You Dont Know What Its Like to Be Alone

FlourishAnyway believes there is a playlist for just about whatever situation and is on a mission to unite and entertain the world through song.

Feeling lonely, loveless, and socially isolated? Make an "I'm So Lonely" playlist using our long list of pop, rock, and country songs. — Feeling solitary, loveless, and socially isolated? Brand an "I'm Then Lone" playlist using our long list of pop, rock, and country songs.

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The Best Songs About Being Alone

With almost 7.v billion people in the globe, how could anyone be lonely? Many of us may feel temporary (i.e., "transient") loneliness when:

a loved one dies
a marriage or important human relationship ends or
we're new to a school, task, or community.

All the same, with weakened social ties, 1 out of five Americans feels chronically lonely. And for adults over the age of 45, it'south one in three. If you're one of them, then you take a lot of company.

There are many pop, stone, and country songs well-nigh social isolation, loneliness, and existence alone. Make yourself a playlist using the long list of songs we've put together.

Elevation xx Songs About Being Lonely


Song	Artist
1. Astronaut	Simple Programme
ii. Only the Lonely	The Motels
3. Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Green Twenty-four hour period
4. Cool Kids	Echosmith
5. She Don't Honey You	Eric Paslay
6. Lonely	Akon
7. Foolish Eye	Steve Perry
8. Everybody'southward Got Somebody but Me	Hunter Hayes
9. You Don't Even Know Who I Am	Patty Loveless
x. Here I Go Again	Whitesnake
11. Bulldoze	The Cars
12. Nobody Knows	Kevin Sharp
13. I Miss My Friend	Darryl Worley
14. All By Myself	Eric Carmen
xv. Best I E'er Had	Gary Allan
16. Away From the Sunday	3 Doors Down
17. The Lone	Christina Perri
18. Another Lone Night	Adam Lambert
xix. Need You Now	Lady Antebellum
20. Dancing with Myself	Billy Idol

1. "Astronaut" by Simple Plan

On occasion, we've all probably felt like the narrator in this 2011 song. He feels isolated, unheard, and as disconnected from others equally a satellite in outer space.

Trying desperately to accomplish out, he wants to rejoin humanity. Does anyone hear his indicate? Anyone?

2. "Only the Lonely" by The Motels

The adult female in this 1982 song meets back upwardly with a sometime lover, and instead of feeling sparks, she finds herself going through the motions. She's trying to fill an empty heart with temporary physical pleasance every bit only the lonely can exercise.

3. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Dark-green Day

With just a shadow every bit his visitor, the narrator in this 2004 vocal walks the empty streets, the Boulevard of Cleaved Dreams. Envision him wandering past closed-down storefronts, foreclosed homes, and abased buildings. In the silence, he hears the beating of his shallow heart and sometimes wishes that someone else would find him.

four. "Cool Kids" by Echosmith

Were yous one of the cool kids in high school who basked in the spotlight of popularity? Or were you on the other farthermost, an invisible "other" who was relegated to the sidelines?

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5. "She Don't Love You" by Eric Paslay

There's goose egg like cleaved trust to mess with someone's center and head for proficient. In this sad country song from 2014, a woman has become accustomed to goodbyes. She clings to men she shouldn't, one cowboy correct after another. However, she seems to get no satisfaction from these flings.

The song is told from the perspective of the regretful man who was once her partner until he betrayed her:

She don't beloved you, she'southward simply lone
She wasn't in one case upon a fourth dimension
I call up her in the sunlight
I remember her when she was mine, mine.

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Teresa, Catholic nun, saint and missionary to the poor — "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the nearly terrible poverty." - Mother Teresa, Catholic nun, saint and missionary to the poor

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Health Risks Associated With Loneliness


Cardiovascular disease and stroke	Decreased retentivity and learning	Greater inflammatory responses to stress
Elevated blood force per unit area and levels of cortisol (the stress hormone)	Hating behavior	Progression of Alzheimer's disease
Alcoholism and drug abuse	Poor decision-making	Low and suicide
Altered brain office	Macerated sleep quality	Higher susceptibility to infection

6. "Solitary" by Akon

There's a simple moral in this 2004 vocal: Watch out when you fool around on your one and but because y'all'll get from beingness happy to Mr. Lonely. That'due south exactly what happened to the narrator.

He tells a sad tale, merely I don't feel distressing for him. The cheater got what was coming to him.

7. "Foolish Middle" past Steve Perry

The lonely homo in this 1984 classic rock vocal badly wants to exist loved, only he's too afraid of playing the part of the fool in the relationship. He has a new love interest in his life. Nevertheless, having been burned in the past, he feels torn between hope and his fright of being a fool again.

Someone tell Mr. Anxious not to let his past define his future! He needs to await frontwards!

