Desperation

[Bry89]

My life is nothing but emptiness
And the blackness
I wish for the candlelight
Just to make things bright

When I want a friend
To keep my blood flowing
Until the end
I am denied every time
No given reasons why

My life is lost in the darkness
Consumed by the madness
That I inflict on myself
Forever I'm in this hell

When I want just somebody
To caress my emotions
And to kill this melancholy
But I'm denied, one after the other
An intended way to make me suffer

I'm sick of being left alone
Longer than it is necessary
Too busy with your own little life
Never to be there for me

I hate being left alone
It hurts me, and it's cutting me deep
Solitude seems the only way to live now
Desperation is all that I can feel

My hollow life in repetition
Like a slow movie without action
My entire life in tragedy
Killing myself so slowly

When I want the love from you
To set my heart free
And know it's true
You don't hear me, never at all
Self-esteem now takes the fall

[D.F.Russell]

Yeah, everyone has been there.

Many people have covered this, from Robert Plant & Alison Krauss to Billy Ray Cyrus... I wish I'd written it.

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Killin' the Blues by Roly Salley (Chris Issac's base player)

Leaves were falling, down like embers
In colors red and gold, they set us on fire
Burning just like a moonbeam in our eyes
Somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues.
Now I'm guilty of something, I hope you never do
Because there is nothing, sadder than losing yourself in love
Somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues.
...
For then you've asked me, just to leave you
To run out on my own and get what I need to
You want me to find what I've already had
Somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues.
Yeah well somebody said they saw me, I was swinging the world by the tail

Bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues.
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I'd say this is the best cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZSGs-7jvHw

[Bry89]

Yeah, everyone has been there.

Many people have covered this

Only that my entry is based on feeling lonely, and having been unlucky with arranging meet-ups with any of my friends because they have other things to do (especially when I have nothing at the moment).