Lonely Alone

I looked down the bar and said
I think I’d rather be dead than lonely
You cracked a smile so I asked if you wanted to dance
As the slow song played, you said
I’m just as afraid of being lonely
I thought I might have had half a chance

On the ride out to my place,
the look on your face was hopeful
That luck wouldn’t be the stranger it had always been
I turned the radio low, and said
Let’s take it slow, how about it?
You flashed that sweet smile of yours again

Even if the fire don’t light
Or burn so bright
Neither one of us has to be lonely alone tonight
Even if we don’t take flight
Or glide like a summer kite
Neither one of us has to be lonely alone tonight

Maybe in twenty years
if we set aside our fears of being lonely
We’ll find out we make just about the perfect pair
Though it’s true we might get to feeling blue
We’ll know it’s only
‘Cause remember all the loneliness we had to bear