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“Song for Lonely Giants” is what it says it is, but it’s also about being very far away from everyone emotionally.

Track: “Song for Lonely Giants”
Album: Get Lonely (2006)

Much the same as In League with Dragons, there was an original idea for Get Lonely that does not totally match the final product. In League with Dragons was a fantasy story before it was a larger meditation on aging. It still is both things, but it’s also something about how those two meet. Get Lonely, similarly, was a story about literal monsters before it was a story about lonely people and the lonely things they do. One does not fully replace the other, and the version we have today is actually a mixing of the two ideas.

“Song for Lonely Giants” is from when this was about actual giants, though that’s really an oversimplification. The giant here is a stand-in for a way you feel when you feel too large to be cared for by others. So much of Get Lonely is about loneliness, true loneliness, not just a longing for a relationship or a romantic interest. This is a song about being so far removed that you see yourself as another species, and one possibly too different to relate to humanity. It’s an extreme kind of distance but it’s one that narrators feel all over the songs on Get Lonely. This one, however, has a whole connected poem if you want to learn more.