Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
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From the album notes:
McTurk in the forest, alone, friendless and pining over the faithless Rowena, finds himself directionless and overcome with melancholy and anger.
COMPOSER’S NOTE: A similar orchestration of this song appears on ‘Second Wind’
[McTurk]
If I have to be alone
Then I should make my mind serene
After all you're born alone, you die alone
You might as well spend every moment in between alone
But if I have to be alone
Then it will be on my own terms
I can never talk about it, ever show it
Even though the world is watching while I squirm alone
And your bleeding heart friends say, "Isn't it sad?"
Then they go make love while you go insane, insane
It drives you mad, mad
My mind, I love my mind
And if no one can feel the same
I'm a computer with a name
And I've got no one else to blame
If I have to be alone
And if nobody understands
The special creature that is me
And if they fail to see the me I see
Then no one else knows truly what it means
To be alone
Maybe once in a lifetime you lose your will
Then you can let down your guard
But they cower in fear. in fear
It makes you ill, ill
My heart, my burning heart
And if no one will quench the flame
I'm not obliged to do the same
And then they'd have to share the blame
Because I have to be alone
Because I have to be alone
But I don't want to be alone
If I Have to Be Alone (Demo) was written by Todd Rundgren.
If I Have to Be Alone (Demo) was produced by Todd Rundgren.
Todd Rundgren released If I Have to Be Alone (Demo) on Tue Nov 11 1997.