When that song came out in 1972 I just started sixth grade at a open classroom school in St. Charles, MO which was new concept back then and the only school of it's kind in the area. Instead of separate classrooms all students of a certain grade level were in one room. On Fridays we had "Discovery Friday" which we participated in various activities among those listening to the popular songs of the time. I listened to this song alongside a girl whom was already a close friend of mine and whenever this song plays, it reminds me of her. I had to move out of state after sixth grade and lost contact with her until two years ago when I found her on Facebook and the friendship picked up where it left off so long ago. The friendship started to blossom into love back then when it was interrupted and it has after two years of reconnection began to blossom into love once more. Fortunately I had divorced earlier and she never married. Two weeks ago she visited me up here near St. Louis and we finally kissed she said "I love you" to me and I was overcome with emotion. 42 years I waited for that special moment and it proves that true unconditional love never dies and that patience is to be treasured and good things come to those who wait.
That is such a cool story. Best of luck to you both. I can somewhat relate. Mine happened in 4th grade. One of the last days of school this girl told me she liked me. I was to shy to respond. My family moved that summer, and I never saw her again. I often wonder what would have happened if would have told her I like her too or if we hadn't moved. I tried looking her up on facebook without success.
Thank you so very much Susan! Her name is Judy and we are indeed meant for each other. It is very uncanny that we are so much alike in our ways and in what we enjoy. Two years later after I wrote that post we are still write to each other once or twice a week although our lives are very busy. I love Judy with all my heart and I always will.
That was awesome Steven...I believe in once relationship being husband and wife they should follow the "give & take" principle, understanding that's the first thing, so that the relationship will be stable, if both are hot-headed no good will come out of it....love should always be felt so that love will also be the outcome..
O'Sullivan is a brilliant song writer who understands how to convey emotions through beautiful melodies. The lyrics are melancholy, but the music is uplifting. The contrast makes this such a haunting, memorable song....very nostalgic for someone who was a young child when this song was popular.
+Naor Hi :) I love your post. I can assure you of one thing, you will miss your parents when they're gone. Not to sound cold-hearted, but that's simply a fact of life. However, a few things they'd like in the here and now:A phone call, in the middle of the day, for no other reason than to say "How are you?" (be prepared though, cause we may actually tell you how we are!) A card. NOT an ecard, a real, I have to use an actual stamp and snail-mail this card; especially for no reason! If you have kids, pix of them, grandkids are the greatest thing since peanut butter! And if you don't have kids, pix from your everyday life~they may seem mundane to you, but not to your folks, we love knowing our children are happy :) Anyway, sorry that I horned in on your post. Just title this "I Wish I Woulda" Peace!
+Debbie Aldred Really liked your comment. Unfortunately I'm 26 and I don't have kids yet [And i wish I have some because I know it will make my parents very happy]. I guess I'll have to wait... :)
I was 13 when this song was famous, I loved it back then, specially the music. Now at 54, is when I really understand how deep the lyrics are. It could be because as we grow older, we all have gone through the same sour moments the author describes in this song, Exactly how I feel tonight..And in my time of need, I truly am indeed.. Alone again, naturally...
Don't be sad man! Life has so much more in it than loneliness! One day you'll find someone you find you cannot live without, then you'll see how fantastic life is! I don't think Sullivan is trying to point out how terrible life is when your lonely but that after all the bad things in life he carries on writing songs to all the lonely hearts out there! I'll be your friend if you need one. :)
In the part where he sings "At 65 years old my mother god rest her soul". That part really speaks to me because at 81 years old my mother may she rest in peace passed away the same way when my father passed away. I cried and cried all day for the both of them.
A few days ago my beloved father died and when I'm alone, in the car, or at home, I can not stop crying. And I listen to this song as often as possible, but only when I'm alone.