8. "Everybody's Got Somebody simply Me" by Hunter Hayes

Do you ever notice how everyone is blissfully in love when you're alone and unmarried? The guy in this 2011 song misses his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly the whole world seems in love, and he's on the outside looking in:

I wish the couple on the corner would simply become a room
Seems like everyone around me is on their honeymoon.
I'd love to take a pin to a heart shaped airship
Everybody's got somebody just me.

9. "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" by Patty Loveless

You don't accept to be single to be solitary. People who are trapped in dead-terminate marriages tin feel lonesome, isolated, equally well equally trapped.

This 1994 country carol is about a couple that has grown so far apart that they don't even know 1 another any longer:

You don't even know who I am
Yous left me a long fourth dimension ago
You lot don't fifty-fifty know who I am
So what do you lot care if I go?

x. "Here I Go Over again" by Whitesnake

The lonely wolf narrator of this 1982 rock song seems to have totally internalized his loneliness. He calls himself a drifter and claims he was born to walk alone. He also says, "I know what it means to walk along the lonely street of dreams." Someone get the guy a friend!

"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." = Albert Schweitzer, French-German theologian and philosopher — "Nosotros are all and so much together, merely we are all dying of loneliness." = Albert Schweitzer, French-High german theologian and philosopher

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xi. "Drive" by The Cars

Desperate events are happening to the person in this 1984 song, and the narrator is attempting to accomplish out to evidence support before it'south too late. He'due south trying to bridge the empty divide, but is it too belatedly?

12. "Nobody Knows" by Kevin Sharp

In this cute land ballad from 1996, pride keeps the narrator lonely because he cannot admit to anyone that he misses his former partner. While he pretends that he's improve off without her, privately, he spends sad days and sleepless nights wishing for her to render.

thirteen. "I Miss My Friend" by Darryl Worley

When a romance ends, so, as well, does a friendship. This 2002 land song emphasizes that friendship betwixt lovers involves shared laughter, secrets, and a whole lot of time spent together outside of the bedroom.

14. "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen

In this 1975 ability ballad, a lonely narrator who longs for love and companionship recalls his youth. Dear was once just a game to him, merely at present he yearns to share his life with someone.

15. "Best I Ever Had" by Gary Allan

Feeling rejected by the nearly wonderful girl he's e'er known, the narrator in this 2005 song feels dejected and lone. She stole his world and left him an emotional wreck, and he knows she won't exist dorsum. He needs to find a way to pick up the pieces and commencement over.

16. "Abroad From the Dominicus" past 3 Doors Down

The narrator in this 2002 stone song is in a dark place emotionally. He's struggling and asunder from other people. Worse yet, he doesn't know how to make his way dorsum:

And now again I've institute myself
Then far down, away from the sun
That shines to calorie-free the way for me.

17. "The Lonely" by Christina Perri

Loneliness has made the narrator of this 2011 song a mere crush of who she used to be. A cleaved relationship has left her the ghost of her former self. Now, at 2 a.m., she is sleepless and alone in her room, crying and dancing slowly to self-condolement.

Shake it off, sis. Ain't no ane worth making a mess of yourself similar that.

18. "Some other Lonely Night" past Adam Lambert

Each passing twenty-four hours is lonely for the narrator in this 2015 song, simply the nights are sheer hell. He misses someone he loves and is haunted by memories he cannot placidity. Unable to sleep, he drives away through the dark equally an escape.

Ideas for Combatting Loneliness

Do you lot take a useful strategy for fighting loneliness? Share information technology with united states of america in the comments section below!
Nurture & Connect With Others	Practice Self-Care	Cocky-Enhancement
Volunteer your time and talents. There are so many charities that need y'all.	Go expert quality sleep	Just show upward, even if you lot don't feel upward to it. Get to meetings, movies, restaurants, the library -- by yourself.
Adopt a forever friend from a local animate being shelter	Look for ways to fill your life with positive vibes. The negativity of loneliness tin can make yous feel contemptuous, negative, and judgmental.	Read, write, or engage in a hobby that fulfills y'all. Or have upward a new hobby. Share your creativity with others (e.g., teach, join a club, publish or sell your work).
Do an unexpected favor for a neighbour or acquaintance going through a tough time (e.thousand., someone with a ill family fellow member, a unmarried parent)	Get some exercise at the local gym or outside. The endorphins will brand you experience better.	Take time to smile and say something (all the same cursory) to people throughout your day.

19. "Demand You Now" by Lady Antebellum

In this 2010 country hit, it's 1:15 a.grand. The lonesome narrator has photos of a former partner spread out all over her flooring as she reminisces.

Our girl is half-soused after a dark of whiskey drinking, and now she's about to make a big error: the drunk dial. (Noooooo!) Someone knocks the phone out of her hand. Quick!

