From the recording Everything Else Was Noise
The Honest Side Of Lonely
“The Honest Side Of Lonely” is about choosing solitude when the noise of the world starts costing too much of your soul.
This song comes from the realization that being alone is not always the same thing as being lost. Sometimes loneliness has a cleaner, quieter truth inside it than the crowded places where people smile while hiding knives, sell the truth, or ask you to become smaller just so you can fit in.
At its heart, this song is about stepping away from greed, games, hollow praise, and polished lies in order to find something real again. It is not about hating people. It is about reaching a point where your spirit can no longer survive pretending.
“The Honest Side Of Lonely” is a song about the hard peace of walking away, hearing your own soul again, and discovering that being alone can sometimes be more honest than belonging where you have to lose yourself.
— Lane Alan Dumser
Lyrics
I’ve seen what greed does to a man
Turns his heart into an empty hand
Makes him smile while he hides the knife
And calls that way of livin’... life
Everywhere I turned, it was more the same
Everybody reachin’, playin’ games
I got tired of the noise and fakery
And what it was doin’ to me
There’s an honest side of lonely
Where a man can hear his soul
Far from all the hands that want him leaner
As the world keeps gettin’ meaner
Ain’t easy, but it’s cleaner
Than livin’ where the truth gets sold
Or livin’ where no truths get told
Yeah, I found out who I am
On the honest side of lonely
I took a road that the crowd passed by
Gravel and dust, a big open sky
Pine trees leanin’ in the wind
Like they never bowed to any man
Out here, I ain’t asked to pretend
I don’t have to bend
Just so I fit in
No polished lies, no hollow praise
Just a kind of truth that stays
Peace don’t live out in the crowd
Truth don’t need to holler loud
A soul can finally hear
When all that noise quits hangin’ near
I didn’t leave because I hated folks
I left because my spirit broke
And I’d rather walk this world alone
Than lose myself to just belong
There’s an honest side of lonely
Where a man can hear his soul
Far from all the hands that want him leaner
As the world keeps gettin’ meaner
Ain’t easy, but it’s cleaner
Than livin’ where the truth gets sold
Or livin’ where no truths get told
Yeah, I found out who I am
On the honest side of lonely