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| 7 | YouAreNotAlone in {{Music|Tropes}}. |
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| 9 | * Music/AetherRealm: The CentralTheme of "Guardian", which consists of the speaker telling the listener that he will be their guardian from loneliness and a hostile world. |
| 10 | -->''I will be your guardian from loneliness\ |
| 11 | Feel my love surround you\ |
| 12 | Share your burden, I will carry it\ |
| 13 | A refuge all around you\ |
| 14 | When sorrow overtakes you\ |
| 15 | You can call on me\ |
| 16 | Lay your troubles on me friend\ |
| 17 | I'll be with you til the end\ |
| 18 | I'll be your guardian'' |
| 19 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4wuyk_PTuQ You're Not Alone]]" (original title: "Jeff") by Music/JacquesBrel, popularized in English by the show ''Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris''. |
| 20 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGoC_qvx7Cs&list=FL6Bk5_uCed8BqNH1ab9ZPXQ&index=4&feature=plpp_video "Magenta"]] by nano. |
| 21 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZetnq2qm94 Embrace - You're Not Alone]] among many, ''many'' others. |
| 22 | * Music/TokioHotel - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6o5K-BAuio By Your Side]] |
| 23 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrzFTZ7YGw "You're Not Alone"]] by Saosin. |
| 24 | * "Everybody Hurts" by Music/{{REM}} uses this as the crux of its anti-suicide message, noting how the listener's suffering is shared by countless other people who they can stand in solidarity with instead of taking their life. Ironically, its parent album, ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'', was infamously the last thing that Music/KurtCobain listened to before he killed himself. |
| 25 | -->If you feel like you're alone / No, no, no, you're not alone. |
| 26 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmbgCBZ86z4 Two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx_Qqzs4cfk songs]], both named "You're Not Alone", from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' |
| 27 | * ''You Are Not Alone'' by Music/{{Eagles}} |
| 28 | * Mumford & Sons' ''Timshel'' ("And you are not alone in this / As brothers we'll stand and we'll hold your hand") |
| 29 | ** Although there's a partial subversion in the final line: "But I can't move the mountains for you." |
| 30 | * "Roll With the Changes" by Music/REOSpeedwagon. |
| 31 | * Parts of "We Are Young" by fun.: |
| 32 | -->''So if by the time the bar closes\ |
| 33 | And you feel like falling down\ |
| 34 | I'll carry you home tonight...'' |
| 35 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv829hUuYAM Two Steps Behind]] by Music/DefLeppard qualifies. |
| 36 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qPcmNdduVU You Find Out Who Your Friends Are]] is this trope in every way but the exact words. The video makes it even better. |
| 37 | * Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA Bridge Over Troubled Water]]. |
| 38 | --> I'm on your side / When times get rough... |
| 39 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2P6JKc1QE "Clumsy"]] by Music/OurLadyPeace could be considered a deconstruction of this. The narrator ''wants'' to help a friend in need, but for one reason or another, the friend is resistant to help. A much more straight example from the band is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhLPwJ5Q_k "Right Behind You."]] |
| 40 | * "Never Too Late" by Music/{{Three Days Grace}}: |
| 41 | --> ''Even if I say It'll be alright\ |
| 42 | Still I hear you say You want to end your life\ |
| 43 | Now and again we try to just stay alive\ |
| 44 | Maybe we'll turn it all around, 'cause it's not too late, it's never too late'' |
| 45 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg4ekLG9Zo Rock and Roll Suicide]] by Music/DavidBowie is an extremely emotional song, starting slow and melancholic, then breaking out into beautiful passion as he cries out, "Oh, no, love, you're not alone!" |
| 46 | ** Perhaps quoting from Jacques Brel's "No, Love, You're Not Alone," which builds up that way. Bowie was admittedly a fan of Brel's songs. |
| 47 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGLSk3AVcUU&ob=av2e "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"]] by Josh Groban. |
