Splendid Isolation by Warren Zevon I want to live all alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe I want to live on the Upper East Side And never go down in the street Splendid isolation I don't need no one Splendid isolation Michael Jackson in Disneyland Don't have to share it with nobody else Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand And lead me through the world of self Splendid isolation I don't need no one Splendid isolation Don't want to wake up with no one beside me Don't want to take up with nobody new Don't want nobody coming by without calling first Don't want nothing to do with you I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows Lying down in the dark to dream I don't want to see their faces I don't want to hear them scream Splendid isolation I don't need no one Splendid isolation Splendid isolation I don't need no one Splendid isolation

"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear..." ~ George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist