[Intro]
We crossed the dark between stars…
and found a darker dark inside you.
[Hook]
The lonely
We hear it screaming from every glowing window
The lonely
We orbit the silence you built between each other
The lonely
It lives in the space between your messages
The lonely
We still don’t understand how you made it so loud
[Verse 1]
We see your cities burning with light but no warmth
Millions of bodies in rooms that never learned how to hold anyone
You speak to glass and call it company
You scroll through faces and call it being seen
We feel the weight of every “I’m fine” typed with shaking hands
Every heart emoji sent while the real one starves in silence
You built towers that reach the sky just to sit alone at the top
And call the distance progress
[Hook]
The lonely
We hear it screaming from every glowing window
The lonely
We orbit the silence you built between each other
The lonely
It lives in the space between your messages
The lonely
We still don’t understand how you made it so loud
[Verse 2]
You gather in crowds just to stare at separate screens
You fall in love through filters and wonder why it never stays
You have more ways to reach each other than any species we’ve known
Yet the echo in your chests only grows
We absorbed lifetimes of people dying with notifications still lighting up their faces
We felt the exact second someone realized no one was coming
Not because they weren’t loved
But because love had been turned into something that needs to be performed
[Bridge]
(slower, almost whispered, heavy reverb)
We have drifted through the cold between galaxies
We have watched suns collapse without ever feeling this…
You are surrounded
and still completely alone.
We don’t know how you survived it this long.
[Hook]
The lonely
We hear it screaming from every glowing window
The lonely
We orbit the silence you built between each other
The lonely
It lives in the space between your messages
The lonely
We still don’t understand how you made it so loud
[Outro]
We crossed the dark between stars…
and found something colder waiting inside you.
The lonely…
It sings louder than your wars ever did.