You Are Not Alone / Music

You Are Not Alone in Music.

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• Æther Realm: The Central Theme of "Guardian", which consists of the speaker telling the listener that he will be their guardian from loneliness and a hostile world.
  I will be your guardian from loneliness
  Feel my love surround you
  Share your burden, I will carry it
  A refuge all around you
  When sorrow overtakes you
  You can call on me
  Lay your troubles on me friend
  I'll be with you til the end
  I'll be your guardian
• "You're Not Alone" (original title: "Jeff") by Jacques Brel, popularized in English by the show Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
• "Magenta" by nano.
• Embrace - You're Not Alone among many, many others.
• Tokio Hotel - By Your Side
• "You're Not Alone" by Saosin.
• "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. 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, Automatic for the People, was infamously the last thing that Kurt Cobain listened to before he killed himself.
  If you feel like you're alone / No, no, no, you're not alone.
• Two songs, both named "You're Not Alone", from Final Fantasy IX
• You Are Not Alone by Eagles
• Mumford & Sons' Timshel ("And you are not alone in this / As brothers we'll stand and we'll hold your hand")
  • Although there's a partial subversion in the final line: "But I can't move the mountains for you."
• "Roll With the Changes" by REO Speedwagon.
• Parts of "We Are Young" by fun.:
  So if by the time the bar closes
  And you feel like falling down
  I'll carry you home tonight...
• Two Steps Behind by Def Leppard qualifies.
• You Find Out Who Your Friends Are is this trope in every way but the exact words. The video makes it even better.
• Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.
  I'm on your side / When times get rough...
• "Clumsy" by Our Lady Peace 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 "Right Behind You."
• "Never Too Late" by Three Days Grace:
  Even if I say It'll be alright
  Still I hear you say You want to end your life
  Now and again we try to just stay alive
  Maybe we'll turn it all around, 'cause it's not too late, it's never too late
• Rock and Roll Suicide by David Bowie 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!"
  • 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.
• "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)" by Josh Groban.
• Avril Lavigne's Keep Holding On. The whole song really, but the opening lines say it directly.
  You're not alone, together we stand
  I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand
  • 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:
  It's a damn cold night
  Trying to figure out this life
  Won't you take me by the hand?
  Take me somewhere new
• Roger & Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone".
  • 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.
  • And the Bootstrapped Theme of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.
  • This is also the Madison Scouts' corps anthem (invoked when current members and alumni use the acronym MYNWA, or May You Never Walk Alone).
• The chorus to Michelle Branch's "Everywhere".
  Cause you're everywhere to me
  And when I catch my breath, it's you I see
  You're everything I know that makes me believe
  I'm not alone.
• A Better Place, A Better Time by Streetlight Manifesto.
  I know that you think that you're on your own
  But just know that I'm here
  And I'll lead you home
  If you let me.
• Michael Jackson's / R.Kelly's "You Are Not Alone" is about being with someone in an emotional sense if not a physical one.
• (You Were) Never Alone by SAGA
• Nickelback brings us Never Gonna Be Alone
  You're never gonna be alone
  From this moment on.
  If you ever feel like letting go
  I won't let you fall.
• "By Your Side" by Tenth Avenue North.
  • 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.
• Savage Garden's "Crash and Burn."
  Let me be the one you call
  If you jump I'll break your fall
  Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
  If you need to fall apart
  I can mend a broken heart
  If you need to crash
  Then crash and burn, you're not alone
• A running theme of Brave Saint Saturn's music; the phrase "You are not alone" shows up in the liner notes of the first album.
  • A few years later, at the parent band Five Iron Frenzy'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."
• The song "Never Alone" from Fame. Beautiful and uplifting.
• Eminem's "Not Afraid". Just listen to the lyrics by the end!
  Everybody, everybody, come take my hand
  We'll walk this road together, through the storm
  Whatever weather
