Hello to all,
my favourite song is "Lonely men" performed by the Pooh, an italian very famous rock band. That song gives a very incisive message of encouragement to all the men who are single. First, it says that there are many and many men in the same condition, and that can be single for a large variety of reasons, because they seek working success, because they had bad experiences, because their mothers didn't let them free, and so on. Then it encourages them to try again, to try "to change this life before it changes us", "to learn about the women" and possibly "to change a bit for them". I think the Pooh are very good psychologists :-)

And that song has beautiful music, also. Here's a video of the song's first performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmbRNPDENiQ

This song is in Italian and the vast majority of you don't know that language, at most Spanish, French and Portuguese speakers can understand something. However, I'm reporting the full English translation, so that you can understand its profound meaning.

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You meet them where people travel and go to phone
With the aftershave that tastes of rain and the 24-hours suitcase
Lost in the evening newspapers
or in the coming and going of a waitress
But why every day, evening comes?

Sometimes a man is lonely
because he has strange torments in his mind
because he's afraid of sex
or he's craving for success
to write the romance he has inside
because life has already put him to the wall
or because in a false world, he's a real man

God of the cities, and of immensity
If it's true that you're there, and you've travelled more than us
Let's see if we can learn this life
or maybe change it a little, before it changes us
Let's see if we can make ourselves be loved as we are
without tormenting ourselves with neurosis and jealousies anymore
because this life knocks down, and who's knocked down
sleeps or dies, or makes love

There are men who are lonely for the thirst of adventure
because they studied to be priests
or because of twenty years in prison
because of mothers who have never weaned them
because of women who have refused and lost them
or just because they're different

God of the cities, and of immensity
If it's true that you're there, and you've travelled more than us
Let's see if we can learn these women
and maybe change a bit for them
maybe change them a bit for us
But God of the cities, and of immensity
We see that you're there, and that you don't have any problems
But down here we aren't in the sky
and if a man loses the thread
he's just a lonely man.

Ciao Giulio! Great insight and music. I hope God answers the prayer of men. However, He may have already answered. In most cases all you need is to take the step!

Keep well.

Solitary Man....Neil Diamond..

Divorcedone, your eyes are popping out. Hey, don't look too hard!


Have a great day!

I am sure you will get a kick , if I told ya why my eyes were pippin out... But this being a PG-13 site and you being young and all, I have to refrain....solitary man... Just so you don't get off topic?!?!?

Good lirics. A bit weepy. But good. Italian music doesn't get out much!

Am Sorry. I doubt I want to know, in that case.
Back to topic.... Deep song, Solitary Man. It resonates with the OP. They both answer many questions in my mind about men....

Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man, solitary man
(instrumental)
Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man

Mr Lonely, Bobby Vinton. I'm so lonely I could Cry, Bobby Vinton.

Is there any contest? The greatest guitarist of all time is Carlos Santana.

Oops, posted in wrong forum, sorry

"Only the lonely"- The Motels

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Ottis Redding,