So Lonely

There are all different kinds of loneliness. There's the really empty kind, the kind where you're not only alone, but you can't feel your own life force, and thus you can't see any evidence you'll ever feel anything but lonely. That's the kind that the protagonist in Sofia Coppola's new movie Somewhere is dealing with. You wouldn't think that would be easy to watch, and it isn't easy, really, but it is enjoyable in a surprising sort of way.

Of all the songs in the soundtrack, this one stuck out for me, perhaps because I too am experiencing my own sort of loneliness at the moment. It definitely isn't characterized by emptiness -- more like by the absence of the full extent of the wholeness that I've found when I'm with my man. After a while, it just starts to hurt:

Now no-one's knocked upon my door

For a thousand years, or more

All made up and nowhere to go

Welcome to this one man show

Just take a seat, they're always free

No surprise, no mystery

In this theatre that I call my soul

I always play the starring role, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely

So lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

So lonely, so lonely, so lonely

But alas, this loneliness is temporary. I'll probably always play the starring role in this theatre that I call my soul, but I sure will be psyched when my leading man appears in more scenes...