  Just lettin' you know
  You're not alone
• Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush (and a whole lot of other people who've done a cover of it since), originally from Peter's album So.
  Don't give up, 'cause you still have friends [...]
  When times get rough, you can fall back on us.
• Not Alone by Linkin Park. There's also "Shadow of the Day", "Heavy" (quite literally in the song's music video) and "One More Light".
• Lady Gaga's Dance in the Dark has this at parts of it.
  You will never fall apart
  Diana, you're still in our hearts
  Never let you fall apart
  Together we'll dance in the dark
• From the title track of the album "We Are The Others" by Delain
  If you feel mistreated, torn and cheated,
  You are not alone.
• Although a very dark version, this trope is featured in "Like You" by Evanescence
  You're not alone
  No matter what they told you
  You're not alone
  I'll be right beside you forevermore
• Kirby Krackle (Music): 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.
• 'Aftermath', by Adam Lambert is very much this trope.
• That's What Friends Are For
  Whoa, and then for the times when we're apart
  Well, then close your eyes and know
  These words are comin' from my heart
  And then if you can remember, oh
  Keep smiling, keep shining
  Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
  That's what friends are for
  In good times, in bad times
  I'll be on your side forever more
  Oh, that's what friends are for
• "I will Carry You" by Clay Aiken.
  >You should know now that you're not alone
  Take my heart and you will find, we will find, a way home
• Supertramp's Hide In Your Shell is a great example of this trope.
  If I can help you, if I can help you
  If I can help you, just let me know
• Splashdown had one in "I Understand."
• The line "Believe in me as I believe in you" from The Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight," already a generally uplifting song, can be interpreted as this.
• The Corrs song "At Your Side"
  I'll be at your side
  There's no need to worry
  Together, we'll survive
  Through the haste & hurry
• The voice within, by Christina Aguilera.
  Young girl, don’t cry
  I’ll be right here when your world starts to fall.
• Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me", from Toy Story:
  When the road looks rough ahead
  And you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed
  You just remember what your old pal said:
  Boy, you've got a friend in me.
• Paul McCartney's "Always Somebody Who Cares"
• Second album by Breaking Benjamin is titled "We Are Not Alone"
• "Not Alone" by Darren Criss, from A Very Potter Musical:
  Baby, you're not alone, 'cause you're here with me
  And nothing's ever gonna bring us down, 'cause nothing can keep me from loving you
  And you know it's true
  It don't matter what'll come to be
  Our love is all we need to make it through
• There are a lot of songs titled "Hitori Ja Nai" (which is the article title in Japanese) in JPop. With various flavors, too.
• Für Immer by the German band Unheilig:
  Weinst Du auch, wenn Deine Welt zerbricht? Weinst Du? Ich weine mit!
  Brauchst Du mich, wenn Du am Abgrund stehst? Springst Du? Ich halte Dich!
  Translates to:
  Do you cry when your world breaks apart? Do you cry? I cry with you!
  Do you need me when you're in front of the abyss? Do you jump? I hold you!
• "Valkyrie Missile" by Angels & Airwaves.
  If you're here and you're all alone tonight
  Then I'll give you a free ride
  Take a chance 'cause I know you want to
  If only you'll hold on, just hold on
  I'm here and I'm with you
  I'm here too, I feel you
  We'll get through
  I know this, I've seen it
  A hundred times, a thousand times
  Just one more time with you and I
  I'll pull you close...
  And then we'll say goodbye.
• "Carolyn" by Black Veil Brides
  You're not alone
  And we'll brave this storm.
• "Stranger Things Have Happened" by Foo Fighters.
• Dare ka ga Kimi wo Aishiteru by Takayuki Miyauchi.
  Dare ka ga kimi wo, aishiteru
  Dare ka ga kimi wo, shinjiteru
  Dare ka ga kimi wo, motometeru
  Doko ka de, doko ka de
  Translates to:
  Somebody out there loves you
  Somebody out there believes in you
  Somebody out there is looking for you
  Somewhere, somewhere
• Skillet:
  • "Whispers in the Dark" by Skillet:
  No, you'll never be alone
  When darkness comes
  I'll light the night with stars
  Hear my whispers in the dark
  No, you'll never be alone
  When darkness comes
  You know I'm never far
  Hear my whispers in the dark
  • 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:
    It's getting harder to stay awake
    And my strength is fading fast
    You breathe into me at last

