Reminds me of my close friend from high school. He got shipped off to Vietnam a year later, and I wrote him several times over the two years he was there, and he told me no one else had written him but me. Not even his high school sweetheart who found someone else while he was gone, and fighting for his country. He finally made it home, too bad it was in a coffin with an American flag draped over it. He was killed week before he was to return to the states. I still think about him from time, to time, although it seems like another lifetime now. He was 19 years old.
I lowkey kinda hate it when people comment things like
"Lmao me on valentine's day" about this song. Yes, he's saying he's lonely but this song is really about him being drafted and feeling neglected by general society, not just his loved one. This song has so much more meaning to it than just the first verse, but unfortunately, that's the only verse some people are willing to listen to.
i played this a lot when i was in the army. Got sent to northen ireland and my girlfriend dumped me for going as she was catholic and didnt want me going to defend ireland against the catholic IRA.
She didnt have the guts to tell me to my face so gave me a letter and a little parcel and told me not to open them till i was on the plane. The letter was saying dont bother coming back as i dont want u anymore and the parcel had the engament ring in it i bought for her.
Worst thing u can do is dump someone like that going into a potentail combat zone.
A few months later she heard i got wounded in an IRA car bomb and she sent me a later saying shame u didnt die.
When she heard i got wounded again in the falklands war she wanted me back cause she felt sorry for me. I told her to go to hell lol.
Lyrics
Lonely
I’m Mr. Lonely
I have nobody
For my own
I’m so lonely
I’m Mr. Lonely
Wish I had someone
To call on the phone
Now I’m a soldier
A lonely soldier
Away from home
Through no wish of my own
That’s why I’m lonely
I’m Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home
Letters
Never a letter
I get no letters
In the mail
I’ve been forgotten
Yeah, forgotten
Oh how I wonder
How is it I failed?
Now I’m a soldier
A lonely soldier
Away from home
Through no wish of my own
That’s why I’m lonely
I’m Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home