Christina Perri - The Lonely Lyrics






2am; where do I begin
Crying off my face again
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed

I'm the ghost of a girl that I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well

Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again

Too afraid to go inside
For the pain of one more loveless night
Cause the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me till I fall asleep

I'm the ghost of a girl that I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well

Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again

Broken pieces of
A barely breathing story
Where there once was love
Now there's only me
And the lonely

Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again





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  1. T.... ....

    the hardest thing she send me. whenever im listening, i cry. i will always love her. we couldn't go on...i wish she would know.

  2. L.... ....

    Anybody else get the
    Whisper challenge with Barbie
    Ad?
    Cuz I did lol😏

  3. a.... r....

    The Joker

  4. Y.... ....

    I love your singing! You have an amazing, beautiful voice!!! :D

  5. P.... H....

    If you're the type of person who is scrolling down the comments and reading and thinking these all are fake,I don't know who you are.Do you even understand how these people are feeling?Their hurt.And you just made them even more hurt.

  6. R.... G....

    The loneliest I have ever felt was when I was in bed with my wife and she was cheating on me.

  7. R.... G....

    This is her best work, beautiful piano melody and solid clever lyrics, a beautiful story and it all makes for a great hit. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  8. F.... M....

    Guys think about it...
    She’s not really in an empty room, cause she’s inside it...
    What the hell🤯

  9. M.... H....

    Depress, sad or not.

    GROUP HUG🙆‍♀️
    💙💚💛💜❤🖤

  10. K.... C....

    What an amazing and deeply moving song.
    These words... Just wow.
    ""I’m the ghost of a girl
    That I want to be most
    I’m the shell of a girl
    That I used to know well…’"

  11. L.... T....

    You never get used to loneliness, you just stop feeling it.

  12. E.... S....

    Came here cause I missed listening to Christina Perri's songs ❤

  13. s.... a....

    I wish YouTube has another button to repeat again and again without me touching the repeat button.... Gosh what am I saying

  14. D.... ....

    I just came back, and this song has shot spark through me to write a story about wife in her late 30's who lost her husband to the clutches of death by the means of suicide. She had gone through Antidepressants, Therapy, and had forced herself into becoming Catholic (no offense to any) to forgive her sins in hopes for God to bring her happiness or some of her Husband Back into her lonely Grasp. One day she was sitting in the chair her husband Used to sit in drinking coffee and reading the Daily Newspaper. Something had caught her attention from across the street. A Lady wearing a Black men's coat, a black feathered hat that had a Dark grey net hanging over her face, and to mind you that this style was Rarely seen for over a century. She tried to keep herself from staring by driving attention to an Article on the Newspaper in bold lettering called "NEWYORK'S FAMOUS AUTHOR MELTDOWN" but the Lady's actions were to tempting not to question. She soon caved into the questions and actions she tried to suppress. Without another thought she got up and left her porch to go confront the Lady about the peculiar actions.

  15. A.... R....

    When music still born naturally

  16. S.... G....

    This songs deserves more recognition.

    S.... G....

    Yeah, I think so too

  17. T.... D....

    0:34

    I know you wanna replay

  18. P.... W....

    It devours me
    Whole from the inside out
    It is pitch dark black
    Voracious, merciless
    Better death, I plead for death
    Everything is lost
    Everyone is gone
    And hope is a snowflake
    On a hot red coal
    Life does not get better
    Don’t believe it
    It will not get better
    It is lonely in my heart
    I give up I’ve given up

  19. v.... g....

    My histori are this music the lonely is my best friend

  20. v.... g....

    My histori are this music

  21. V.... C....

    https://youtu.be/EMk05AXkZhI

  22. G.... S....

    Christina, your voice is so inspiring. Love it.