Well im 25 yrs old . . Ice Age 3 brought me here . . it was the 1st time ive heard this song and i kinda love the song , the lyrics and the way singer sang this song . . good song indeed !
this song brings back sad and happy memories, this goes out to my childhood best friend martin sullivan, who died in 72 . R.I.P. my brother miss ya!! this is for u!!
This song take me on 1972 when I was only 6 years old. My mother was with me there buying my books to my primary school. I never forgot that time and memories.
Gilbert O'Sullivan hath sung my soul. his original version has been covered more than once, but his still stands as the one that touches me in my loneliest times, and reminds me that just maybe I'm not the only one this lonely... And so, maybe not truly alone... Thanks for posting this.
Same here, I was 13 when this song was famous, but now at 54 is when I really understand how deep the lyrics are. It could be because as we grow older, we all have gone through the same sour moments the author describes in this song, Exactly how I feel tonight..Alone again, naturally..
Thanks for posting the music video. It is beautiful but not necessarily sad, just true. The song speaks so much of the pain of the human condition. At the same time, it subtly points out the fundamental truth of the human condition that we are all alone, feeling isolated and alienated at a deep emotional level when stripped of all our human support systems, devices and props. Yet, it is profoundly spiritual, too, when we consider the ultimate truth that we are ALL-ONE (alone) -- naturally.
WOW!!! what can i say about the year of 1972. tghis song was very special; to me. i lost one of my best friends in a car accident it was devastating and this song got me through it all. i was 12 years old .
TheHealed Child It was a wonderful time to grow up. Hippies had a song for everything life threw at us. We enjoy them still, and they become more meaningful with each passing year.
A very, very sad song from my childhood. I remember they used to play it on the radio in the morning sometimes back in the 70's. Like in the morning while I was getting ready for school. Alone again, naturally...
This was my favorite song when i was 12. Lost my parents way too young. This song is sad, but is also about overcoming sadness and acceptance in a poetic way... if you have ever been there.
This song takes me back.. I was 17 at the time. I never realized how sad the lyrics were. Suddenly this hauntingly beautiful tune pops into my mind in 2019 and here I am.....
dodgeboykev she has fallen off the face of the earth by my reckoning, it's been 36 years now, heaven knows where she is. nowadays only way i can cope with the loss is to take things a day at a time.
cal kal I am not trying to be mean, but maybe she passed away or she may never be located. I feel your pain and grief but we must move on and live our life. Maybe someday you will see her again. Best wishes.
A legkedveltebb akit idáig hallottam!! Minden szerzeménye kiváló , a szövegei nagyon mélyre ható gondolatokkal van tele..... ---- Alone again....... Clair.... stb...stb... különleges a zenei hangzás.....
Sad to say this song is Prophetic, We will lose our Parents someday.Some of us who will lose their Parents will probally play this song over and over again in order to release the tears of pain.
WOW! I had all but completely forgotten the lyrics to this song. How eerily similar to the underlying thread of my life............... sigh! Alone again.......................... naturally................
I just enter college that August 72. It was a very small college in the city encrusted between every bang up building in ward. Classrooms were between shops, stores, warehouses, grocery stores, next to the library a cafeteria with a music box and my Spanish classroom in front of it. My girlfriend was in the capital, in college and I was alone, again, naturally and couple of cute girls were there in the cafeteria sipping a coke. I bought one and a half pack of cigarettes. Then one of the girls ask me from the depth of the sweetest of smiles "do you like music?" sweetly I say "yyeeess!" so she pointed me the music box I pull a quarter, check the songs, and there it was this "Alone again" I never heard that before and not I didn't know who Gilbert Sullivan was; you could ask me then any question on the life and times and music and performers of Johann Sebastian Bach, but on pop music. I pressed 5 times just to anoy the girls a bit. I sat down smiling at the girls and they ask me for a cigarette. Then the music started and ... well felt very very alone...again... naturally thinking on my Sara. So I drank my coke take a last drag from the cigarette and left the place very saddened but in love with such a beautiful melody and arrangement. The Spanish 101 Classroom was across the street and I heard the 5 repeats from there. I was crushed when heard "what can I do?" after that I kept going to the cafeteria and play the song, with a coke and a cigarette and with Sara on my mind. Sometimes the cafeteria was packed and boisterous but everybody shut up when they hear the song. I did this at least once a week until I left the College to the big university in the capital. I never have been alone again since I marry her, naturally...😀
one day I really hope I can listen to this song all the way to the end without blubbing like a baby, even without the music the words are brill. Little did I know when I listened to this in the 70s that it would mean so much now I am in my fifties
Beautiful song but so sad! It is heartbreaking ,these lyrics are sad but hard to forget..i heard this music in the movie "Dark victory"which brought me here..Alone again ,naturally..so many hearts to mend or the eternal heartbreaks or loneliness of the man whose love wasn't accepted..
