Post lyrics/links to songs that seem to express a sort of reclusiveness or hikikomori nature.

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

The most awesome Green Day with Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.
Cool video (esp in HQ) and great lyrics...

That's a good song.

I was going to post it a few days ago.

Of course:



And most of the albums and tracks from Korn ...
well it depends on how you interpret music.

Suicidal Tendencies - Alone (1990)

I scream at the sky, it's easier than crying
I'm shyest when I'm shouting out loud
I feel so alone in a room full of people
I'm loneliest when I'm in a crowd
I'm alone, and nobody hears me
Can't nobody heal me, won't somebody help me
I'm alone, I just need
Someone to take my hand and pick me up when I'm feeling down
Someone to take my heart and give it a home
Someone to be with me and help me through the times when I'm
down and lonely
Someone to be with me when I'm alone
I'm alone, all alone
Alone is the way I live, it's not the way I want it but you
know
You can't give in, alone is the way I feel, it's so hard to
understand
Why I've got to be alone

If you look in my heart you'd see it
I'm trying to be something better
If you look in my heart you'd feel it
I've got to keep moving on
If you look in my heart you'd know it
I'm just trying to make my world better
If you look in my heart you'd see it
I got to do it alone

I've been down, I've been down
I've been down, down, down so low
I've been lost, so lost with no place left to go
I've had emotions, emotions that you better hope you never
know
Sometimes it feels like I just can't take no more

If you look in my heart you'd see it
I'm trying to be something better
If you look in my heart you'd feel it
I've got to keep moving on
If you look in my heart you'd know it
I'm just trying to make my world better
If you look in my heart you'd see it
I got to do it alone

Seems like things just keep getting further out of hand
Why can't for once things just go as I plan
How dare you, how dare you tell me that you understand
Let me tell you straight out, there ain't nobody here that can
I'm all alone, I'm so alone, to be alone, just leave me alone

If you look in my heart you'll see it
If you look in my heart you'd feel it
If you look in my heart you'd know it
I'm not trying to make no one bitter
I'm just alone, leave me alone, alone alone, now leave me

I've lived in places that you wouldn't never ever want to be
Places where for a minute you couldn't ever stand to be
I've seen things, I've seen things you'd never want to see
SO what gives, what gives you the right to be the judge of me
I'm all alone, I'm so alone, to be alone, just leave me alone

A room full of people, can't nobody help me, I'm alone
I just need someone to take my hand and pick me up when I'm
Feeling down, when I'm down
Someone to take my heart and give it a home, when I'm down
Someone to be with me and help me through the times
I'm down and lonely, when I'm down
Someone to be with me when I'm alone
I'm alone, all alone
Alone is the way I live, it's not the way I want it but I
Know I can't give in
Alone is the way I feel, there ain't nothing quite as sad as
A person that's alone

of Montreal - Cato as a Pun
This is the only place I can find the song:
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Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

I think it has a beautiful lyric and psychedlic inclination and it describes the sensation of depression from being lonely well for me.

X Japan - Art of Life

All of the text is pretty much my feeling about life too.

People from down under may see the humor in this, but, hey, the lyrics are arguably about becoming a hikikomori!

Joy Division - Isolation

In fear every day, every evening
He calls her aloud from above
Carefully watched for a reason
Painstaking devotion and love

Surrendered to self preservation
From others who care for themselves
A blindness that touches perfection
But hurts just like anything else

Isolation, Isolation, Isolation

Mother, I tried, please believe me
I'm doing the best that I can
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through
I'm ashamed of the person I am

Isolation, Isolation, Isolation

But if you could just see the beauty
These things I could never describe
These pleasures a wayward distraction
This is my one broken prize

Isolation, Isolation, Isolation

Elliott Smith -- No Name #5

Got bitten fingernails and a head full of the past
And everybody's gone at last
A sweet, sweet smile that's fading fast
Because everybody's gone at last
And you don't get upset about it
No, not anymore
There's nothing wrong
That wasn't wrong before
Had a second alone with a chance let pass
And everybody's gone at last
Well, I hope you're not waiting
Waiting around for me
Because I'm not going anywhere
Obviously
Got a broken heart and your name on my cast
And everybody's gone at last
Everybody's gone at last

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life that you'd like to
So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me, I won't say no (how could I?)

Coyness is nice, but coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in life you'd like to
So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me, I won't say no (how could I?)

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

Ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me

Because if it's not love, then it's the bomb
That will bring us together

Nature is a language, can't you read?
Nature is a language, can't you read?

So ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me

Because if it's not love, then it's the bomb
That will bring us together...




I much prefer this to the album version.
I remember someone on this site referring to this song as a sort of "Hiki anthem"

Ask is my favourite Smiths song And so apt too, heh. Thanks for that

Oh-- it was you who called it a Hiki anthem, wasn't it?!

I don't think i actually said that, we had a little conversation going about it i recall... Not 100% when though!

Nice topic. Lots of parts in the Porcupine tree album 'Fear of a blank planet' are 'hikikomorish', especially the first four songs. I guess I'll pick one of them, the other songs are thematically similar.

Found my favorite of the four here, starts after 60 seconds: http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/5 ... 21644.html

My ashes:

All the things that I needed
I wasted my chances
I have found myself wanting

When a mother and father
Gave me their problems
I accepted them all

Nothing ever expected
I was rejected
But I came back for more

And my ashes drift beneath the silver sky
Where a boy rides on a bike and never smiles

And my ashes fall over all the things we've said
On a box of photographs under the bed

I will stay in my own world
Under the covers
I will feel safe inside

The kiss that will burn me
Cure me of dreaming
I was always returning

And my ashes find a way beyond the fog
And return to save the child that I forgot

And my ashes fade among the things unseen
And a dream plays in reverse on piano keys

And my ashes drop upon a park in Wales
Never-ending clouds of rain, and distant sails... distant sails

Hah, that's probably my favourite Porcupine Tree album and i'd never even made the connection before

Maybe reclusiveness has a sound (lyrics aside) that's portrayed through these kind of things? Who knows.

I'm surprised no one has posted Bad Apple!! yet. That has got to be one of the most hikikomorish songs I know. (Then again, almost all my sounds have no lyrics to begin with.)





NOTE: Yeah, it's a japenese song and I posted english translations. No one hurt me. -cower-

Yes! Awesome song by an awesome band. Joy Division = pure genius. I have one that could relate to the thread.

Disappear
Disappear
Higher
Higher
Into the air
Slowly disappear
No, no longer here

Disappear
Disappear
Thinner, thinner
Into the air

Never really here
What that never

Like a thought brushing up against a...sigh

Floating away
Floating away

Vanishing like a sigh and slowly
Disappear
Disappear
Vanish, vanish into the air
Slowly disappear
Never really here

Floating away
Floating away

Almost every Smiths song could be posted in here.

The vocalist pretty much was a hikikomori for a few years before starting the Smiths. Lots of their songs deal with isolation/shyness/loneliness.