| 48 | * Music/AvrilLavigne's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTKtJFEAf_w Keep Holding On]]''. The whole song really, but the opening lines say it directly. |
| 49 | --> ''You're not alone, together we stand\ |
| 50 | I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand'' |
| 51 | ** Likewise, "I'm With You" is from the point of someone devastated, confused, and lonely who finds hope in the companionship of someone she doesn't even know yet: |
| 52 | -->''It's a damn cold night\ |
| 53 | Trying to figure out this life\ |
| 54 | Won't you take me by the hand?\ |
| 55 | Take me somewhere new'' |
| 56 | * Roger & Hammerstein's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6V9EbnNx6U You'll Never Walk Alone]]". |
| 57 | ** So awesome, to the extent that it became (and is best known as) the club anthem of Liverpool FC (to the point where the title is displayed on the Shankly Gates) and later, Celtic FC and Borussia Dortmund, oddly enough. |
| 58 | ** And the BootstrappedTheme of the Creator/JerryLewis MDA Telethon. |
| 59 | ** This is also the Madison Scouts' corps anthem (invoked when current members and alumni use the acronym MYNWA, or May You Never Walk Alone). |
| 60 | * The chorus to Music/MichelleBranch's "Everywhere". |
| 61 | --> ''Cause you're everywhere to me\ |
| 62 | And when I catch my breath, it's you I see\ |
| 63 | You're everything I know that makes me believe\ |
| 64 | I'm not alone.'' |
| 65 | * ''A Better Place, A Better Time'' by Streetlight Manifesto. |
| 66 | --> ''I know that you think that you're on your own\ |
| 67 | But just know that I'm here\ |
| 68 | And I'll lead you home\ |
| 69 | If you let me.'' |
| 70 | * Music/MichaelJackson's / R.Kelly's "You Are Not Alone" is about being with someone in an emotional sense if not a physical one. |
| 71 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouXwxvbSIgM (You Were) Never Alone]]'' by SAGA |
| 72 | * Music/{{Nickelback}} brings us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWQ-oDMG6g Never Gonna Be Alone]] |
| 73 | -->''You're never gonna be alone\ |
| 74 | From this moment on.\ |
| 75 | If you ever feel like letting go\ |
| 76 | I won't let you fall.'' |
| 77 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdjRmM0Q0qs "By Your Side" by Tenth Avenue North]]. |
| 78 | ** And in the same vein, "Not Alone" by RED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ODDtLMiGnY It's sung from God's point of view. |
| 79 | * Music/SavageGarden's "Crash and Burn." |
| 80 | -->''Let me be the one you call\ |
| 81 | If you jump I'll break your fall\ |
| 82 | Lift you up and fly away with you into the night\ |
| 83 | If you need to fall apart\ |
| 84 | I can mend a broken heart\ |
| 85 | If you need to crash\ |
| 86 | Then crash and burn, you're not alone'' |
| 87 | * A running theme of Music/BraveSaintSaturn's music; the phrase "You are not alone" shows up in the liner notes of the first album. |
| 88 | ** A few years later, at the parent band Music/FiveIronFrenzy's final concert, Reese chanted those same words over the bridge of the last song they ever played together. "You are not alone, you are not alone, you are never alone." |
| 89 | * The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHcQQs4h8f0 "Never Alone"]] from ''Film/{{Fame}}''. Beautiful and uplifting. |
| 90 | * Music/{{Eminem}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s "Not Afraid"]]. Just listen to the lyrics by the end! |
| 91 | -->''Everybody, everybody, come take my hand\ |
| 92 | We'll walk this road together, through the storm\ |
| 93 | Whatever weather\ |
| 94 | Just lettin' you know\ |
| 95 | You're not alone'' |
| 96 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl1rRxG251s Don't Give Up]] by Music/PeterGabriel and Music/KateBush (and a whole lot of other people who've done a cover of it since), originally from Peter's album ''Music/{{So}}''. |
| 97 | -->''Don't give up, 'cause you still have friends'' [...]\ |
| 98 | ''When times get rough, you can fall back on us.'' |
| 99 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXpw3j9itzc Not Alone]] by Music/LinkinPark. There's also "Shadow of the Day", "Heavy" (quite literally in the song's music video) and "One More Light". |