I remember the 1st time I heard this song on the radio I thought he sounded so much like Paul McCartney....I've always adored this beautiful and sad song...💜💜💜💜
I had a long relationship with a girl called Elaine, when I was at secondary school. We used to listen to David Soul and the Bee Gees up in her bedroom, and we just lay there together on her bed talking about the future and where we wanted to be. She always arranged her hair, similar to Farrah Fawcett, and we used to go for walks that took hours to finish. Still think about her once in a while. I wonder where you are now Elaine ?
Great song. I was 13 when this song came out. Great alto flute (I'm a flautist myself) in this piece. Adds to the lament of the song, which, fortunately, wasn't biographical. Still, the song is difficult to listen to if you follow the lyrics. Great acoustic guitar work by the great studio musician Big Jim Sullivan (RIP....).
In the U.S. Alone Again (Naturally) was on the "Himself" album. Back to Front had Clair on it. Raymond's manager was Gordon Mills, the same manager as Tom Jones. Ray had an arrangement where some of his money went to his mom, he was given a small allowance, and the rest was suppose to be invested. Mills instead pocketed a large sum of the money and Ray successfully sued Mills and got his money back bankrupting Mills. Raymond was taught to play drums and piano by fellow classmate Rick Davis who later went on to form the band Supertramp.
Que manera de volar!!! no hace falta ninguna droga, ni porro, ni nada que se le parezca...solo una buena canción, y volver imaginariamente a la época de mi secundaria, en mi Cruz del Eje querido, en el cual bailábamos en un mosaico,en una baldosa, ahhhh.
In a little while from now If I'm not feeling any less sour I promise myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower And climbing to the top Will throw myself off In an effort to Make it clear to whoever What it's like When you're shattered Left standing in the lurch at a church Were people are saying, My God, that's tough She stood him up No point in us remaining We may as well go home As I did on my own Alone again, naturally To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay Looking forward to who wouldn't do The role I was about to play But as if to knock me down Reality came around And without so much as a mere touch Cut me into little pieces Leaving me to doubt Talk about, God in His mercy Oh, if he really does exist Why did he desert me In my hour of need I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally It seems to me that there are more hearts Broken in the world that can't be mended Left unattended What do we do What do we do Alone again, naturally Looking back over the years And whatever else that appears I remember I cried when my father died Never wishing to hide the tears And at sixty-five years old My mother, God rest her soul Couldn't understand why the only man She had ever loved had been taken Leaving her to start With a heart so badly broken Despite encouragement from me No words were ever spoken And when she passed away I cried and cried all day Alone again, naturally Alone again, naturally
I have a short list of musics in different genres, under circumstances with no knowledge of coming, that makes me cry absoulutely making time and place totally irrelevent. This is one of them.