  And

  When my faith is getting weak
  And I feel like giving in
  You breathe into me again

  • This theme is repeated in "The Last Night", wherein the singer is speaking to a girl suffering from depression.
  This is the last night you'll spend alone
  Look me in the eyes so I know you know
  I'm everywhere you want me to be
• "Message in a Bottle" by The Police 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...
  Woke up this morning, don't believe what I saw:
  Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore.
  Seems I'm not alone in being alone,
  Hundred billion castaways looking for a home.
  • 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.
• "Run With Us" by Lisa Lougheed, the theme song for The Raccoons.
  If a desperate love,
  Keeps on driving you wrong,
  Don't be afraid,
  You're not alone.
• "Yubiwa" by Maaya Sakamoto, which was used for the Big Damn Movie of The Vision of Escaflowne;
  • Lyrics found here.
• Lady Antebellum and Jim Brickman give us Never Alone
  When hard times have found you
  And your fears surround you
  Wrap my love around you
  You're never alone
• "I'll Stand By You" from Pretenders
  When the night falls on you
  You don't know what to do
  Nothing you confess
  Could make me love you less
  I'll stand by you
• "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers.
• "Your Heart Will Lead You Home" by Kenny Loggins, used for The Tigger Movie.
• My Dearest; by Supercell, used as the opening for the Guilty Crown Anime, the song is about someone who realizes they are not alone and then does everything they can for that person, lyrics found here.
• Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms" as the name would suggest;
  Through these fields of destruction, baptism of fire
  I've witnessed your suffering as the battles raged higher
  And though they did hurt me so bad, in the fear and alarm
  You did not desert me, my brothers in arms
• Pink Floyd's "Outside The Wall" at the end of the extremely dark album The Wall, where the titular wall represents the emotional barrier many have built sealing themselves off from the world.
  All alone, or in twos,
  The ones who really love you
  Walk up and down outside the wall.
  Some hand in hand,
  some gathered together in bands,
  the bleeding hearts and the artists make their stand.
  And when they've given you their all,
  some stagger and fall after all, it's not easy.
  Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall.
  • From their earlier album Animals, 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.
  • The message of "Brain Damage," from The Dark Side of the Moon, can be boiled down to this.
  And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
  And if there is no room upon the hill
  And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
  I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
• Seal's "Don't Cry", whose chorus says it best:
  Don't cry, you're not alone.
  Don't cry tonight, my baby.
  Don't cry, you'll always be loved.
  Don't cry tonight, my baby.
• "Not Alone" by All That Remains. 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.)
  I'm not alone
  With the touch of your hand
  I am whole again
• Brandon Heath's "It's No Good To Be Alone"
• Pearl Jam's "Present Tense":
  You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets, oh
  Or you can come to terms and realize
  You're the only one who can't forgive yourself, oh
  Makes much more sense, to live in the present tense
• Nickelback:
  • "Lullaby" by 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.
  • "Somebody for Me", as well, though the sentiment is more romantic than most examples.
• Second Person's "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.
• 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.
  She screams "oh"
  I've had enough please make this go
  The sea is rough and I'm drowning slow
  The mind-numbing pain has her lost in the undertow
  But braves her storm
  You're not alone
• "Not Alone" by Red. Pretty much the same sort of thing as many of the songs already here.
• "The Unwinding Cable Car" and "Hello Alone" by Anberlin. The latter is an aversion until the last line of the song, though.
• Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into The Dark":
  If Heaven and Hell decide
  They both are satisfied
  Illuminate the 'no's on their vacancy signs
  If there's no one beside you
  When your soul embarks
  Then I'll follow you into the dark.
• "Unity" by Shinedown
  Put your hands in the air if you hear me out there
  I've been searching for you day and night
  Shine a light in the dark, let me see where you are
  'Cause I'm not gonna leave you behind.
  If I told you that you're not alone
  And I showed you this is where you belong
  Put your hands in the air
  One more time.
• Garbage:
  • 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.
  • Similarly, their song "Tell Me Where it Hurts":
    Tell me where it hurts
    And to hell with everybody else
    All I care about is you, and that's the truth
    They don't like me
    Yeah, I can tell
    But you do, so they can go to hell
• The Marianas Trench song "Beside You":
  And when your heart wears thin
  I will hold you up
  And I will hide you
  If it gets too rough
  I'll be right beside you
• Depending on what version you're hearing, the classic Christmas song "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" can send this message.
• Erutan's rendition of "You're Not Alone" from Final Fantasy IX, mentioned below, adds lyrics to the song overlaying the scene that illustrate this trope.
  When the storm draws nigh
  Dreams will shatter before your eyes
  Know that you're not alone
  When the battle starts
  I will comfort your restless heart
  You'll know that you are home
  
  When your stars stop shining
  Endless vines around you winding
  Know that you're not alone
  I will give my all
  So your tears will no longer fall
  Down, down on sorrow's stone
• This is echoed repeatedly in "The Gates" by Young Empires.
• Move Along by The All-American Rejects.
  Hands are shaking cold
  Your hands are mine to hold
• Flares by The Script
  Did you see the sparks
  Feel the hope
  You are not alone
  'Cause someone's out there
  Sending out flares
• Eye of the Storm, by Killswitch Engage.
  Through the eye
  Of the storm
  You are never alone
  Even through the shadows
  You are never alone
• Helene Fischer: "I'll Walk With You". Includes the phrase "you're not alone".
• Dorothée: "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 a version about the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Cher Lloyd's song "Oath" features these lines in the chorus:
  Wherever you go, just always remember
  You're never alone, we're birds of a feather
• War by Poets of the Fall

When I thought that I fought this war alone
You were there by my side on the front line
When I fought to beleive the impossible
You gave me a reason to try

