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If I have to be alone |
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Then I should make my mind serene |
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After all you're born alone, you die alone |
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You might as well spend every moment in between alone |
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But if I have to be alone |
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Then it will be on my own terms |
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I can never talk about it, ever show it |
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Even though the world is watching while |
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I squirm alone |
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And your bleeding heart friends say, "Isn't it sad?" |
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Then they go make love |
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While you go insane. |
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Insane! It drives you mad! |
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Mad! My mind, |
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I love my mind |
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And if no one can feel the same |
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I'm a computer with a name |
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And I've got no one else to blame |
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If I have to be alone |
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And if nobody understands |
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That special creature that is me |
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And if they fail to see the me |
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I see Then no one else knows truly what it is |
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To be alone |
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Maybe once in a lifetime you lose your will |
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Then you can let down your guard |
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But they cower in fear. |
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In fear. It makes you ill! |
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Ill! My heart, my burning heart |
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And if no one will quench the flame |
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I'm not obliged to do the same |
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And then they'll have to share the blame |
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Because I have to be alone |
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Because I have to be alone |
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But I don't want to be alone |
![If I Have To Be Alone [Live at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, CA, July 1990]](/storage/24/231695.jpg "If I Have To Be Alone [Live at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, CA, July 1990]")