The music is loud. People are everywhere. You are laughing, dancing, being the life of the party. And then you get home. The door closes. The silence hits. And you realize you feel more alone now than you did before you went out.
“Lonelier with You” flips the whole concept of loneliness on its head.
“This is not about being alone,” Tom Bruggemann explains. “It is about being with someone and feeling more alone than when you are by yourself. That is a different kind of lonely. A worse kind.”
The song speaks to anyone who has ever been in a relationship that looked perfect from the outside but felt hollow on the inside. Two people sharing a bed and a life but not really connecting. Going through the motions. Performing togetherness while dying of loneliness.
Have you ever looked at the person sitting next to you and felt like they were a million miles away? Have you ever craved solitude because at least when you are alone, you are not pretending?
Tom has. And this song is proof that sometimes the loneliest place in the world is right next to someone who is supposed to love you.