KIMIKO TORA - Alone Online (Official Video) | Alternative Rock Ballad

🖤 Ghost Protocol - out now on all platforms 🖤 From KIMIKO TORA's album Ghost Protocol — atmospheric alternative metal, and one quiet piano ballad in the middle of it. The album has been loud. Screaming to be seen, being erased, breaking apart. This one is what happens after everyone's gone to bed. No walls of guitar. Just a piano, and a phone, and 3 AM. Alone Online is about the specific loneliness of being surrounded by everyone you've ever known and still feeling invisible. Scrolling through a thousand people and not being able to message a single one. Not because they left. Because they just stopped seeing you the same, and you can't prove it, and you can't say it out loud, so you refresh instead. The line I can't get past: "I built a shrine out of screenshots of the days when I still felt real. And I watch them like a stranger now, like they happened to somebody else." That's what the phone does at 3 AM. Turns your own life into someone else's story. And then the bridge, which is the most honest thing on the whole album: I would trade every message I ever got for one person to look at me and see. Not the version I edited. Not the version I made pretty. Just me. If you've ever been alone in a room full of everyone, at 3 AM, with the loudest thing in the world being your phone — you already know this one. Thank you for still being here. KIMIKO TORA 🎧 Stream Ghost Protocol: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1UjF6... Lyrics: [Verse 1] It's three o'clock and the room is blue And the light on my ceiling is spinning slow I'm scrolling through pictures of who we were And I don't recognize the girl I used to know I made a coffee I'll never drink I said goodnight to an empty chair I typed your name and I deleted it Like I always do, like I always do [Pre-Chorus] And the whole world's asleep except for me And a thousand strangers scrolling in the dark And we're all just waiting for somebody To notice we've been broken from the start [Chorus] I'm alone online, I'm alone online In a room full of everyone I've ever known I'm alone online, I'm alone online And the loudest sound in the world is my phone I keep refreshing for something to feel I keep refreshing for someone to call I'm alone online, I'm alone online And I don't remember how to be at all [Verse 2] I made a list of everyone I miss And I couldn't send a message to a single name Because none of them are really gone They just stopped seeing me the same I built a shrine out of screenshots Of the days when I still felt real And I watch them like a stranger now Like they happened to somebody else [Pre-Chorus] And the whole world's asleep except for me And a thousand strangers scrolling in the dark And we're all just waiting for somebody To notice we've been broken from the start [Chorus] I'm alone online, I'm alone online In a room full of everyone I've ever known I'm alone online, I'm alone online And the loudest sound in the world is my phone I keep refreshing for something to feel I keep refreshing for someone to call I'm alone online, I'm alone online And I don't remember how to be at all [Bridge] I would trade every message I ever got For one person to look at me and see Not the version I edited Not the version I made pretty Not the version I made pretty Just me, just me, just me Just me Just me [Final Chorus] I'm alone online, I'm alone online In a room full of everyone I've ever known I'm alone online, I'm alone online And the loudest sound in the world is my phone I keep refreshing for something to feel I keep refreshing for someone to call I'm alone online, I'm alone online And I don't remember how to be at all [Outro] I'm alone online I'm alone online I'm alone online