written by Warren Zevon 1989 Zevon Music BMI. I want to live alone in the desert. I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe. I want to live on the Upper East Side. And never go down in the street. Splendid Isolation. I don't need no one. Splendid Isolation. Michael Jackson in Disneyland. Don't have to share it with nobody else. Lock the gates Goofy take my hand. And lead me through the World of Self. Splendid Isolation. I don't need no one. Splendid Isolation. Don't want to wake up with no one beside me. Don't want to take up with nobody new. Don't want nobody coming by without calling first. Don't want nothing to do with you. I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows. Lying down in the dark to dream. I don't want to see their faces. I don't want to hear them scream. Splendid Isolation. I don't need no one. Splendid Isolation. Splendid Isolation. I don't need no one. Splendid Isolation.