Left Outside Alone is a song by American recording artist Anastacia from her third studio album, Anastacia. Written primarily by Anastacia as well as Dallas Austin, and Glen Ballard detailing the singer’s strained relationship with her estranged father. The song was released as the album’s lead single on March 15, 2004, to both critical and commercial success.
The song peaked at number one in Australia, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland; number two in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway; and number three in the United Kingdom and Hungary, while overall it became the sixth-biggest-selling European single of 2004.
In the United States, “Left Outside Alone” was another success on the Billboard dance charts, where it reached the top position on the Hot Dance Singles Sales, as well as number five on the Hot Dance Club Play. The track received universal acclaim, with praise coming from Anastacia’s new musical sound as well as her new singing sound found in the opening of the song being compared to Evanescence’s Amy Lee.
Music videos
Shot in Burbank, California in February 2004, the regular music video for “Left Outside Alone” directed by Bryan Barber.[6] There are actually three music videos for the song. The regular (and first) version was released to the worldwide market, excluding North America.
The regular version begins with Anastacia on a bridge. Later she is walking along a street with a red poster on an advertising pillar. The street is of European style with European cars (a Fiat 500 with a vehicle registration plates of France, a Smart Roadster, and a Citroën DS). Then she gets in a car, and whilst driving, she looks into a car next to her and sees “herself” canoodling passionately with a man. When she gets out of the car she notices people dancing to her song on the street.
The alternate version of this video, known as the “blue-poster version”, was made for the Jason Nevins Global Club Edit of the song, contains different edits, including the usage of a blue poster instead of the red one, and it also has a different ending.
In 2005, a completely new video was released for American audiences. Shot on May 19–20, 2005, this version was directed by David Lippman and Charles Mehling, and was shot in Los Angeles, California. Although this version was recorded specially for the American market, “Left Outside Alone” was never officially released there. In this version, Anastacia is in a castle lying alone in a bed surrounded by candles.
A different version of the track (entitled “Left Outside Alone, Part 2”) appears on the deluxe edition of Anastacia’s sixth studio album Resurrection. This version features an alternative melody for the same lyrics heard in the original song. She was quoted as saying: “Ten years later, I’m putting out an album and I wanted to revisit that song. I gave myself an opportunity to do that. I loved it and it’s a completely different perspective on the song.”
Left Outside Alone Lyrics (2004)
All my life I’ve been waiting
For you to bring a fairytale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It’s not okay, I don’t feel safe
I need to pray
I don’t feel safe
No, no, no, no
Left broken, empty and in despair
Wanna breathe, can’t find air
Thought you were sent from up above
But you and me, we never had love
So much more I have to say
Help me find a way
And I wonder if you know, how it really feels
To be left outside alone, when it’s cold out here
Well, maybe you should know, just how it feels
To be left outside alone
To be left outside alone
I tell you, all my life I’ve been waiting
For you to bring a fairytale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It’s not okay, I don’t feel safe
I need to pray
Why do you play me like a game?
Always someone else to blame
Careless, helpless little man
Someday you might understand
There’s not much more to say
Held me find a way
Still I wonder if you know, how it really feels
To be left outside alone, when it’s cold out here
Well, maybe you should know, just how it feels
To be left outside alone
To be left outside alone
I tell you, all my life I’ve been waiting
For you to bring a fairytale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It’s not okay, I don’t feel safe
I need to pray
Heavenly father
Heavenly father
Heavenly father
Save me (save me)
Save me (save me)
Save me (save me)
I wonder if you know, how it really feels
To be left outside alone, when it’s cold out here
Well, maybe you should know, just how it feels
To be left outside alone
To be left outside alone
I tell you, all my life I’ve been waiting
For you to bring a fairytale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It’s not okay, I don’t feel safe
I need to pray
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