Eric Carmen: All By Myself

Eric Carmen es un cantante, compositor, guitarrista y teclista estadounidense cuyo éxito más rotundo fue una balada pop bajo el título de "All By Myself". Esta canción está basada en una parte del segundo movimiento del Concierto para piano nº2 en C menor Opus 18 que el ruso Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff compuso en el año 1900, apareciendo conflictos por su uso sin el debido consentimiento de la sociedad que gestionaba sus derechos, aunque los derechos de autor ya habían caducado. A pesar de esos problemas, logró llevar al gran público una melodía clásica, situándola en los puestos más altos de las listas de éxito.

Romanticismo en su máxima expresión siendo traducida a varios idiomas, convirtiéndose en todo un símbolo pop de los años 70 que perdura hasta la actualidad, siendo muchos los artistas que la han versionado, desde Celine Dion, hasta Frank Sinatra, pasando por Sheryl Crown, o Mariah Carey.

Letra

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone
Living alone
I think of all the friends I've known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home
All by myself, don't want to be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to live
All by myself anymore
Hard to be sure
Sometimes I feel so insecure
And love so distant and obscure
Remains the cure
All by myself, don't want to be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to live
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to live
All by myself anymore
When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone
All by myself, don't want to be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to live
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't want to live
All by myself anymore