When that song came out in 1972 I just started sixth grade at a open classroom school in St. Charles, MO which was new concept back then and the only school of it's kind in the area. Instead of separate classrooms all students of a certain grade level were in one room. On Fridays we had "Discovery Friday" which we participated in various activities among those listening to the popular songs of the time. I listened to this song alongside a girl whom was already a close friend of mine and whenever this song plays, it reminds me of her. I had to move out of state after sixth grade and lost contact with her until two years ago when I found her on Facebook and the friendship picked up where it left off so long ago. The friendship started to blossom into love back then when it was interrupted and it has after two years of reconnection began to blossom into love once more. Fortunately I had divorced earlier and she never married. Two weeks ago she visited me up here near St. Louis and we finally kissed she said "I love you" to me and I was overcome with emotion. 42 years I waited for that special moment and it proves that true unconditional love never dies and that patience is to be treasured and good things come to those who wait.
That is such a cool story. Best of luck to you both. I can somewhat relate. Mine happened in 4th grade. One of the last days of school this girl told me she liked me. I was to shy to respond. My family moved that summer, and I never saw her again. I often wonder what would have happened if would have told her I like her too or if we hadn't moved. I tried looking her up on facebook without success.
Wow. This is my first and probably only comment (or reply) as your story is beautiful.
What a lovely story of you Steven...you really meant for each other...God bless you both...smile..
Thank you so very much Susan! Her name is Judy and we are indeed meant for each other. It is very uncanny that we are so much alike in our ways and in what we enjoy. Two years later after I wrote that post we are still write to each other once or twice a week although our lives are very busy. I love Judy with all my heart and I always will.
That was awesome Steven...I believe in once relationship being husband and wife they should follow the "give & take" principle, understanding that's the first thing, so that the relationship will be stable, if both are hot-headed no good will come out of it....love should always be felt so that love will also be the outcome..
Probably one of the saddest songs ever written. Haunting but impossible to ignore.
O'Sullivan is a brilliant song writer who understands how to convey emotions through beautiful melodies. The lyrics are melancholy, but the music is uplifting. The contrast makes this such a haunting, memorable song....very nostalgic for someone who was a young child when this song was popular.
I think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever created... 😢
This song reminds me how I should appreciate and respect my beloved parents.
Nothing for granted.
+Naor Hi :) I love your post. I can assure you of one thing, you will miss your parents when they're gone. Not to sound cold-hearted, but that's simply a fact of life. However, a few things they'd like in the here and now:A phone call, in the middle of the day, for no other reason than to say "How are you?" (be prepared though, cause we may actually tell you how we are!) A card. NOT an ecard, a real, I have to use an actual stamp and snail-mail this card; especially for no reason! If you have kids, pix of them, grandkids are the greatest thing since peanut butter! And if you don't have kids, pix from your everyday life~they may seem mundane to you, but not to your folks, we love knowing our children are happy :)
Anyway, sorry that I horned in on your post. Just title this "I Wish I Woulda"
Peace!
+Debbie Aldred
Really liked your comment. Unfortunately I'm 26 and I don't have kids yet [And i wish I have some because I know it will make my parents very happy]. I guess I'll have to wait... :)
I was 13 when this song was famous, I loved it back then, specially the music. Now at 54, is when I really understand how deep the lyrics are. It could be because as we grow older, we all have gone through the same sour moments the author describes in this song, Exactly how I feel tonight..And in my time of need, I truly am indeed.. Alone again, naturally...
Me too! I am 62!
Don't be sad man! Life has so much more in it than loneliness! One day you'll find someone you find you cannot live without, then you'll see how fantastic life is! I don't think Sullivan is trying to point out how terrible life is when your lonely but that after all the bad things in life he carries on writing songs to all the lonely hearts out there! I'll be your friend if you need one. :)
In the part where he sings "At 65 years old my mother god rest her soul". That part really speaks to me because at 81 years old my mother may she rest in peace passed away the same way when my father passed away. I cried and cried all day for the both of them.
