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Rewrite of the classic Heart song, Alone

I hear the ticking of my bioglogical clock

I'm cryin' again

Layin' here in the cold room's rose pitch dark

I wonder why everyone else I know

Has a date tonight

No texts or calls on my cell phone

And my night as always

Moves on so very slow

Oh God why can't I be normal?

Why can't I make it through?

Go on

Be without

Why can't I handle being

Alone

Not then

Not now

Can I stand

Even a second on my own

Without a hand to hold

Is it just me?

Or does it happen to you too?

Do you get chills down to the bone?

How do you handle life alone?

How do you handle life alone?

Those of you married and happy

You don't understand

How badly a single like me

Wants only lips with me to speak

To love and promise

Arms to hold me tight

Keep the lonely night at bay, oh

You don't know how long I waited

And how much it hurts

To have no one

To share that with tonight

And so here I remain on my own

A better life and companion for me

It seems to be

Always unknown

Chorus

How do you handle life alone?

How do you handle life alone?

Alone, please God

I can't go on

Forever  alone

2013 Ramona Thompson