| 100 | * Music/LadyGaga's Dance in the Dark has this at parts of it. |
| 101 | --> ''You will never fall apart\ |
| 102 | Diana, you're still in our hearts\ |
| 103 | Never let you fall apart\ |
| 104 | Together we'll dance in the dark'' |
| 105 | * From the title track of the album "We Are The Others" by Music/{{Delain}} |
| 106 | -->''If you feel mistreated, torn and cheated,\ |
| 107 | You are not alone.'' |
| 108 | * Although a very [[TogetherInDeath dark version]], this trope is featured in "Like You" by Music/{{Evanescence}} |
| 109 | -->''You're not alone\ |
| 110 | No matter what they told you\ |
| 111 | You're not alone\ |
| 112 | I'll be right beside you forevermore'' |
| 113 | * Music/KirbyKrackleMusic: The chorus of "The Day My Powers Arrived" has Professor X and Colossus reassure the protagonist that they'll help as long as it takes. Said protagonist makes this same promise to another {{Mutant}} at the end of the song. |
| 114 | * 'Aftermath', by Music/AdamLambert is very much this trope. |
| 115 | * ''That's What Friends Are For'' |
| 116 | --> ''Whoa, and then for the times when we're apart\ |
| 117 | Well, then close your eyes and know\ |
| 118 | These words are comin' from my heart\ |
| 119 | And then if you can remember, oh\ |
| 120 | Keep smiling, keep shining\ |
| 121 | Knowing you can always count on me, for sure\ |
| 122 | That's what friends are for\ |
| 123 | In good times, in bad times\ |
| 124 | I'll be on your side forever more\ |
| 125 | Oh, that's what friends are for'' |
| 126 | * "I will Carry You" by Clay Aiken. |
| 127 | -->>''You should know now that you're not alone\ |
| 128 | Take my heart and you will find, we will find, a way home'' |
| 129 | * Music/{{Supertramp}}'s Hide In Your Shell is a great example of this trope. |
| 130 | --> ''If I can help you, if I can help you\ |
| 131 | If I can help you, just let me know'' |
| 132 | * Splashdown had one in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SczHhZbFohA I Understand.]]" |
| 133 | * The line ''"Believe in me as I believe in you"'' from Music/TheSmashingPumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight," already a generally uplifting song, can be interpreted as this. |
| 134 | * The Corrs song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbVREPnHTE "At Your Side"]] |
| 135 | --> ''I'll be at your side\ |
| 136 | There's no need to worry\ |
| 137 | Together, we'll survive\ |
| 138 | Through the haste & hurry'' |
| 139 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA2k79EGHbc The voice within]], by Music/ChristinaAguilera. |
| 140 | -->''Young girl, don’t cry\ |
| 141 | I’ll be right here when your world starts to fall.'' |
| 142 | * Music/RandyNewman's "You've Got A Friend In Me", from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': |
| 143 | --> ''When the road looks rough ahead\ |
| 144 | And you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed\ |
| 145 | You just remember what your old pal said:\ |
| 146 | Boy, you've got a friend in me.'' |
| 147 | * Music/PaulMcCartney's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gQqpUMotU Always Somebody Who Cares]]" |
| 148 | * Second album by ''Music/BreakingBenjamin'' is titled "We Are Not Alone" |
| 149 | * "Not Alone" by Creator/DarrenCriss, from Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical: |
| 150 | -->''Baby, you're not alone, 'cause you're here with me\ |
| 151 | And nothing's ever gonna bring us down, 'cause nothing can keep me from loving you\ |
| 152 | And you know it's true\ |
| 153 | It don't matter what'll come to be\ |
| 154 | Our love is all we need to make it through'' |
| 155 | * There are a lot of songs titled "Hitori Ja Nai" (which is the article title in Japanese) in [=JPop=]. With various flavors, too. |
| 156 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEAbFAqhLZ8 Für Immer]] by the German band Unheilig: |
| 157 | --> ''Weinst Du auch, wenn Deine Welt zerbricht? Weinst Du? Ich weine mit!\ |
| 158 | Brauchst Du mich, wenn Du am Abgrund stehst? Springst Du? Ich halte Dich!''\ |
| 159 | Translates to: \ |
| 160 | ''Do you cry when your world breaks apart? Do you cry? I cry with you!\ |
| 161 | Do you need me when you're in front of the abyss? Do you jump? I hold you!'' |
| 162 | * "Valkyrie Missile" by ''Music/AngelsAndAirwaves''. |
| 163 | -->''If you're here and you're all alone tonight\ |
