walk alone

present singular third person walks alone · participle present walking alone · participle past walked alone · past walked alone

1. intransitiveliterallyTo walk without any companion.
2. figurativelyintransitiveTo do something without help from anyone else, to be unaided in one's task.

   I walk this lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. [I] don't know where it goes, but it's only me, and I walk alone.

   2004 September 21, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, in American Idiot, performed by Green Day

   Synonyms: go it alone

3. figurativelyintransitivepoeticTo be lonely, to desire social accompaniment.