All Alone

"All Alone" is calm, David Bowie-inspired music played in "Alone."

Lyrics
All alone Far from home The winds take the last leaves every blown When all you sought Was all for naught Float on brave and lonesome cosmonaut Clouds spray and break the day with thorough going grace hold still, oh daffodil You’re floating into space No planet circling No sun to set or rise Rise x3

A Word From the Composer
I wrote this a few days after the passing of David Bowie. I had been really down that week; I didn’t realize how bad I would be affected by his passing. My friend David J (from Bauhaus) wrote a song about Bowie that very next day and sent it to me and I realized how many of us were sharing in the exact same collective sorrow. I didn’t seek to write about Bowie (it was quite literally about Harvey and used outer space as a metaphor for solitude) but Bowie’s death happened to coincide with the post-production schedule for the episode “Alone.” After I finished it, I first shared it with a friend who said that it felt like a eulogy and that’s when I realized that’s exactly what it was. It was for David, but it was for me as well. It was cathartic.

I knew from the moment I saw the storyboards for Alone that this was going to be a special episode, along the lines of “A Day of No To-Do.” Carl Greenblatt was able to touch on something really special and I hope everyone appreciates the beauty of this little cartoon. -E

Trivia

 * This song is a tribute to late English singer David Bowie.