| 164 | Then I'll give you a free ride\ |
| 165 | Take a chance 'cause I know you want to\ |
| 166 | If only you'll hold on, just hold on\ |
| 167 | I'm here and I'm with you\ |
| 168 | I'm here too, I feel you\ |
| 169 | We'll get through\ |
| 170 | I know this, I've seen it\ |
| 171 | A hundred times, a thousand times\ |
| 172 | Just one more time with you and I\ |
| 173 | I'll pull you close...\ |
| 174 | And then we'll say goodbye.'' |
| 175 | * "Carolyn" by Black Veil Brides |
| 176 | -->''You're not alone\ |
| 177 | And we'll brave this storm.'' |
| 178 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8WtL7xCd4I "Stranger Things Have Happened"]] by Music/FooFighters. |
| 179 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYg85MSvSU Dare ka ga Kimi wo Aishiteru]] by Takayuki Miyauchi. |
| 180 | -->''Dare ka ga kimi wo, aishiteru\ |
| 181 | Dare ka ga kimi wo, shinjiteru\ |
| 182 | Dare ka ga kimi wo, motometeru\ |
| 183 | Doko ka de, doko ka de''\ |
| 184 | Translates to:\ |
| 185 | ''Somebody out there loves you\ |
| 186 | Somebody out there believes in you\ |
| 187 | Somebody out there is looking for you\ |
| 188 | Somewhere, somewhere'' |
| 189 | * Music/{{Skillet}}: |
| 190 | ** "Whispers in the Dark" by Music/{{Skillet}}: |
| 191 | --> ''No, you'll never be alone\ |
| 192 | When darkness comes\ |
| 193 | I'll light the night with stars\ |
| 194 | Hear my whispers in the dark\ |
| 195 | No, you'll never be alone\ |
| 196 | When darkness comes\ |
| 197 | You know I'm never far\ |
| 198 | Hear my whispers in the dark'' |
| 199 | ** While it's not as overt as "Whispers in the Dark", "Awake and Alive" expresses a similar sentiment, especially in the lines immediately preceding the chorus in the first two verses: |
| 200 | --->''It's getting harder to stay awake\ |
| 201 | And my strength is fading fast\ |
| 202 | You breathe into me at last'' |
| 203 | :::And |
| 204 | --->''When my faith is getting weak\ |
| 205 | And I feel like giving in\ |
| 206 | You breathe into me again'' |
| 207 | ** This theme is repeated in "The Last Night", wherein the singer is speaking to a girl suffering from depression. |
| 208 | --> ''This is the last night you'll spend alone\ |
| 209 | Look me in the eyes so I know you know\ |
| 210 | I'm everywhere you want me to be'' |
| 211 | * "Message in a Bottle" by ''Music/ThePolice'' tells the story of a castaway who sends out an S.O.S. in a bottle, and waits for a year with no reply. Then... |
| 212 | -->''Woke up this morning, don't believe what I saw:\ |
| 213 | Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore.\ |
| 214 | Seems I'm not alone in being alone,\ |
| 215 | Hundred billion castaways looking for a home.'' |
| 216 | ** Ostensibly, it's just about a castaway... but considering who came up with the song, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that the hidden message is You Are Not Alone. |
| 217 | * "Run With Us" by Lisa Lougheed, the [[EndingTheme theme song]] for ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons''. |
| 218 | -->''If a desperate love,\ |
| 219 | Keeps on driving you wrong,\ |
| 220 | Don't be afraid,\ |
| 221 | You're not alone.'' |
| 222 | * "Yubiwa" by Creator/MaayaSakamoto, which was used for the BigDamnMovie of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''; |
| 223 | ** Lyrics [[http://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/sakamoto/yubiwa23k.htm found here.]] |
| 224 | * Music/LadyAntebellum and JimBrickman give us ''Never Alone'' |
| 225 | -->''When hard times have found you\ |
| 226 | And your fears surround you\ |
| 227 | Wrap my love around you\ |
| 228 | You're never alone'' |
| 229 | * "I'll Stand By You" from Music/{{Pretenders}} |
| 230 | -->''When the night falls on you\ |
| 231 | You don't know what to do\ |
| 232 | Nothing you confess\ |
| 233 | Could make me love you less\ |
| 234 | I'll stand by you'' |
| 235 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBaFpxkBOQ& Lean On Me]]" by Bill Withers. |
| 236 | * "Your Heart Will Lead You Home" by Music/KennyLoggins, used for ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie''. |
