The Lonely - King Midas Sound

I’d rather book a table in a restaurant

Than eat another meal alone

I can feel The Lonely in my face

When you get to this age

With no significant other

People treat you like a bad rash

I have no plus one to come to your dinner party

I can see The Lonely in my face

I didn’t plan it

Nothing worked out

I stopped believing it would

I can see The Lonely in my face

But when you have all your waking hours

With only your thoughts

It gets to you

And you become desperate

And people feel that desperation

And they want distance

Distance from your desperation

And you

I can see The Lonely in my face

Day after day

You fight the stillness

The quiet

Aware of every second

I guess too much time on your own makes the eyes seem hollow

Makes frown-lines in your forehead

Makes your flesh sad

I can even see The Lonely in my face

It looks a bit like anger

But I’m not angry

Just empty