Star Trek: The Space Opera
"Hollow Pursuits": Barclay, the Enterprise's resident wallflower, muses upon his loneliness to the tune of "On My Own."
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Barclay
And now I'm all alone again--
No were to go, no one to turn to.
I'll return to the holodeck
To play the hero as I'm want to,
So when my fright appears,
I will conceal myself in here
Sometimes I walk the decks at night
When everybody else is rustling;
I program my own friends then I
Feel like my life again is bustling.
They think that I'm a wreck--
I go back to the holodeck
On my own, alone in my rejection
All alone, I'm forced to introspection
Unable to express myself as fully
As somebody more confident and stronger than I could be
And then pain inside me keeps on growing
And my fear is all that I am showing
In these programs, I feel my comfort rising
I'm comfortable when I don't have to ever bother trying
And I know I don't belong out there
When I'm talking to the Riker that's in here
Socially, I know that I'm inept
But I ask . . .why can't they just accept--
I'm lonely
But when the program's ended
I'm alone
With no one new befriended
If given
A chance to change my path now
I don't know why, but I must try
If someone would show me how
I'm lonely
I'm learning that my dreaming
Has kept my
Starfleet career from gleaming
My insight’s
Saved this ship from destruction
A ship and crew that knows me now
And draws me to the light....
I'm lonely...
I'm lonely...
I'm lonely,
But no longer on my own
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All lyrics copyright 2000 Devon Apple and Dominick LaLicata.
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