  23. i.... j....

    ik im a 2019 comment but sometimes i feel like im dying inside and sometime i just cry to myself and this song hit me so hard and the line that hit me so hard was*im a ghost of a girl that i want to be most*and i would tell people they hurt my feelings but they would laugh and there is sadness hiding behide my eyes but i just put a smile on my face so people won't feel pity for me one time i felt like killing myself and i wrote a note about killing myself but hid it but my mom found it and on top of that people in school hurts my feelings so bad but i just laugh so i won't look weak and friends that i thought was my real friends just turned out to be fake and they are the only ones i have and they ride my bus so i just put up with them into the end of the school year and i just care about what people say about me and sometimes i act like i don't but really do they spread rumors about me that just hurts me the most so the pain is real i just want this to all just come to a end and be all over with i just really want it to stop my mom took me to a lady in the church to help me and talk with me but i just don't feel like it helps my mom took me just can't really take like how can i explain it i hate when people call me slow and Ld and bold head i just hate it but when i leave this world i bet you'll feel bad when i die and feel bad from all the things you have said to me....

  24. D.... ....

    No words needed....

  25. R.... M....

    I do not have girl friend. This is good and bad at the same time that if you have a lover, this relationship will probably not be prolonged and if it lasts, it is a miracle.

  26. e.... 9....

    Please make a part 2!

  27. S.... C....

    sometimes I feel like to shut the whole world out and the worst part is I feel like wanna cry but it's like my tears are drained, I'm tired but I can't sleep

  28. M.... A....

    Dancing slowly in an empty room. 👣🪐

  29. J.... P....

    Life sucks because I've pretty much been depressed and suicidal for a long time...and my parents know, they just don't accept it. I learned to just accept that and keep quiet. Some time ago, they said we should all be careful and patient because my older sister is having problems and is a bit depressed (like some anger issues)....I don't know how to feel. I tried to express that I have my problems as well and they just told me to 'get a grip' and stop being selfish. I don't understand...

  30. K.... R....

    being bi is not easy

  31. B.... k....

    She's singing thd same words that are on screen.
    The happening at the same time she started singing are a billion to one.
    Totally amazing.

  32. L.... N....

    I just feel tired..and not interested in anything..I just don't want to care what happens..

  33. V.... W....

    “I’m a ghost of the girl that I want to be most” me too me too

  34. P.... S....

    When will i ever feel better? Its been years

  35. I.... !....

    this song gave me shivers because it just describes my life

  36. A.... ....

    I've listened to this song many times and i never saw this..... 2:15...... there is a mistake :ooooo (wills tay/will stay) :oooo

  37. C.... ....

    I feel like I'm in hell. My mood constantly changes so my attitude to life. Once I hate myself and then I feel special. Once I'm ambitious and feel like I could do anything, then I feel like I don't want to do anything. I sleep easily, other times I have trouble falling asleep because I'm constantly thinking. Sometimes I think about the future and it fills me with anxiety, other times I dwell on the past and sometimes I throw up when I think about these.. I am wondering about my life and what should I do, as well as what I should have done. I wouldn't mind being dead honestly. I feel like I'm misunderstood and also people don't even try to understand me. I'm never the first to anyone. When I say that I've been anxious my whole life, they don't ask why. PEOPLE NEVER ASK THE REASONS. They just say 'get over it. Change.'.. Funny to think that when I had high functioning depression I had things called 'willpower' 'motivation' and 'goals'. I don't have them anymore. My depression, my low self-esteem, my anxiety, as well as the bullying I experienced, also that my family never cared about my mental health.. being misunderstood.. being abandoned by people I loved, they replaced me with someone 'better and more interesting'.. I failed my own and others' expectations... these things destroyed my motivation. Everyday I am wishing.. I wish I was dead. (Just a confession by me..)

  38. e.... c....

    this song just makes me want to cry and i am kinda lonely in my class but atleast i have my friends that are in a different class one like is one friend for all the lonely people or comment to help people with depression we love you all gay straight lesbian pansexual bisexual we don't care this world needs more love bless all of you guys

  39. i.... ....

    Is something wrong with me? Im crying like hell listening to this song ☹️

  40. p.... l....

    ANYONE IN 2019?

  41. L.... v....

    Yo what's up sixth grade me? Finally stopped feeling bad for myself.

  42. j.... w....

    I really2 like this songss christinaa perry ! . Love a lots for youuuu

  43. p.... l....