| 237 | * My Dearest; by Music/{{supercell}}, used as the opening for the ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' Anime, the song is about someone who realizes they are not alone and then does everything they can for that person, [[http://suisei.kokidokom.net/2011/11/22/supercell-my-dearest-lyrics-translation/ lyrics found here.]] |
| 238 | * Music/DireStraits' "Brothers In Arms" as the name would suggest; |
| 239 | --> ''Through these fields of destruction, baptism of fire\ |
| 240 | I've witnessed your suffering as the battles raged higher\ |
| 241 | And though they did hurt me so bad, in the fear and alarm\ |
| 242 | You did not desert me, my [[TitleDrop brothers in arms]]'' |
| 243 | * Music/PinkFloyd's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hxpnnNREQ Outside The Wall]]" at the end of the extremely dark album ''Music/TheWall'', where the titular wall represents the emotional barrier many have built sealing themselves off from the world. |
| 244 | --> ''All alone, or in twos,\ |
| 245 | The ones who really love you\ |
| 246 | Walk up and down outside the wall. \ |
| 247 | Some hand in hand,\ |
| 248 | some gathered together in bands,\ |
| 249 | the bleeding hearts and the artists make their stand.\ |
| 250 | And when they've given you their all,\ |
| 251 | some stagger and fall after all, it's not easy.\ |
| 252 | Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall.'' |
| 253 | ** From their earlier album ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'', there's "Pigs on the Wing, Pt. II", in which the narrator finds comfort in the company of others frustrated with and oppressed by the pigs. |
| 254 | ** The message of "Brain Damage," from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', can be boiled down to this. |
| 255 | --> ''And if the dam breaks open many years too soon\ |
| 256 | And if there is no room upon the hill\ |
| 257 | And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too\ |
| 258 | I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.'' |
| 259 | * Seal's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXsAtWbEoRU Don't Cry]]", whose chorus says it best: |
| 260 | --> ''Don't cry, you're not alone.\ |
| 261 | Don't cry tonight, my baby.\ |
| 262 | Don't cry, you'll always be loved.\ |
| 263 | Don't cry tonight, my baby.'' |
| 264 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnDEFyV88Qs "Not Alone"]] by Music/AllThatRemains. Though it's more "''I'' am not alone" than "''you'' are not alone", it's a similar sentiment. (Also ambiguous is whether it's referring to a woman or to a God.) |
| 265 | --> ''I'm not alone\ |
| 266 | With the touch of your hand\ |
| 267 | I am whole again'' |
| 268 | * Brandon Heath's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSj1Cy2xf3s It's No Good To Be Alone]]" |
| 269 | * Music/PearlJam's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2WkeeMd5_0 Present Tense]]": |
| 270 | --> ''You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets, oh\ |
| 271 | Or you can come to terms and realize\ |
| 272 | You're the only one who can't forgive yourself, oh\ |
| 273 | Makes much more sense, to live in the present tense'' |
| 274 | * Music/{{Nickelback}}: |
| 275 | ** "Lullaby" by Music/{{Nickelback}} is full of this trope, calling out to the listener that no matter where they are, there is ''someone'' who wants them to make it through. |
| 276 | ** "Somebody for Me", as well, though the sentiment is more romantic than most examples. |
| 277 | * Second Person's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS5H52JuDb4 Paper Umbrella]]" is about someone desperately trying to convince their friend that they are not alone in their suffering. Lyrics can be interprerted for nearly any situation - mourning the loss of a loved one, divorce, a parent consoling a child, or even a child consoling a parent. |
| 278 | * Stick To Your Guns, a hardcore band, brings us Amber, a song about a girl who thinks nobody cares about her. The lyrics speak to the listener at some point, as well. |
| 279 | -->''She screams "oh"\ |
| 280 | I've had enough please make this go\ |
| 281 | The sea is rough and I'm drowning slow\ |
| 282 | The mind-numbing pain has her lost in the undertow\ |
| 283 | But braves her storm\ |
| 284 | You're not alone'' |
| 285 | * "Not Alone" by Music/{{Red|Band}}. Pretty much the same sort of thing as many of the songs already here. |