A few days ago my beloved father died and when I'm alone, in the car, or at home, I can not stop crying. And I listen to this song as often as possible, but only when I'm alone.
this song takes me way back to when I was a kid I really miss those days thank you
Well im 25 yrs old . . Ice Age 3 brought me here . . it was the 1st time ive heard this song and i kinda love the song , the lyrics and the way singer sang this song . . good song indeed !
this song brings back sad and happy memories, this goes out to my childhood best friend martin sullivan, who died in 72 . R.I.P. my brother miss ya!! this is for u!!
Older songs are still amazing, more people need to listen to this... it’s so sad but really a great song
I had the words of this song memorized back in 1971 when I was only 8 years old. Still my favorite song.
+123marilao Yeah me too. Brings back so many memories.
This song take me on 1972 when I was only 6 years old. My mother was with me there buying my books to my primary school. I never forgot that time and memories.
aww that's so cute...lindo lindo..
That's impressive that you memorized it in 71 since it was released in 72 (I'm only joking, not trying to be serious).
As life goes by, how remarkably true this song resonates. What an artist. What a great song and melody.
One of the greatest records ever made !!!
Gilbert O'Sullivan hath sung my soul. his original version has been covered more than once, but his still stands as the one that touches me in my loneliest times, and reminds me that just maybe I'm not the only one this lonely... And so, maybe not truly alone... Thanks for posting this.
Wow, just read the lyrics for the first after remembering this song from my childhood. Heavy and deeply moving. Don't make them like that anymore.
Same here, I was 13 when this song was famous, but now at 54 is when I really understand how deep the lyrics are. It could be because as we grow older, we all have gone through the same sour moments the author describes in this song, Exactly how I feel tonight..Alone again, naturally..
Absolutely one of the best melodies ever conceived.
Thanks for posting the music video. It is beautiful but not necessarily sad, just true.
The song speaks so much of the pain of the human condition. At the same time, it subtly points out the fundamental truth of the human condition that we are all alone, feeling isolated and alienated at a deep emotional level when stripped of all our human support systems, devices and props. Yet, it is profoundly spiritual, too, when we consider the ultimate truth that we are ALL-ONE (alone) -- naturally.
WOW!!! what can i say about the year of 1972. tghis song was very special; to me. i lost one of my best friends in a car accident it was devastating and this song got me through it all. i was 12 years old .
Love his entire works...Back to Front and sideways !!!!
im 20 years old and enjoying this song , full of emotion :D
Gilbert O Sullivan is one of my favorite singers. All the songs are good and very touching. Music, song lyrics are very harmonious. !!! Forever !!
Beautiful song, also Royman sing it, and sounds great too, both styles are wonderful, thanks for shared it.
One of the songs of my childhood. I loved this wonderful song: a 1970’s classic; and thank Mr O’Sullivan for the sentiment.🌞🙏🇬🇧🌞
Oh my god!What beautiful lyrics.Gem of a song
This song speaks my state of life now...:( sad but uplifting I wish was born on the generation.
TheHealed Child It was a wonderful time to grow up. Hippies had a song for everything life threw at us. We enjoy them still, and they become more meaningful with each passing year.
A very, very sad song from my childhood. I remember they used to play it on the radio in the morning sometimes back in the 70's. Like in the morning while I was getting ready for school. Alone again, naturally...
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
This song really makes me lonely.Also makes me remember the happy moments of my grandfather.
Thing song rally rips through my heart and soul.Brings back so many bittersweet memories,always bringing tears to my eyes.
I really love this song...won't get tired listening to it...
This is probably the most hauntingly beautiful sad song ever performed.
Still such a great and sad song after all these years.
Beautiful song!
Gilbert is a Amazing singer and this song reminds me of the good old days and I also love Nothing Ryhmed ... amazing singer he is.
Love most of his songs,a great lyricist
Have this stuck in my head from time to time, 70's was a great era in music~
Thanks for this post. First time I ever got all the words to this great song.