    Really a stranger like her care more than my family or friends? sad but true

  44. S.... E....

    October 2019?

  45. b.... ....

    Depressed kids would understand this which is me im depressed.

    ;^,

  46. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  47. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  48. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  49. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  50. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  51. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  52. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  53. L.... ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OaZ5GSFkQ

  54. J.... L....

    I've never had a fake friend, just realised I never had one to begin with.

  55. b.... l....

    No one listens. I’m invisible. I’m no one. I’m a burden. I don’t know me. Who am I.. I’m broken.

  56. p.... m....

    Bye bye

  57. g.... p....

    I promised my self to be strong but I couldn’t. My heart hurts 💔

  58. a.... g....

    i have to show up to group with a song that describes how i feel. any good recommendations (anxiety based)

    a.... g....

    I'll make cereal by cavetown

  59. F.... L....

    I consider myself by not having any friends. Most of them almost all r fake, using me as long as they can take the benefit, my family isn't harmonious, feel more save living with strangers. I love myself with all the things I do alone and I am used to be all alone

  60. T.... B....

    Cool 🎶

  61. S.... S....

    this is my theme because i suffer with depression and anxiety and yet another night of crying my face off it can be a lullaby for my last night of living... *i will do it soon...*

    S.... S....

    Starlight Studios Are u gonna be an eagle who flies high and is truthful, bold and daring. Or a vulture who flies on others, or r u gonna be the worst, the turkey. Who has wings but can’t even fly? Choose who you will be. This is a choice, this is not forced on you. Only you can decide.
    God bless you.
    On my channel I have playlists of motivational songs, please, take a look. I beg of you.

    S.... S....

    Thank you so much I did not think there would be a single person who would care but clearly I was wrong ❤️

    S.... S....

    @Starlight Studios that doesn't mean no one cares , I care , I struggled with depression for 3 years but I'm better now , things will get better , I promise

    S.... S....

    Aww 🙃

  62. C.... A....

    Im afraid of living

  63. m.... I....

    have you ever looked in the mirror and *_hated_* what you saw?

  64. L.... H....

    Borderline Personality Disorder AKA BPD.. will make you feel completely alone.. even your demons that live in your head wont talk to you.

    L.... H....

    Lyndi Are u gonna be an eagle who flies high and is truthful, bold and daring. Or a vulture who flies on others, or r u gonna be the worst, the turkey. Who has wings but can’t even fly? Choose who you will be. This is a choice, this is not forced on you. Only you can decide.
    God bless you.

    L.... H....

    @GOLDENMORAL CINEMAS wha?

  65. r.... g....

    O maigo

  66. I.... ....

    Really liked the music and the video directing for this song was amazing.

  67. M.... R....

    im married..n have two kids..everyone thought that im happy..i love my kids,parents,husband,family but i felt that they r far away from me..my husband nver want to hear my heart,my feeling...all he know i have to take care of what wife should do..cook,take care of kids,clean the house..im suffered..i cant tell to my parents...im just crying inside..there is no place for me to tell what inside my heart..not even my own husband

    M.... R....

    I am so sorry you're going through such an awful time. I'm sending light and warm energy your way, and I hope you can find the courage to follow through with your convictions, to realize your potentials as an individual, and to free yourself from the inner subjugation which is shrouding your life. You are important and your feelings should be heard — I'm rooting for you deeply friend! Don't alienate your feelings as a way of life... facilitate your healing through vulnerability, self love, and through the pursuit of your innermost desires. Take care. <3

    M.... R....

    Mohd Are u gonna be an eagle who flies high and is truthful, bold and daring. Or a vulture who flies on others, or r u gonna be the worst, the turkey. Who has wings but can’t even fly? Choose who you will be. This is a choice, this is not forced on you. Only you can decide.
    God bless you.

  68. h.... s....

    I use to hear these songs back in 4th grade cuz I was depressed and now that I here this again it brought me soo many memories I started to cry

    h.... s....

    I thought I was over it

  69. O.... G....

    I don't know if I'm depressed. I keep thinking about the meaning of life ... And ... I keep helping everyone, even though they treat me badly ... God hope you will reward me someday ...

    O.... G....

    I'm sorry people treat you that way. Your kindness is appreciated, and it will be reciprocated one day, don't give up!

  70. �.... �....

    Sep 2019?

  71. B.... K....

    2 years ago this summed up my life.

    "I'm a ghost of a girl
    That I want to be most
    I'm the shell of a girl

    That I used to know well"
    Now... Im almost the girl I was prior to the experienced nightmare Someone found me.. He showed me the beautiful things in life again and was there when I needed someone the most.

    Then I was sorrowful. Now I can sing this sing on the top of my lungs, understanding the meaning but loving my new life. even though its still complicated :D
    I wish everyone the best who can relate to the song and is stuck in a desperate stage of life

  72. N.... S....

    Daydream is my friend

  73. �.... 5....

    2019?...:'(

    �.... 5....

    Мангл 567 Me :(

  74. s.... s....

    This song is so beautiful, I mean, look at the lyrics. It describes so many people's lives, and how they're having to deal with so much everyday.
    All of you out there, don't lose hope, things will get better soon.

  75. n.... m....

    Perfact

  76. M.... D....

    I’m the friend who’s just in the background. I don’t think my ‘friends’ would notice if I went.

    “I’m a shell of a girl that I used to know”
    Probably the most relatable line in the song.

  77. I.... P....

    This is a beautiful song, great art (audio visual) "the type writer" #classic This must be the soundtrack for a series or a Movie.

    We are free.
    2019 and here goes the first positive comment on this song.

  78. R.... C....

    Having both depression and anxiety is literally like living a slow death.;;;;;

  79. R.... ....

    someone from this year ? (2019) . this song is special (old but gold)

  80. T.... U....

    The comments section is just depressing

  81. R.... ....

    Would you harm somebody innocent like you?






    *Well, stop cutting yourself..*

    R.... ....

    Wow thanks for those inspirational words robloxgirl.

    You have literally just cured depression. Incredible. No one will ever know how you do it

    R.... ....

    @StevenT2002 laughed pretty hard at your sarcasm

  82. E.... ....

    Who sat here and was like this song is so good because it’s not

  83. s.... m....

    its 3am and im crying alone in my room

  84. D.... M....

    The part
    "Broken pieces of.. A barely breathing story.. Where there once was love.. Now there's only me.. And the lonely.."
    It's making me cry

  85. M.... Z....

    The worst feeling is when your family doesn't care about your existence... it's the worst...

  86. G.... M....

    If you have good friends, be grateful. it's worse to feel alone with no friends.

  87. K.... C....

    i cry everytime i listen to this :") so deep

  88. A.... V....

    I thought life would be easy if I have everything but damn its nothing when I'm not happy anymore, Nothing to find its meaning, been trying to understand its purpose but my mind still negating over and over

  89. h.... k....

    The loneliness doesnt wanna leave me. So I'll just embrace it

  90. F.... -....

    the comment section describes my current life and wow, the comment section is mostly filled with people with social anxiety 'cause same here

  91. L.... F....

    This song is exactly me

  92. J.... C....

    I remember being depressed and crying to this song, cutting myself. Went through a lot, but I'm finally happy and slowly starting a family. It gets better <3

    J.... C....

    I hope you get all the love you deserve.

  93. A.... P....

    My good taste in music brought me here

  94. W.... V....

    At least he is with me here in my dreams 🐼❤🐇

  95. W.... W....

    I have no story and it does not breathe.

  96. S.... N....

    Christina Perri is by far the most relatable singer with the most relatable, beautiful lyrics i have ever heard in my life. i wish she would have more songs more recently but since she hasn’t i hold onto what she does have close to my heart. i can relate to this song and all her others because i have a deep, lonely sort of depression and social anxiety. if you ever need to talk and need my help do not be afraid to reach out to me - my instagram is sophianille. and always remember, i’m here and i want to help because i’m going through it too and i know how you feel❤️❤️❤️

  97. K.... ....

    at least i still have me