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"I Alone" is the second single from Live's album, Throwing Copper. The single was released to radio stations in Canada and the United States, but was only released commercially overseas. It reached #6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was ranked 62nd best song of the 1990s by VH1.
Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said of the songs lyrics, "People think 'I Alone' is a love song but it really wasn't. The lyrics were more abstract, encompassing a much larger message." He explained the line, "The greatest of teachers won't hesitate to leave you there by yourself chained to fate," by saying that a profound lesson he derived from studying spiritual teachings was that religion and truth must be found for oneself and practiced, rather than just accepting the word of others.
Live performed "I Alone" at the Woodstock '99 festival on July 23, 1999 in Rome, New York. The song was featured in the tv shows Homicide: Life on the Streets, Beavis and Butt-head and Hindsight.
The song reached #20 in the Dutch charts and #48 in the UK.
Loud and proud
Loud and proud
Alone, in the crowd
Sometimes I feel more dead than alive
Sometimes I feel I can do it this time
Sometimes I feel so empty inside
Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind
Sometimes I feel like trash cast aside
Sometimes I feel suffocated by the lies
I want to burn it
I want to hurt them
The spider readies the web
May the bridges I burn light my way
Isolated in defiance, I will remain
May the bridges I burn light my way
I will never comply, I'll forever defy
I'm strange
I'm odd
I'm queer
I'm flawed
I'm one of a kind
I'm strange
I'm odd
I'm queer
I'm flawed
I am divine
Alone, in the crowd
Sometimes I feel nothing at all
Sometimes I feel everything is my fault
Sometimes I feel the hate break my mind
Sometimes I feel they deserve it this time
Sometimes I feel my scars are for rent
Sometimes I feel my hands around their necks
I want to crush them
I want to hurt them
The spider readies the web
May the bridges I burn light my way
Isolated in defiance, I will remain
May the bridges I burn light my way
I will never comply, I'll forever defy
I'm strange
I'm odd
I'm queer
I'm flawed
I'm one of a kind
I'm strange
I'm odd
I'm queer
I'm flawed
I am divine
Don't let the heavy drapes of the world drag you down
I don't wanna be complete
I don't wanna be content
I don't wanna be perfect
I don't wanna be like them
Loud and proud
Loud and proud
I don't wanna be complete
I don't wanna be content
I don't wanna be perfect
I don't wanna be like them
May the bridges I burn light my way
Isolated in defiance, I will remain
May the bridges I burn light my way
I will never comply, I'll forever defy
Loud and proud