My entire life summed up in this incredible song
+Anarkan A this song is about us all :)
+Steve W
Sad how many of us feel the sting, isn't it?
this song really make me cry...good old song
Truly a beautiful song
very touching. I love the wording that is used, it just.... blends
This was my favorite song when i was 12. Lost my parents way too young. This song is sad, but is also about overcoming sadness and acceptance in a poetic way... if you have ever been there.
ricordi del passato, dolci ricordi... grazie
This song takes me back.. I was 17 at the time. I never realized how sad the lyrics were. Suddenly this hauntingly beautiful tune pops into my mind in 2019 and here I am.....
I have always loved this song........so good to hear it again on hear and have the lyrics to sing along to.
Thanks!
Lovely, takes me back to my youth
i fell in love in 1974. i was 11 at the time. her name was elaine. i have yet to get over her. i am alone in love, and have been so since 1979.
I was 13 in 1974. have you tried to find her?
dodgeboykev she has fallen off the face of the earth by my reckoning, it's been 36 years now, heaven knows where she is. nowadays only way i can cope with the loss is to take things a day at a time.
cal kal I am not trying to be mean, but maybe she passed away or she may never be located. I feel your pain and grief but we must move on and live our life. Maybe someday you will see her again. Best wishes.
dodgeboykev you are right. many thanks for your concern. respect.
***** Try it sometime.
amazing song makes me look back on some times in my life when i had felt alone happy new year
Luv this sad song- Remember if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too-
A legkedveltebb akit idáig hallottam!! Minden szerzeménye kiváló , a szövegei nagyon mélyre ható gondolatokkal van tele..... ---- Alone again....... Clair.... stb...stb... különleges a zenei hangzás.....
thanks for Love, Rosie movie...i fall in love with this song n the movie
👍
Sad to say this song is Prophetic, We will lose our Parents someday.Some of us who will lose their Parents will probally play this song over and over again in order to release the tears of pain.
very great artist,beautiful,sad song.
awesome lyrics, and so true....
a very sad song way back in time.their is still hope in man for there's a God that speaks to every broken hearted,if we just listen..
Sucha wonderful theme.. memories from my childhood :)
I love this guys voice. I havent heard this song since I was a kid. I have taken it on as my life theme song.
WOW! I had all but completely forgotten the lyrics to this song. How eerily similar to the underlying thread of my life............... sigh! Alone again.......................... naturally................
we all come to the same end(":
archie977 Yup tis true. But in the MEANtime, it's just mean!!!! :-P
I love his style and voice !!
I just enter college that August 72. It was a very small college in the city encrusted between every bang up building in ward. Classrooms were between shops, stores, warehouses, grocery stores, next to the library a cafeteria with a music box and my Spanish classroom in front of it. My girlfriend was in the capital, in college and I was alone, again, naturally and couple of cute girls were there in the cafeteria sipping a coke. I bought one and a half pack of cigarettes. Then one of the girls ask me from the depth of the sweetest of smiles "do you like music?" sweetly I say "yyeeess!" so she pointed me the music box I pull a quarter, check the songs, and there it was this "Alone again" I never heard that before and not I didn't know who Gilbert Sullivan was; you could ask me then any question on the life and times and music and performers of Johann Sebastian Bach, but on pop music. I pressed 5 times just to anoy the girls a bit. I sat down smiling at the girls and they ask me for a cigarette. Then the music started and ... well felt very very alone...again... naturally thinking on my Sara. So I drank my coke take a last drag from the cigarette and left the place very saddened but in love with such a beautiful melody and arrangement. The Spanish 101 Classroom was across the street and I heard the 5 repeats from there. I was crushed when heard "what can I do?" after that I kept going to the cafeteria and play the song, with a coke and a cigarette and with Sara on my mind. Sometimes the cafeteria was packed and boisterous but everybody shut up when they hear the song. I did this at least once a week until I left the College to the big university in the capital. I never have been alone again since I marry her, naturally...😀
Nice story man. Glad it ended up great for you.
one day I really hope I can listen to this song all the way to the end without blubbing like a baby, even without the music the words are brill. Little did I know when I listened to this in the 70s that it would mean so much now I am in my fifties
Beautiful song but so sad! It is heartbreaking ,these lyrics are sad but hard to forget..i heard this music in the movie "Dark victory"which brought me here..Alone again ,naturally..so many hearts to mend or the eternal heartbreaks or loneliness of the man whose love wasn't accepted..
beautifully done video, so true for some, so sad for others so beautiful for all
A total classic...