20. "Dancing with Myself" by Billy Idol

Whether he'southward surrounded by a large crowd or there's no i in sight, the guy in this 1982 song finds himself dancing solitary. Some critics contend that the song alludes to engaging in other solitary activities past oneself (if ya know what I mean).

Still, Billy Idol has insisted that the lyrics were inspired by the 1980s Japanese guild scene. Instead of dancing with a partner, Japanese youth of the time watched themselves pogo dancing in the mirror. Then what's the truth? You be the guess.

One in five Americans feels chronically lonely. Are you one of them? — I in five Americans feels chronically lonely. Are yous one of them?

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Fifty-fifty More Songs About Loneliness and Isolation

Know a vocal virtually loneliness and isolation that should be on our playlist? Leave united states of america a proffer in the comments section below.
Song	Artist	Twelvemonth Released
21. Lonely Male child	Andrew Gold	1976
22. Bluish Moon	Beck	2014
23. Angel	Aerosmith	1987
24. Owner Of A Alone Centre	Aye	1983
25. Lonely Day	Organization of a Downwardly	2005
26. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight	James Taylor	1972
27. Goose egg Compares 2 U	Sinead O'Connor	1990
28. Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely	Backstreet Boys	1999
29. Are Y'all Lonesome Tonight?	Elvis Presley	1962
xxx. Black Orchid	Blue October	1998
31. Lonely People	America	1974
32. Carosel	Blink 182	1994
33. Given Up	Linkin Park	2007
34. Heartbreak Hotel	Elvis Presley	1956
35. Her Town Too	James Taylor & J.D. Souther	1981
36. Drowning Shadows	Sam Smith	2014
37. Vicious Summertime	Bananarama	1984
38. Your New Twin Sized Bed	Death Cab for Cutie	2008
39. Who Tin It Exist At present?	Men at Work	1981
40. Happy Lilliputian Pill	Troye Sivan	2014
41. Whatsoever Love	Luther Vandross	1988
42. Earlier Information technology'southward Over	Sixx: A.M.	2014
43. Lonely Girl	Charles Kelley	2016
44. I'm And so Lonesome I Could Cry	Hank Williams	1949
45. Heartbreaker	Noah Gundersen	2014
46. Rainy Dark In Georgia	Beck Benton	1970
47. One	Harry Nilsson	1968
48. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)	Whitney Houston	1987
49. She's Out of My Life	Michael Jackson	1979
50. Ask the Lonely	Journey	1983
51. Act Naturally	Cadet Owens	1963
52. All Solitary On Christmas	Darlene Love	1992
53. Out of Touch	Hall & Oates	1984
54. I Get Solitary Too	Drake	2010
55. Hibernate In Your Vanquish	Supertramp	1974
56. Are 'Friends' Electric?	Gary Numan	1979
57. Biggest Mistake	The Rolling Stones	2006
58. Bill Murray	Phantogram	2014
59. Another Rainy Night (Without You)	Queensrÿche	1990
sixty. Alone Again	Dokken	1984
61. How Do You Get That Lonely	Blaine Larsen	2005
62. Also Cold at Home	Mark Chesnutt	1990
63. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Retentivity Will)	George Jones	1981
64. Lonelier Than This	Steve Earle	2000
65. Merely the Solitary	Roy Orbison	1961
66. Eleanor Rigby	The Beatles	1966
67. When I Phone call Your Name	Vince Gill	1989
68. Exit Me Lone (I'm Lone)	P!nk	2006
69. Hey There Lonely Girl	Eddie Holman	1969
70. Left Outside Alone	Anastacia	2004
71. Alone Male child	The Black Keys	2011
72. So Far Away	Carole Male monarch	1971
73. So Tired of Existence Alone	Al Light-green	1971
74. All the Adept Ones Are Gone	Pam Tillis	1997
75. Between An Old Memory and Me	Travis Tritt	1994
76. Alone Again (Naturally)	Gilbert O'Sullivan	1971
77. Kiss The Rain	Billie Myers	1997
78. Some Guys Have All the Luck	Rod Stewart	1984
79. Lone Street	Emmylou Harris	1989
fourscore. Sometimes I Cry	Chris Stapleton	2015
81. Never Knew Alone	Vince Gill	1989
82. Hope You Get Lonely Tonight	Cole Swindell	2014
83. Nobody Wants to Be Alone	Ricky Martin	2000
84. Lonely	Center	1984
85. Another Saturday Nighttime	Sam Cooke	1963
86. Mad Earth	Tears for Fears	1982
87. The Fright of Existence Lonely	Reba McEntire	1996
88. The Heart Is a Alone Hunter	Reba McEntire	1988
89. Goodbye to Love	The Carpenters	1972
90. Black Roses Ruby-red	Alana Grace	2009
91. Lonely Tonight	Blake Shelton (featuring Ashley Monroe)	2014
92. Is There Life Out There	Reba McEntire	1992
93. Broken	thebandlovely	2017
94. You lot Don't Know	Milow	2006
95. Hello in There	John Prine	1971
96. Invisible	Hunter Hayes	2014
97. Mr. Lonely	Bobby Vinton	1964
98. The Messenger	Linkin Park	2010
99. All Dressed Upwards (With Nowhere to Go)	Reba McEntire	1999
100. Lonely Dance	Set It Off	2018
101. Lost Boy	Ruth B.	2015
102. Unsteady	X Ambassadors	2015
103. All Alone	Billie Eilish and Khalid	2017
104. The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy	Chris Stapleton	2019
105. Solitary Trip the light fantastic toe	Fix Information technology Off	2019
106. I Get Solitary	Drake	2019
107. My Heart Is a Bar	Old Rule	2019
108. Lonely	Joel Corry	2020
109. Modern Loneliness	Lauv	2020
110. You Don't Know	Katelyn Tarver	2017
111. Alone at the Pinnacle	Jamey Johnson	2010
112. Girls Similar Us	Zoe Wees	2021

"Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed." - Thomas Harris, American writer — "Nothing makes u.s. more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed." - Thomas Harris, American writer

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Questions & Answers

Question: Is loneliness a skilful matter or a bad thing?

Respond: In the table of the playlist, "Songs About Loneliness and Feelings of Isolation," I highlight 12 central risks associated with loneliness, including simply not limited to depression and suicide, Alzheimer's progression, and alcoholism and drug employ. No one could fence that these are skillful things. Humans are congenital for social connection.

I guess you could conversely argue that there is a silver lining to feeling lone if it spurs you lot to exist creative, detect deeper meaning in life, develop one'due south spiritual side, improve concentration, or make of import positive changes. You lot have to weigh these against the risks, all the same, which are substantial.

Question: How do you lot mend a cleaved heart, or better yet, a broken heed?

Respond: A broken middle tin can indeed hurt just equally physical pain hurts. Many of usa accept been hurt securely in this fashion.

You may be securely disappointed because yous aren't where y'all want to be in life now with the one you loved, merely that doesn't hateful there is no promise for tomorrow. You will dear again if you allow yourself to exercise and so. You may think that at that place'south something wrong with you because someone has broken your heart and possibly your trust. There's not.

Rather than ruminating on what you DON'T have, what y'all are Non, and what DIDN'T happen for you, instead focus on what yous CAN DO to make today more fulfilling. First, wipe all of the brilliant reminders of your quondam lover out of your life. They are gone at present. If you tin't let go of these items by having a "burn down ceremony," and so pack upward their old photos, former gifts, letters, etc. up in a box. Seal the box with duct tape, and mark information technology with the appointment and "Practise not open up." Then store the box in the attic or somewhere less attainable. Take their photos off your telephone and resist any urge to check out your erstwhile lover's social media accounts. Brand the break so you can mentally motion on in a positive direction.

Y'all also must care for yourself well past taking care of your body and mind. Sign upwardly for classes at the YMCA or your local gym. Exercise will provide a source of potential friendship and endorphins, the body's natural "feel proficient" drugs. Eat well. Stop telling yourself negative messages. Make it a practice every 24-hour interval to give someone—anyone—a compliment. This will assistance you mentally compliment yourself, too, on things gone correct. Change those letters you tell yourself. You lot need to be your biggest fan.

Don't rush back into dating. Instead, concentrate on grieving and accepting your lost relationship and making yourself a happy person. Create a bucket list and start checking off items. Involve friends or practise information technology alone. Just beginning, only talk with people along the way equally you lot cheque your list off. Our lives are enhanced by the connections we make with others.

Consider volunteering some time to a charity or charities in your area. Information technology can be a erstwhile activity or an ongoing commitment of your time, merely I find that getting out and meeting new and different kinds of people who demand and capeesh my aid keeps me positive. Get off social media and rub elbows with real people. I find that volunteermatch.org has a diverse range of constantly updated listings. Sometimes you never know what will interest you until you see it listed!

If you believe y'all are experiencing low, delight seek counseling. Depression is a mutual, treatable mental health condition, and y'all don't accept to endure. Talk to your family doctor to get a referral for a psychologist, psychiatrist, or mental health counselor. At that place'south no shame in caring for yourself in this way.

I wish the best for you as you seek to regain your footing. Y'all volition dearest again.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on August thirty, 2020:

No One - Yes, they recorded the original, and Gary Allan did the encompass I characteristic here. Thanks.

No 1 on August 29, 2020:

Best I ever had is by Vertical Horizon, from 1999.