| 286 | * "The Unwinding Cable Car" and "Hello Alone" by Music/{{Anberlin}}. The latter is an aversion until the last line of the song, though. |
| 287 | * Music/DeathCabForCutie's "I Will Follow You Into The Dark": |
| 288 | --> ''If Heaven and Hell decide\ |
| 289 | They both are satisfied\ |
| 290 | Illuminate the 'no's on their vacancy signs\ |
| 291 | If there's no one beside you\ |
| 292 | When your soul embarks\ |
| 293 | Then I'll follow you into the dark.'' |
| 294 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVdi6sizeY "Unity"]] by Music/{{Shinedown}} |
| 295 | --> ''Put your hands in the air if you hear me out there\ |
| 296 | I've been searching for you day and night\ |
| 297 | Shine a light in the dark, let me see where you are\ |
| 298 | 'Cause I'm not gonna leave you behind.\ |
| 299 | If I told you that you're not alone\ |
| 300 | And I showed you this is where you belong\ |
| 301 | Put your hands in the air\ |
| 302 | One more time.'' |
| 303 | * Music/{{Garbage}}: |
| 304 | ** The song "Beloved Freak" has "You're not alone" as a repeated lyric. What's really heartwarming is that it was the last song on the track, which the band typically reserves for their most depressing songs. |
| 305 | ** Similarly, their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I242tge6HII "Tell Me Where it Hurts"]]: |
| 306 | ---> ''Tell me where it hurts\ |
| 307 | And to hell with everybody else\ |
| 308 | All I care about is you, and that's the truth\ |
| 309 | They don't like me\ |
| 310 | Yeah, I can tell\ |
| 311 | But you do, so they can go to hell'' |
| 312 | * The Music/MarianasTrench song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ0z1LH6RJc "Beside You"]]: |
| 313 | --> ''And when your heart wears thin\ |
| 314 | I will hold you up\ |
| 315 | And I will hide you\ |
| 316 | If it gets too rough\ |
| 317 | I'll be right beside you'' |
| 318 | * Depending on what version you're hearing, the classic {{Christmas song|s}} "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" can send this message. |
| 319 | * Erutan's rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmbgCBZ86z4 "You're Not Alone"]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', mentioned below, adds lyrics to the song overlaying the scene that illustrate this trope. |
| 320 | --> ''When the storm draws nigh\ |
| 321 | Dreams will shatter before your eyes\ |
| 322 | Know that you're not alone\ |
| 323 | When the battle starts\ |
| 324 | I will comfort your restless heart\ |
| 325 | You'll know that you are home\ |
| 326 | \ |
| 327 | When your stars stop shining\ |
| 328 | Endless vines around you winding\ |
| 329 | Know that you're not alone\ |
| 330 | I will give my all\ |
| 331 | So your tears will no longer fall\ |
| 332 | Down, down on sorrow's stone'' |
| 333 | * This is echoed repeatedly in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7OHLjezTtY "The Gates"]] by Young Empires. |
| 334 | * ''Move Along'' by Music/TheAllAmericanRejects. |
| 335 | --> ''Hands are shaking cold\ |
| 336 | Your hands are mine to hold'' |
| 337 | * ''Flares'' by ''Music/TheScript'' |
| 338 | --> ''Did you see the sparks\ |
| 339 | Feel the hope\ |
| 340 | You are not alone\ |
| 341 | 'Cause someone's out there\ |
| 342 | Sending out flares'' |
| 343 | * ''Eye of the Storm'', by ''Music/KillswitchEngage''. |
| 344 | --> ''Through the eye\ |
| 345 | Of the storm\ |
| 346 | You are never alone\ |
| 347 | Even through the shadows\ |
| 348 | You are never alone'' |
| 349 | * Helene Fischer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_owGAWzIU "I'll Walk With You"]]. Includes the phrase "you're not alone". |
| 350 | * Dorothée: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-htq55yfkM "Des millions de copains"]] ("Millions of friends") starts with "You believe the world has abandoned you", and the refrain says that "you have millions of friends". Silvère had the idea for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYdML2ZZdqo a version about the Covid-19 pandemic]]. |
| 351 | * Music/CherLloyd's song "Oath" features these lines in the chorus: |
| 352 | --> ''Wherever you go, just always remember''\ |
| 353 | ''You're never alone, we're birds of a feather'' |
| 354 | * ''War'' by ''Music/PoetsOfTheFall'' |
| 355 | -> ''When I thought that I fought this war alone\ |
| 356 | You were there by my side on the front line\ |
