A nice ambiguity in the first line. Are they saying "we are altogether alone", i.e. we are all hopelessly alienated, or "we are all together, alone", i.e. our very sense of alienation gives us something in common?
The song comes across to me as the cry of a desperate idealist. She can see what she's up against, but she still wants to try to make the world better, no matter how hopeless it seems.
A nice ambiguity in the first line. Are they saying "we are altogether alone", i.e. we are all hopelessly alienated, or "we are all together, alone", i.e. our very sense of alienation gives us something in common?
The song comes across to me as the cry of a desperate idealist. She can see what she's up against, but she still wants to try to make the world better, no matter how hopeless it seems.
My favourite song of theirs.