When you’re pulled away from connection, the emptiness cannot be filled with distractions that try to protect the best memories. Remembering is a burden that freezes life. The time spent in the evening alone can be an opportunity for sadness and a time for melancholy reflection. The song Alienation by Morning Parade comforts the listener with an appealing image of childhood, making angels in the snow, which contrasts with powerful memories of regret.

The music of Alienation has an insistent beat that matches the chorus’s encouragement to “love a little more” and “live without regrets.” The lyrics insist that it is possible to distract oneself from the anguish of being alone in a world that doesn’t need you. While waiting for change, the song offers hope that one’s life is not set in stone: you’re not doomed to repeat the suffering that came unbidden.

Alienation is a song about distance and separation. It suggests one can escape the schizoid attitude that one doesn’t need anyone else. Rather than knowing that they have nothing to offer, the musicians explain that they might be a source of renewal. The song says that isolation is not an inescapable fate. One can save a few happy memories like playing in the snow as you search for a new way to relate to the world.

This song is the second track from the Morning Parade album “Pure Adulterated Joy” which was released in 2014.

The lyrics describe the tension between one’s world being destroyed and finding a new way to live. Loving more is a way out of despair over one’s past. Even though you are alienated from your past life, you’re in a galaxy full of possibilities. Once you can’t reach out to home anymore and you’re on your own, you can live without regret as you remember simple pleasures and construct a life worth living.