| 357 | When I fought to beleive the impossible\ |
| 358 | You gave me a reason to try'' |
| 359 | * Music/{{Enya}} does this a **lot**. |
| 360 | ** At the end of "Book of Days": |
| 361 | --> ''This day ends together\ |
| 362 | Far and away'' |
| 363 | ** And at the end of "One By One": |
| 364 | --> ''No goodbyes\ |
| 365 | For love brightens their eyes\ |
| 366 | ...\ |
| 367 | And do you know why\ |
| 368 | There's a love that won't die?'' |
| 369 | ** Also, pretty much the entirety of "Solace". It's a short, simple song, just eight lines, but it will absolutely make your day. |
| 370 | --> ''What can I do to comfort you?\ |
| 371 | Don't hide away in solitude\ |
| 372 | What can I say to show the way?\ |
| 373 | Let tears become a soft rain\ |
| 374 | Why do you hide the loss inside?\ |
| 375 | The love you feel is in your eyes\ |
| 376 | Why do you go upon this road\ |
| 377 | When you could find your way home?'' |
| 378 | %% Yes, that's the entire song. |
| 379 | * Music/MiracleOfSound has a ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' -inspired song simply called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E "Friends"]] |
| 380 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpohKoixBXk Come on Home]] by Music/FreedomCall. |
| 381 | --> ''Coming home, come on home\ |
| 382 | Open up your mind, you'll never walk alone'' |
| 383 | * This is one of the major recurring themes of [[Music/AndrewWK Andrew W.K.'s]] work, to the point that his fifth studio album is titled "You're Not Alone" |
| 384 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bYgVEfAUo "Capital Kings - You'll Never Be Alone"]] |
| 385 | -->''I'm the street lights that guide you home\ |
| 386 | I'll be the G.P.S when you've lost your phone\ |
| 387 | I'll be the song that's rockin' in your headphones\ |
| 388 | I'll show you the signs\ |
| 389 | To let you know\ |
| 390 | You'll never be alone.'' |
| 391 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFbZ1jvq_U "Guide You Home"]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'' has this as its general theme, with the singer (popularly assumed by fans to be Cynder) being willing to die for their love (Spyro), go to any lengths to find them, and light a fire to help them find their way back home. It also fits with the theme of the game, as Cynder and Spyro are together constantly. |
| 392 | * Music/{{Creed|band}}'s "Wash Away Those Years" features this in the chorus: |
| 393 | --> ''I know this decadent is shared by millions\ |
| 394 | Remember you're not alone (x2)'' |
| 395 | * Music/ModernTalking's "You Are Not Alone", featuring Eric Singleton. |
| 396 | -->''If I took the time to put you in my rhyme\ |
| 397 | Let me tell you right there, you're a friend of mine\ |
| 398 | And I used to getting close if you catch me a time\ |
| 399 | We can do it like this with the twist of lime\ |
| 400 | Always on my mind, not the freak of the week\ |
| 401 | Take the words I speak, to every soul I reach\ |
| 402 | Hold tight with your touch on the microphone\ |
| 403 | As you're not just here, you are not alone!'' |
| 404 | |
| 405 | -->''You are not alone - I'll be there for you\ |
| 406 | You are not alone - anything I'll do\ |
| 407 | (You're not alone!)\ |
| 408 | You are not alone - you're the one for me\ |
| 409 | You are not alone - it's no tragedy\ |
| 410 | You are not alone - you're the one for me\ |
| 411 | You are not alone - nothing comes for free'' |
| 412 | * From the chorus of "Wherever You Are" by Music/{{Asia}}: |
| 413 | -->''Every time you think of home\ |
| 414 | Remember that you're not alone\ |
| 415 | And we'll be with you heart and soul wherever you are.'' |
| 416 | * Deconstructed in the ''Vocaloid'' song "Irony". The singer mentions that they know others have similar troubles too, but that they don't feel any better because others seem to deal with their issues more easily. |
| 417 | * Music/BrokenIris' song "We're Not Alone" is about the beauty in life. |
| 418 | * Music/{{Kiss}}' "We Are One" downright opens with this phrase. It's an homage to the fans, with the chorus ('Everywhere I go, everyone I seeAnd I see my face looking back at me') referencing how many of them copy the band's iconic facepaint. |