FlourishAnyway (author) from Us on Apr 29, 2020:

Peggy - Thanks for stopping past.

Peggy Wood from Houston, Texas on April 29, 2020:

It is easy to see what an first-class therapist you are with your tips on how to combat loneliness and your comments to some of the people on this site. It is not too surprising that and then many songs have addressed this topic.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on March 23, 2020:

Mary - Cheers for the song recommendation which I take added. Just more importantly, delight realize that many of u.s.a. have gone through times (particularly in our teens) when a lot of areas in life just seemed to be going wrong all at in one case -- social life, family life, academics, financial, self-concept, wellness, etc. Focus on what you lot can control right now, one thing at a time.

Even though information technology seems similar something you lot might non normally exercise, attempt reaching out to a trusted teacher via email or schoolhouse messaging so that y'all tin can talk to them about the difficulty you're having in their class. Make a point of developing a better relationship with this one teacher. Ask for their help or advice, express appreciation and kindness to them, and permit them know yous are trying. Especially if this works, consider expanding your efforts to other teachers. Remember that teachers are above all people and they do want you to succeed then endeavour to connect with them every bit such. As far as getting in fights and not having friends, that volition take more than sustained, longer term focus on the types of people yous surroundings yourself with, watching what you say, when you say it, and how, and knowing when to selection your battles. Since many of us are on a Coronavirus lockdown, look upwardly strategies for calming yourself in conflict so you can acquire how to not allow sure people push button your buttons and so much. And above all, treat yourself kindly.

Mary on March 23, 2020:

I have no real friends and I am struggling with my school work and I go on getting in fights and my teachers are non a big fan of me. Oh and a really good vocal is "You don't know" past Katelyn Tarver.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s.a. on February 27, 2020:

Keesha - I've added the suggested songs. More than chiefly, I desire to encourage yous to keep trying to reach out to others. There are many people who feel lone and isolated, even those who are supposedly popular. Join clubs and groups that interest yous, pursue hobbies sometime and new, don't stop enriching yourself. Give to others in a volunteer capacity. You lot will notice that this above all else volition create bonds of friendship and positive emotion. You'll aggrandize your social circle beyond your school and your grade.

Keesha on February 26, 2020:

I'm kinda the invisible kid in my school and I cant help but feel lonely all the time because I don't take very many friends. i want to feel accustomed but i cant e'er accomplish out and talk to anybody and nobody ever reaches out to talk to me, and information technology gets to me sometimes... anyways you should add Lost Boy by Ruth B to your listing. Also Unsteady past X Ambassadors. Another good song is Lovely by Billie Eilish and Khalid

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on November 07, 2019:

Caitlyn - Thank you for the song suggestions.

Caitlyn on November 05, 2019:

1) Solitary Dance past Gear up It Off

2) Waving Through a Window from Dearest Evan Hansen

Both of these songs are about being/feeling alone, even if effectually others. I've plant they help me in times when I'thou feeling extremely isolated from everyone...

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 29, 2019:

Shannon - Oh, is that always a sad one! Definitely adding it. Thanks for recommending information technology.

Shannon Henry from Texas on October 27, 2019:

You've stumped me this fourth dimension. I can't think of a song right now that y'all oasis't already included. Listening to sad sings when I am that deplorable it lonely is non a skillful idea for me. Especially since even when I am not sad a pitiful sing can make me cry....... Oh, speaking of one that always makes me cry, I merely thought of one for your list....Reba McEntire's "All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go." Did I miss information technology? Gets me every unmarried time. Talk about intense loneliness

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 27, 2019:

Brayden - I'yard concerned that your loneliness is interfering with your power to live a productive life. You don't accept to feel like this. Please consider getting counseling and working through your losses of friendships, low, compulsive video game playing, etc. You may very well be experiencing depression, a biochemically-based illness that is easily treatable. Yous owe it to yourself to seek professional person help, but as you would seek help if you suspected a broken leg.

If you lot are in crisis and feel like you may harm yourself, call 911 for firsthand life-saving assistance. Y'all may also contact one of the following resource for talk or text support:

1) National Hopeline Network 1.800.SUICIDE (1.800.784.2433)

If you lot or someone you know are depressed and considering suicide, call the National Hopeline Network at ane.800.SUICIDE (i.800.784.2433). Your telephone call is free and confidential. Or conversation live with a crunch volunteer at http://hopeline.com/.

ii) National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1.800.273.TALK (8255)

Phone call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) to talk with a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis eye in your area. Bachelor 24 hours a 24-hour interval, seven days a week.