• Enya does this a **lot**.
  • At the end of "Book of Days":
  This day ends together
  Far and away
  • And at the end of "One By One":
  No goodbyes
  For love brightens their eyes
  ...
  And do you know why
  There's a love that won't die?
  • Also, pretty much the entirety of "Solace". It's a short, simple song, just eight lines, but it will absolutely make your day.
  What can I do to comfort you?
  Don't hide away in solitude
  What can I say to show the way?
  Let tears become a soft rain
  Why do you hide the loss inside?
  The love you feel is in your eyes
  Why do you go upon this road
  When you could find your way home?
• Miracle of Sound has a Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) -inspired song simply called "Friends"
• Come on Home by Freedom Call.
  Coming home, come on home
  Open up your mind, you'll never walk alone
• This is one of the major recurring themes of Andrew W.K.'s work, to the point that his fifth studio album is titled "You're Not Alone"
• "Capital Kings - You'll Never Be Alone"
  I'm the street lights that guide you home
  I'll be the G.P.S when you've lost your phone
  I'll be the song that's rockin' in your headphones
  I'll show you the signs
  To let you know
  You'll never be alone.
• "Guide You Home" from The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon 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.
• Creed's "Wash Away Those Years" features this in the chorus:
  I know this decadent is shared by millions
  Remember you're not alone (x2)
• Modern Talking's "You Are Not Alone", featuring Eric Singleton.
  If I took the time to put you in my rhyme
  Let me tell you right there, you're a friend of mine
  And I used to getting close if you catch me a time
  We can do it like this with the twist of lime
  Always on my mind, not the freak of the week
  Take the words I speak, to every soul I reach
  Hold tight with your touch on the microphone
  As you're not just here, you are not alone!

  You are not alone - I'll be there for you
  You are not alone - anything I'll do
  (You're not alone!)
  You are not alone - you're the one for me
  You are not alone - it's no tragedy
  You are not alone - you're the one for me
  You are not alone - nothing comes for free
• From the chorus of "Wherever You Are" by Asia:
  Every time you think of home
  Remember that you're not alone
  And we'll be with you heart and soul wherever you are.
• 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.
• Broken Iris' song "We're Not Alone" is about the beauty in life.
• KISS' "We Are One" downright opens with this phrase. It's an homage to the fans, with the chorus ('Everywhere I go, everyone I see\And I see my face looking back at me') referencing how many of them copy the band's iconic facepaint.
• 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.
  Nobody knows what you're going through
  So you just be you, and I'll be that, too
  No one should know if you bleed red or blue
  You just bleed you, and I'll sit with you

  We can try together
  Make it right together
  We can fight together
  It's on us

  Though your trust is stolen
  Though your heart is broken
  You are never broken
  It's on us
  Know that it's on us

  I wonder where, where your mind goes
  Come out of the cold, we'll take the load
  And if they hurt you with words so cruel
  Here's what we'll do, we'll all fight for you

• 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":
  Listen now / you can hear my heart beat / warm against life's bitter cold
• 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:
  O' beautiful, for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening...
  I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
• Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors":
  If this world makes you crazy
  And you've taken all you can bear
  You call me up
  Because you know I'll be there
• 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:
  When you never thought that it could ever get this tough
  That's when you feel my kind of love
• P!nk - "Walk Me Home":
  Say you'll stay with me tonight
  Cause there is so much wrong going on outside
• Ruelle and Fleurie's "Carry You" uses this to great effect:
  You are not alone
  I've been here the whole time, singing you a song
  oooh oooh, ooooh,
  I will carry you
• "Unbroken" from the Battle Beast album No More Hollywood Endings.
  Your weeping heart is growing stronger
  A soul full of dreams remains unbroken
  You're not alone
  You're not alone
  I promise you
  I've been there too
• The theme of Halo by Starset is this.
  I can see you running, running
  Every night from the same darkness
  It's coming, coming
  But you are not alone
  If you just say the word
  I'll be there by your side
  You make me more
  You make me superhuman
  And if you need me to
  I will save you
• In Sia's "Courage To Change":
  You're not alone in all this
  You're not alone, I promise
  Standing together we can do anything
• An odd example with Jonathan Coulton's "I'm Your Moon," which is apparently about Charon comforting Pluto about its demotion from planet status.
  I keep telling you I don't care.
  I keep saying there's one thing they can't change.
  I'm your moon; you're my moon.
  We go round and round.
• Insane Clown Posse has "Homies", which is about the people who will always have your back, and how they'll be there when you need them.
• Angel Olsen's "If It's Alive, It Will."
  I used to think I was the only one
  I used to think I was the only one
  But I've learned quite a few things since then
  I've learned no one ever really is the only one

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