STILL a great song after all these yrs.
I remember the 1st time I heard this song on the radio I thought he sounded so much like Paul McCartney....I've always adored this beautiful and sad song...💜💜💜💜
almost valentines day,had to listen
I had a long relationship with a girl called Elaine, when I was at secondary school. We used to listen to David Soul and the Bee Gees up in her bedroom, and we just lay there together on her bed talking about the future and where we wanted to be.
She always arranged her hair, similar to Farrah Fawcett, and we used to go for walks that took hours to finish.
Still think about her once in a while. I wonder where you are now Elaine ?
+rick freeman so is your mother, I should know.
Steve W
You must be sick. My mother died in 2002.
rick freeman Like that would stop me.
@@700kotchi you go to hell
BRILLIANT VERSION! thanks 🙏🏽 a lot
Back a lot of memories,thank u!!!
HERMOSAS NOSTALGIAS, CÓMO OLVIDARLOS!? Gracias miñ peruven!!!!!
What a GREAT song this is!!!
Beautiful!
I got my heart broken a million times
this is what you call real music
When you feel like the lyrics in this song....Get out & live this life to the fullest!
Best song ever!!
Never been loved,
Never been kissed,
Want to say so many things, but never have someone.
Deepika Dutta i love u
Deepika Dutta humans have a need that can only be fulfilled in Jesus. In Him one day all sorrows will be turned to joy. May God bless and keep you.
My favorite song during my frustrated years. So sad.....
Great song. I was 13 when this song came out. Great alto flute (I'm a flautist myself) in this piece. Adds to the lament of the song, which, fortunately, wasn't biographical. Still, the song is difficult to listen to if you follow the lyrics. Great acoustic guitar work by the great studio musician Big Jim Sullivan (RIP....).
I heard this in Love, Rosie and I immediately researched the song because I fell in love with it.
beautiful song
In the U.S. Alone Again (Naturally) was on the "Himself" album. Back to Front had Clair on it. Raymond's manager was Gordon Mills, the same manager as Tom Jones. Ray had an arrangement where some of his money went to his mom, he was given a small allowance, and the rest was suppose to be invested. Mills instead pocketed a large sum of the money and Ray successfully sued Mills and got his money back bankrupting Mills.
Raymond was taught to play drums and piano by fellow classmate Rick Davis who later went on to form the band Supertramp.
very nice n sad song
A very powerful song that could have been written for me very special :)
Que manera de volar!!! no hace falta ninguna droga, ni porro, ni nada
que se le parezca...solo una buena canción, y volver imaginariamente a
la época de mi secundaria, en mi Cruz del Eje querido, en el cual bailábamos en un mosaico,en una baldosa, ahhhh.
i have them days, being alone more than often, and me losing my mom and dad just tops it all, but i must carry on .
Very Good .. Thanks
Excellent quality
What memories, summer 1972. I was 16.
awesome song.. but very sad..
soothe me softly.
great song x
In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to
Make it clear to whoever
What it's like
When you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Were people are saying, My God, that's tough
She stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to who wouldn't do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about, God in His mercy
Oh, if he really does exist
Why did he desert me
In my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that
there are more hearts
Broken in the world
that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do
What do we do
Alone again, naturally
Looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
I have a short list of musics in different genres, under circumstances with no knowledge of coming, that makes me cry absoulutely making time and place totally irrelevent. This is one of them.
hermosa canción, tan lindos recuerdos
The story of my life that song is!