Note that the National Suicide Prevention website lists additional, special hotline numbers for Castilian speakers, people with hearing impairments and veterans in crisis, and people facing distress related to natural disasters: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-some...

three) Crisis Text Line Number 741741

If y'all're in crisis and prefer to text rather than call, then here'south a confidential crisis text line staffed nationally by trained counselors in suicide prevention. Text "Habitation" to 741741 from anywhere in the United States.

Brayden. on October 27, 2019:

i wish i never found this.

since all ive done is heed to some of the songs and information technology just makes me cry. ive lost all my friends latley i dont know how to recover my friendships or myself.

6months ago all i did was play games with my friends on the ps4 three all mean solar day everyday, 3 months afterwards i lost him as a friend and all i do is netflix if im not hanging out with my other friend. now ive lost her all i do is slumber, netflix and go to work.

i simply dont know what to do anymore im twenty and all my life ive never been this sad and alone

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on June xviii, 2019:

Ryan - Great proposition. Cheers.

Ryan on June xviii, 2019:

Linkin Park - The Messenger

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on Dec xviii, 2018:

Author Catholic Darren - Cheers for the song recommendation and for stopping by!

Author Cosmic Darren on December 17, 2018:

Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from United states of america on November 10, 2018:

Rob - Cheers for your comments. I added "How-do-you-do in There." That's a song that will really brand you lot recall about the old people in your life. Gosh. Cheers again.

rob on November 09, 2018:

John Prine'south 'hello in there' could be on your listing ...

FlourishAnyway (writer) from Usa on October 31, 2018:

Akshay - Thank you for your encouraging comment. I have many playlists. Click on my profile to take a look at all of the others there are bachelor.

Akshay Kumar on October 30, 2018:

@flourishaway

Thanks for ur Mail service..Those songs are really meaningful and ur description for each songs was really helpful to search in youtube.only can u do that for some more than songs..please..

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on October 11, 2018:

Juuso Rantala - Thank you for the vocal suggestion. I added it as #94. Take a slap-up mean solar day!

Juuso Rantala on October 11, 2018:

Milow - You don't know

FlourishAnyway (author) from The states on June 13, 2018:

Sheena India - I'thou sorry to hear about the conditions that y'all discover yourself in. I hope you lot can reach out to someone you trust (a relative, a neighbor) and beginning to build an alliance that way. You lot are in my thoughts.

Sheena India on June 13, 2018:

I'yard Trapped in home I dont Have friends I'm lonely in life no job No partner Simply alone . I'm in low . I'grand not alouded to talk anyone . Thanks overnice songs.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on December 17, 2017:

Paul - I am distressing for your loss. Thank you for sharing your sister'due south story and yours. Some people are lonely wolves in life for whatever reason and others are ostracized, marginalized by family unit members, neighbors, and others for their habits or life choices, ideas, or behaviors. It's lamentable that family cannot overcome some differences to reaffirm their mutual bail. Lonely People" past America is on the listing as #31. I wish you peace and happiness equally you lot wait for your sense of community effectually you. At that place are so many other lone people waiting to make connections with others. Reach out to those effectually yous. Best wishes.

Paul on December 17, 2017:

Hey,

My oldest sister died a few days ago from emphysema. 50 of years of smoking. She was a difficult person, and many of my 9 other siblings more or less ignored her. I kept contact with her through the years, and early I stood on the sidelines of our family with her, and instead of caring for the other members of my family unit, I criticized them, specially our our mom. I broke away from that several decades ago, and it became more difficult to relate to her. I wonder about people who push other people away, or find information technology difficult to reach out and enquire for help.

Okay, my vocal suggestion is "This is for all the lonely people," past America. Listened to it a lot when I was young, and I love the hopeful message.

"Bowling Alone" is a corking book nearly our social textile unraveling. I think my first view of loneliness came from the many retirement I sang at in High School. Sister Susan, our director, implored us to hug and hold hands every bit much as we could with the residents during these performances. She said many of these people experience lone, and unattractive.

Thank you for setting upwardly the site!

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on Nov 18, 2017:

Stephen - Thanks for the suggestion. I've added it to the following playlist about trying to get over an ex: https://hubpages.com/playlists/Getting-Over-You-Pl...

Stephen on November 18, 2017:

Sober Saturday Night by Chris Young.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on August 20, 2017:

Cmatelin - I promise you and Chet get the togetherness you lot're seeking.

FlourishAnyway (author) from Us on July 28, 2017:

Mona - Thanks for the vocal suggestion and kind compliment. I will add the song equally #86!

Mona Sabalones Gonzalez from Philippines on July 27, 2017:

This was a lovely article, non just for the list of songs, simply for the charts with healthy communication well-nigh loneliness, and the map. I was waiting for the song, "Mad Globe", but that's okay, this list is fantastic;).

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on July ten, 2017:

Sultan R. Noor - If you accept a blackness cat, then you're not truly alone, are yous?