| 419 | * AJR's "It's On Us", a song written specifically for victims of sexual assault but which can be heartwarming for anyone who's gone through pain or trauma in their lives. |
| 420 | -->''Nobody knows what you're going through\ |
| 421 | So you just be you, and I'll be that, too\ |
| 422 | No one should know if you bleed red or blue\ |
| 423 | You just bleed you, and I'll sit with you'' |
| 424 | |
| 425 | -->''We can try together\ |
| 426 | Make it right together\ |
| 427 | We can fight together\ |
| 428 | It's on us'' |
| 429 | |
| 430 | -->''Though your trust is stolen\ |
| 431 | Though your heart is broken\ |
| 432 | You are never broken\ |
| 433 | It's on us\ |
| 434 | Know that it's on us'' |
| 435 | |
| 436 | -->''I wonder where, where your mind goes\ |
| 437 | Come out of the cold, we'll take the load\ |
| 438 | And if they hurt you with words so cruel\ |
| 439 | Here's what we'll do, we'll all fight for you'' |
| 440 | |
| 441 | * Vanessa Williams' "The Sweetest Days" is generally about being happy and in love, but is set against a frightening dropback where "outside the thunder rolls": |
| 442 | -->Listen now / you can hear my heart beat / warm against life's bitter cold |
| 443 | * Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence", where the narrator has grown cynical in a world full of corruption and betrayal, but finds solace in a moment of peace with a loved one: |
| 444 | -->''O' beautiful, for spacious skies\ |
| 445 | But now those skies are threatening...\ |
| 446 | I know a place where we can go\ |
| 447 | And wash away this sin'' |
| 448 | * Music/CyndiLauper's "True Colors": |
| 449 | -->''If this world makes you crazy\ |
| 450 | And you've taken all you can bear\ |
| 451 | You call me up\ |
| 452 | Because you know I'll be there'' |
| 453 | * Emeli Sandé's "My Kind of Love" is about someone who is not great at being fun in good times, but is excellent at being there for you in bad times: |
| 454 | --> ''When you never thought that it could ever get this tough\ |
| 455 | That's when you feel my kind of love'' |
| 456 | * {{Music/Pink}} - "Walk Me Home": |
| 457 | --> ''Say you'll stay with me tonight\ |
| 458 | Cause there is so much wrong going on outside'' |
| 459 | * {{Music/Ruelle}} and Fleurie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhXQ7nRm68U "Carry You"]] uses this to great effect: |
| 460 | --> ''You are not alone\ |
| 461 | I've been here the whole time, singing you a song\ |
| 462 | oooh oooh, ooooh,\ |
| 463 | I will carry you'' |
| 464 | * "Unbroken" from the Music/BattleBeast album ''No More Hollywood Endings''. |
| 465 | --> ''Your weeping heart is growing stronger\ |
| 466 | A soul full of dreams remains unbroken\ |
| 467 | You're not alone\ |
| 468 | You're not alone\ |
| 469 | I promise you\ |
| 470 | I've been there too'' |
| 471 | * The theme of ''Halo'' by {{Music/Starset}} is this. |
| 472 | -->''I can see you running, running\ |
| 473 | Every night from the same darkness\ |
| 474 | It's coming, coming\ |
| 475 | But you are not alone\ |
| 476 | If you just say the word\ |
| 477 | I'll be there by your side\ |
| 478 | You make me more\ |
| 479 | You make me superhuman\ |
| 480 | And if you need me to\ |
| 481 | I will save you'' |
| 482 | * In Music/{{Sia}}'s "Courage To Change": |
| 483 | -->''You're not alone in all this\ |
| 484 | You're not alone, I promise\ |
| 485 | Standing together we can do anything'' |
| 486 | * An odd example with Music/JonathanCoulton's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCUK1OeZGI I'm Your Moon]]," which is apparently about Charon comforting Pluto about its demotion from planet status. |
| 487 | -->''I keep telling you I don't care.\ |
| 488 | I keep saying there's one thing they can't change.\ |
| 489 | I'm your moon; you're my moon.\ |
| 490 | We go round and round.'' |
| 491 | * Music/InsaneClownPosse has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YBORWk09o Homies]]", which is about the people who will ''always'' have your back, and how they'll be there when you need them. |
| 492 | * Music/AngelOlsen's "If It's Alive, It Will." |
| 493 | --> ''I used to think I was the only one\ |
| 494 | I used to think I was the only one\ |
| 495 | But I've learned quite a few things since then\ |
| 496 | I've learned no one ever really is the only one'' |
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