Alone at Home

Jonathan Coulton

I am glad to be shopping here with you
I will sit on this chair til you're through
I will wait with your purse
I won't wander off and leave it
I am glad to be shopping here with you

And you know I'll be fine by myself because
I also am alone at home
I'm alone at home

I would love to swing by the candle store
I agree we can always do with more
You just get what you want
And we'll find someplace to keep it
I would love to swing by the candle store

And you know I'll make room for your shit because
I also am alone at home
I'm alone at home

No I don't want you to make it up to me
I just don't want anyone to see the way we are
when we're this way
Can we just not make this a thing

We can stop at your parents' on the way
We haven't seen them at all since yesterday
We can talk about plans
For your cousin's birthday party
We can stop at your parents' on the way

And you know I'll pretend to be nice because
I also am alone at home
I'm alone at home
I'm alone at home
I'm alone at home


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    I'm not sure whether the guy is actually out shopping with his wife, putting on a good face but secretly wishing he could be alone at home and not deal with it, or if it's actually about a lonely man who fantasizes about all the mundane stuff that comes with a relationship, he's so desperate NOT to be alone at home. The bridge seems to imply more toward the former, and that maybe the reason he is "alone at home" in his mind is out of embarassment and fear of being seen as a "weak" husband, following his wife around on errands.

    knightwriteron August 31, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation

    The singer is complaining to the audience, but not to his wife, about all the boring stuff he has to do in order to make her happy.

    This is very selfish of him, since that's how God makes marriage: If you're not going to become a religious or priest, you get married and the test that God gives is that you have to put up with the other person and do things for them to make them happy. There's rules to the whole thing, and it's not just about you. The purpose of life is to live in community, even if everyone else fails at it.

    Jonathan Coulter's songs are very interesting, but like everything else, what's going on in his own life (or that of his uncredited songwriters) comes through. Jon isn't married and has never been married. This song and "Shop Vac" are really just inane fantasies of his about how things work in the real world. Fiction in songs is just as useful as fiction in the real world.

    histmyston November 28, 2014   Link

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