Sultan R. Noor on July 09, 2017:

Being solitary isn't good considering yous nobody to luv you, nobody to hig, nobody to talk to your only in a big night room looking for a black true cat

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on March 27, 2017:

Shyron - Thank you for your suggestion! You're a wealth of songs virtually so many topics.

Shyron East Shenko from Texas on March 27, 2017:

I was just watching the Highwaymen on public television and they sang Johnny Cash's 1972 "Lord's day Morning Coming Down"

(poetry) There is nil brusque of dying

that is half as lonesome equally the sound

of a sleeping city sidewalk and

Sunday Morn Coming Downwardly

This a great song for this one.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on March 26, 2017:

Shyron - Thank yous for all of your suggestions! You're a treasure!

Shyron E Shenko from Texas on March 25, 2017:

I but remembered a couple more songs should on this play list.

One is Loretta Lynn'southward

"When Lonely Hits Your Heart"

Here I am a doing things I said I'd never do

But that's before my babe said we're through

It was on that tragic day the hurtin' got its start

That's how information technology is when alone hits your heart

And Connie Smith's -- "Bluish Petty Girl"

The more dear he gave me the more than love I asked him to give and not for i moment did my foolish middle think of him then one day he turned and slowly walked out of my world. Now my globe is blue and I'm simply a blue fiddling girl.

Blessings

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on Jan fifteen, 2017:

Shyron - I hadn't heard this song, and you're right about Patsy Cline'due south version existence haunting. Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful calendar week.

Shyron E Shenko from Texas on Jan xv, 2017:

I love all these songs, and volition listen to them over and over over again, but I do non encounter my favorite that use to make me weep, information technology was on Patsy Cline's concluding album (Sentimentally Yours) released in 1962.

"Alone Street" was a top x pop hit for Andy Williams in 1959.

Few others came closer than this haunting version by Patsy Cline...

https://world wide web.youtube.com/sentinel?5=ekZgGNqSSUQ

Cheers for this, Blessings and hugs dearest friend.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on Oct 24, 2016:

teaches12345 - Yep, there are a lot of alone people. Just smiling or saying hullo can probably help someone.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on Oct 24, 2016:

Patricia - I'1000 glad you savour country as well as other genres. Then many people aren't open to information technology. I love all kinds of music, from opera and classical to rock and country and bluegrass and even zydeco. I concord with yous that the country tunes are accurate. They are also often clever, funny and tell stories. Have a wonderful calendar week.

pstraubie48 on October 24, 2016:

She dont love you is a fav of mine despite....information technology rings true....

Well done, great collection...for a long time I was not a state music fan only I notice then many of the songs have so much autheniticity....so I am hooked.

Angels are on the way to you ps

teaches12345 on Oct 22, 2016:

I listened to a few of the videos, Carmen'southward vocalisation is unique and fabricated the music impressionable. So many lonely people out at that place and I promise the music helps them sooth their soul.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s. on Oct 19, 2016:

Devika - Thank y'all for reviewing the playlist and taking the time to go out a comment. I hope you are doing well.

DDE on October 19, 2016:

Lonely times are sad times and one can feel most unhappy in such times. I similar your list.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on Oct 17, 2016:

Martie - Thank you for stopping by and sharing. I heed to alone songs only endeavor non to internalize them. Have a joyful week.

Martie Coetser from South Africa on October 17, 2016:

Beautiful music touching one's heart and pulling 1's tears from where one hides them.

In that location was a fourth dimension in my life I used to listen to these songs, assuasive them to confirm my loneliness and unhappiness and push me fifty-fifty deeper into it. Since I've made a decision to be happy I no longer listen to sad music.

But I know there may come a fourth dimension when I will experience lonely over again. Then I will indulge in information technology for well-nigh one-half an hour, listening to this beautiful songs.

Cheers, Flourish :)

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October xvi, 2016:

Suhail and my domestic dog - I love the big pilus bands of the 80s -- probably even more now than I did and so! Glad you lot enjoyed the list. Have a great week. I know with K2 you could never exist lonely.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on October 16, 2016:

MsDora - Thanks for stopping by. Glad y'all enjoyed this. Accept a lovely calendar week.

Dora Weithers from The Caribbean on October sixteen, 2016:

Capeesh all the ingredients you put in these great lists--enquiry findings, dates, maps. These are treasures.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 16, 2016:

Bill - Cheers for taking a wait. Social support is an incredibly important psychological variable that has protective furnishings for health and well-being. Information technology's also something we can each impact in ourselves and one another. Give thanks yous for reading and commenting. Accept a terrific week!

FlourishAnyway (writer) from Us on Oct xvi, 2016:

Linda - And so many people are solitary and we can each practise something most it with simple gestures. Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment. Have a wonderful week.

