Lonely sounding songs

Definitely has a lonely feel to it. Despite being joyful

 

Jonathan King, Everyone's Gone to the Moon:

 

Does this sound lonely to you? It's a bit more up-tempo than one would expect for someone moping away, but the lyrics are about loneliness which is right in the title anyway -

Motors, Love and Loneliness:

 

alone, not lonely

 

Guns N' Roses - Estranged

 

Tori Amos - Winter

 

This version just kills me:

 

any song that starts 4 in the morning usually will be a lonely song

 

The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

 

Junk/McCartney I

Mike Oldfield’s first four albums.

 

The Connells > "Waiting My Turn"

 

The entire second side sounds unbearably lonely

 

Recoil - “Missing Piece [Night Dissolves Mix]

 

need help ( only here thanks ).

can't remember the track name or group of that merseybeat era song with a chorus sort of like..

"lonely, oh so lonely".

pre-chorus was " half past before i die, it seems so funny to me, half past" ( something etc etc )

then "lonely, oh, so lonely".

someone will know - and i thank them in advance.

 

Rush - Limelight



A couple of quotes, courtesy by Wikipedia (I know, I know... but they are sourced!):

Geddy Lee:

"Limelight was probably more of Neil's song than a lot of the songs on that album in the sense that his feelings about being in the limelight and his difficulty with coming to grips with fame and autograph seekers and a sudden lack of privacy and sudden demands on his time ... he was having a very difficult time dealing with. I mean we all were, but I think he was having the most difficulty of the three of us adjusting; in the sense that I think he's more sensitive to more things than Alex [Lifeson] and I are, it's difficult for him to deal with those interruptions on his personal space and his desire to be alone. Being very much a person who needs that solitude, to have someone coming up to you constantly and asking for your autograph is a major interruption in your own little world"

Alex Lifeson:

"It's funny: after all these years, the solo to "Limelight" is my favourite to play live. There's something very sad and lonely about it; it exists in its own little world. And I think, in its own way, it reflects the nature of the song's lyrics—feeling isolated amidst chaos and adulation"

 

Steven Wilson is good at "lonely".

Here's one example from 1999:
Porcupine Tree - A Smart Kid

 

...and another from Steven Wilson"

The Raven That Refused to Sing

A rather evocative video for this one

 

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum

 

Early Mornin' Rain by Petter, Paul and Mary

 

I think you mean 'Laugh,Laugh" by The Beau Brummels