"The Social Recluse" - Arjen Anthony Lucassen...

[AGXStarseed]

How many of you can resonate with this song?

Lyrics:
I might just stay at home again
Hanging out with virtual friends
Let's meet up in 3D space
Waste some time playing pointless games

(You are on your own)
We don't have to talk anymore
(But never quite alone)
This idle chatter, it's such a bore
(Feeling right at home)
Don't even need to know your name
(Your own comfort zone)
I won't remember it anyway

'Cause in this virtual realm of my imagination
I make friends without obligations
I live like a social recluse
In the comfort of my own mind

I thrive on isolation
But you're welcome to my simulation
Call me a social recluse
But I never felt more alive

We're all connected in this virtual life
There are no boundaries once inside
No need to travel or see anyone
No need to touch or feel anything

(You are on your own)
I never liked to socialize
(But never quite alone)
It's not my nature to compromise
(Feeling right at home)
If I don't trust you, I turn you off
(Your own comfort zone)
And pull the plug once I had enough

I'm living a life without complications
Avoiding all close relations
I'm glad I'm a social recluse
All I want, I've got here inside

I hook up to this new application
Tap into the latest sensation
Call me a social recluse
But this is all I need in my life

 

[Judge]

I prefer this one:

A winter's day
In a deep and dark
December
I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island

I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock
I am an island

Don't talk of love
But I've heard the words before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock
I am an island

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island

And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries

 

[OlLiE]

i tend to go for 'jef neve' (modern instrumental jazz) no text but beautiful piano and string, each with their own voice, neither speaking, pure, well defined melodic linear sound (no chorus or repetitions - just a theme that is carried through)that has to be enjoyed in a quiet environment, just the way i like it

 

[AGXStarseed]

I prefer this one:

A winter's day
In a deep and dark
December
I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island

I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock
I am an island

Don't talk of love
But I've heard the words before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock
I am an island

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island

And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries

Here's the song for people to listen to.

 

[oregano]

I don't want to dig it up on Youtube right now, but one of my personal favorites is "I" by Black Sabbath from the 1992 album Dehumanizer. It's angrier and more in-your-face than the other posts in this thread, and I know that even mainstream heavy metal is not for everybody, but it's a personal favorite.

 

[Alaska]

I like the Simon and Garfunkel one and have for a while. I use a Pandora station for Simon and Garfunkel and another for Paul Simon, so I hear that song a lot. It seems peculiarly suited to most people on this forum.

It is a great song to listen to if I feel like wallowing in my social ineptitude. Other times I can listen to it and just notice how well it describes things for me, and remind myself that I can still choose to change things.

 

[Momo]

Good song, but I prefer the more ethereal stuff. Just lulls me into complete oblivion.

 

[Tyrantus1212]

I love "I am a Rock" and am a Simon and Garfunkel fan in general. I used to be a rock, and have since become a partial rock and making an attempt to be even less of a rock. At the same time I'm very much afraid of regressing back into my "rockdom" because being a rock for so long grew very lonely and tiresome.

I'm kind of a social recluse; I have very few real-life friends and many online ones right now. Even in the recluse world, some of my Battle.net online friends removed me whenever I wrote too much in the chat window so I kind of felt more like a "social recluse recluse".