The loner

# 1. THE LONER

**Verse 1**

I know every corner of this little room,

Every crack in the ceiling, every afternoon.

I leave the TV on just to hear somebody speak,

Then turn it down when the silence gets too deep.

I got used to eating dinner for one,

Got used to saying, "I'm fine," when I'm not.

People ask me why I don't let somebody in,

They don't know how hard it is to open up again.

**Pre-Chorus**

I don't hate the world,

I just learned to live without it.

Sometimes being alone

Feels safer than being forgotten.

**Chorus**

I'm the loner, sitting by the window,

Watching everybody else's lives go by.

I got a heart, but I keep it under lock and key,

'Cause every time I gave it away, it cost me something of me.

Maybe I'm lonely, maybe I'm just tired,

Maybe I still hope somebody stays.

But tonight I'll hold my own hand

And let the silence say my name.

**Verse 2**

There was a girl who knew the way I smiled,

She could hear my sadness from a thousand miles.

I thought she'd stay when the weather turned cold,

But some people leave before the story gets old.

I don't blame her, I don't blame me,

Some goodbyes are things we never get to see.

She took a piece of the man I used to be,

But she left enough of him for me.

**Bridge**

Maybe someday I'll open that door,

Maybe someday I won't be afraid anymore.

Maybe somebody will sit beside me

And not ask me to become somebody else.

**Final Chorus**

I'm the loner, but I'm still breathing,

Still finding little reasons to believe.

I may have lost the love I wanted,

But I haven't lost the love inside of me.

So if you find me by the window,

Don't feel sorry when you see me there.

I'm learning how to be alone

Without believing nobody cares.