib)

Alternate verse
So life threw out a word and dared me to come up with a song
And it didn?t take me long to come up with the words you heard
Because it?s one of those songs that just writes itself.
You open your mouth and let the truth come out.
Now you tell me where it ends and I hope you don?t ask me to sing it again
Because I?ll never remember what I said, and I
Hope you had the record button on, because this is the end of the song??.. sing

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