Suhail Zubaid aka Clark Kent from Mississauga, ON on October 15, 2016:

FlourishAnyway,

You lot amaze me by your knowledge.

The only one that comes from the musicians of my genre is "Here I Go Again" past Whitesnake. The band'south blues based hard rock and David Coverdale's wailing made this song very special. When I am hiking with my dog, I call up of this song a lot. I am certain Coverdale must have sung many other songs in the same vein for Deep Purple.

Bon Jovi's 'Steel horse I ride' may just qualify, and then may Scorpions 'When the smoke is going down'.

The other song that I listened to a lot was "Boulevard of Cleaved Dreams" by Light-green Day.

Thank you for compiling this list.

Linda Crampton from British Columbia, Canada on Oct 15, 2016:

This is some other interesting playlist commodity, Flourish. Information technology's educational for me, besides, since I don't mind to stone or country songs very often. I'm glad that you chose the theme of loneliness. It'due south an important topic in today's world.

Bill De Giulio from Massachusetts on Oct fifteen, 2016:

Another slap-up list Flourish. Very interesting statistic about increased mortality due to loneliness and isolation. We are social creatures and demand interaction with others. I can certainty see how being alone could lead to depression and other issues. Keen job.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s. on Oct 15, 2016:

Kyriaki - Glad you're non lonely and that yous enjoyed the songs regardless. Accept a wonderful weekend filled with joy!

Kyriaki Chatzi on Oct 15, 2016:

Despite not feeling lone at the moment, I enjoyed listening to most of this list'southward songs. Flourish, that was a peachy Hub!! Looking frontwards to your next prepare of songs!

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on Oct xiv, 2016:

Gypsy Rose Lee - (I love your name!) Don't go listening to and then many that you brand yourself distressing! Thank yous for stopping by! Have a good weekend.

Gypsy Rose Lee from Daytona Beach, Florida on October 14, 2016:

A job well done. All that lonesomeness got me wanting to sing another great shall we say lonely song - I'yard So Lonesome I Could Cry. This is one of my all time favorites. I volition give a listen to the ones I don't know from your list. When I was much younger All by Myself could make me weep in a infinitesimal. Thanks for sharing.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 13, 2016:

Thanks, Larry. Have a great weekend!

Larry Rankin from Oklahoma on October thirteen, 2016:

Another wonderful list.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 13, 2016:

Heidi - Thanks for the suggestion; I've added ol' Gilbert every bit #76. I hope he made a telephone call or something, the chipper quondam fella. Hope you are doing great.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on October 13, 2016:

Linda - The ability of touch can transform and heal. Give thanks you for sharing that asset of wisdom with united states of america!

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on October 13, 2016:

Bill - Cheers for the great improver. Travis Tritt is i of my favorites. I once went to a concert of his alone when I was living in a new community and did not know many people. Those I did know weren't country music fans. I nonetheless did enjoy the concert. Hope yous are doing well.

Linda Lum from Washington Country, Us on October 13, 2016:

Flourish - What a groovy list. Did you lot know that babies in the NICU practice amend if they are touched? That man connexion is vital to all of us. Cheers.

Heidi Thorne from Chicago Area on October 13, 2016:

Even though I have to say that I don't actually always feel lonely, I dearest a bunch of the songs on this listing! I'd add Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Lonely Again Naturally" which has been covered by a slew of artists. Always a care for going through your playlists! Accept a peachy twenty-four hours!

Bill Holland from Olympia, WA on October 13, 2016:

"Demand You NOw" was the offset I thought of, and then in that location was i by Travis Twitt...."Old Memory".....neat listing for me to listen to this morning. Thanks, Flourish!

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on October 13, 2016:

Vellur - Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are doing well.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on October 13, 2016:

Faith Reaper - I promise that knowing the risks will encourage everyone to reach out and connect a little more with people they know and those they don't. It doesn't take corking attempt -- just a grin and a kind word tin can do wonders sometimes. Thank you for sharing. Take a wonderful day!

Nithya Venkat from Dubai on October 13, 2016:

A corking selection of songs to assistance tide through solitary, sad times.

Faith Reaper from southern USA on October 12, 2016:

Wow, Flourish, I published a hub on this very subject field several years ago just without the great playlist! Social isolation is indeed a killer, merely as you've outlined here. Lonliness is so hard and one can be lonely fifty-fifty in a crowded room ...if that makes sense.

I had forgotten about a lot of these songs. There are and so many good ones. The one that hit me tonight is "I miss My Friend", non considering of any romance of course, simply only missing the friendship. Friendship is a special kind of love. I volition dedicate information technology to my friend : )

Will share to become the important message out about the serious health risks associated with loneliness or isolation.

Blessings always

You Dont Know What Its Like to Be Alone

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