Lonely Troubadour

verseThey say no one's an island
They don't know how to read a map
People drift like continents
Never quite drifting back

I can sit next to you
Like I'm not even there
The more we wire together
The less we truly share

verseThe bard is wandering
Trading songs for scattered coins
His sad songs go unheard
Amid the comings and the goings

chorusEverywhere we look
Lands surrounded by seas
All the drift and gravity
Just loneliness by degree

verseThere are islands in the crowd
Bubbles in the raging throng
Struggling with the current
Still carried right along

verseRejecting the closeness of you
While reading your personal feed
Cats and meals and books you like
Denying the very thing I need

Scrolling through a hundred lives
Blue glow in the dark
Trading pieces of ourselves
Like sparks that leave no mark

chorusEverywhere we look
Lands surrounded by seas
All the drift and gravity
Just loneliness by degree

bridgeI get lonely now and then
But do I really want you in
Even islands can be reached
Though some turn boats from the beach

verseEverything I need is here
That's what I tell myself
A hut, a beach, a coconut phone
My feelings on a shelf

versePlay me a song, troubadour
And I will gladly never listen
Safe inside my little world
Where I remain unforgiven

outroThere are many kinds of islands
Even standing on the shore
No one joins the singing
With the lonely troubadour