Alone in a Crowded World

I wake up with the city shaking under my floor,

Same cracked ceiling, same unanswered door.

Coffee goes cold while the traffic starts to scream,

I wear a brave face over a tired machine.

Friends post bright pictures, but they never call,

I count every footstep fading down the hall.

Life keeps moving like a runaway train,

I’m holding on with both hands through the rain.

I talk to the walls, they know my name,

I laugh with the crowd, but it feels the same.

I’m alone in a crowded world,

A broken flag, a battle unfurled.

I keep breathing, I keep going,

Even when there’s no one knowing.

Life hits hard, but I won’t fall,

I’m still here, I’m still standing tall.

Alone in a crowded world,

Still turning as the earth gets pulled.

I’ve got old receipts and a pocket of dreams,

A phone full of numbers and nobody speaks.

The bus rolls past where we used to meet,

Now I hear my own shoes on the empty street.

I learned that pain doesn’t ask for a chair,

It sits at the table like it belongs there.

But every scar is a map I can read,

Every hard mile planted something in me.

I talk to the walls, they know my name,

I laugh with the crowd, but it feels the same.

I’m alone in a crowded world,

A broken flag, a battle unfurled.

I keep breathing, I keep going,

Even when there’s no one knowing.

Life hits hard, but I won’t fall,

I’m still here, I’m still standing tall.

Alone in a crowded world,

Still turning as the earth gets pulled.

Maybe the silence is not the end,

Maybe a stranger can become a friend.

Maybe the heart, though bruised and scarred,

Can build a door from the broken parts.

I don’t need the whole sky tonight,

Just one small hand, one porch light.

I’m alone in a crowded world,

A broken flag, a battle unfurled.

I keep breathing, I keep going,

Even when there’s no one knowing.

Life hits hard, but I won’t fall,

I’m still here, I’m still standing tall.

Alone in a crowded world,

Still turning as the earth gets pulled.