Go It Alone
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit Lyrics

Are you lonely tonight?
Asking if the listener is feeling lonely in their present moment.

Are you out on the road?
Querying if the listener is away from home on a journey.

I'm headed home to go it alone again.
The singer is going home, accepting loneliness as their fate.

Are you dreaming out loud?
Is the listener expressing their hopes and aspirations vocally?

Scared of the crowds?
Does the listener fear large groups of people?

I'm headed home to go it alone again.
The singer is once again choosing solitude over companionship.

It's realizing just how close you've come to death.
The singer is realizing how close they have been to danger or death.

and rearranging accordingly.
Making necessary changes after a realization of how close to harm one has come.

I'm realizing what I've lost and what I've left
The artist is aware of what they have lost and abandoned in their journey.

and taking it home to go it alone again.
The artist is using the realization of their past to go it alone once more.

Find me a place
The singer is requesting a location.

With salt on the roads
Preferably a location where salt is used to de-ice roads in winter.

I'll do what I'm told, and buy what I'm sold again.
The singer will submit to authority and follow the status quo.

She was enough
The singer had a person in their life who they thought was enough for them.

but that was never enough.
However, that person did not fill the singer's need for companionship.

The wound that won't heal
An emotional injury that will never be fully resolved.

is pain I can't feel again.
The artist is unable or unwilling to revisit the pain caused by that injury.

In real life these things don't happen much at all.
The singer acknowledges that some things are unlikely to happen in reality.

Too bad we all live the dream.
Unfortunately, we tend to put too much faith in false hopes.

I'm realizing just how far I had to fall
The artist has accepted the extent of how much they have fallen in life.

and taking it home to go it alone again.
Using that realization to continue living in solitude.

I'm taking it home to go it alone again.
Reiterating their decision to live in solitude.

Taking it home to go it alone again.
A repetition of the singer's choice to go home and live alone.