Alone In My Room

Please join me in celebrating the great and massively underrated "Dwight Twilley Band", which at this point (1979) was essentially a studio-only project, recorded and mixed in a small Tulsa studio, as time and (personal) cash permitted, by Dwight on lead vocals, guitars, and keyboards, with Phil Seymour on harmony vocals, bass, and drums.

I fell in love with this song as soon as I heard it and I used to sing it myself, though not as well as Dwight. That would have been far too much to ask.

Before the lockdowns it meant something different, but the sting in the second verse has always been fantastic.

Enough of me. Listen to this!

Well since you left me I've been saying I'm OK
It's all behind now I'll be fine so go away
But that's not how it'll be
With the radio talkin' to me
Alone in my room

And I'll be alone in my room
And I won't look back if she comes back soon
But that's not how it'll seem
With a million hours to dream
Alone in my room

Baby
I just wanna let you know
That you can't hurt me no more
No more than I've been hurt before

Well since you left me I've been staying locked away
I'll get stoned and stay at home and fade away
But that's not how it'll be
With a nuclear war on TV
Alone in my room

And I'll be alone in my room
And I won't look back if she comes back soon
But that's not how it'll seem
With the radio talkin' at me
Alone in my room
All alone in my room
Alone in my room