POP SONG SUBMISSION: Matthew Dylan Rose

Song Title: Nothing Unseen

Lyrics:

Someone is sitting
Alone on the windowsill
Hiding her eyes with her hair.
Smiling wide for the camera
But no one is there.

No one has pulled
The excitable windowshade
Into its usual place.
Isn’t it frightening
Thinking what shows on your face?

But when the moon is puddle-gray
And someone looks across the way
And sees what you don’t wanna show,
Well, what then?
And when you stand among the lights
And someone has you dead to rights
And knows something you don’t know,
Well, what then?

That puzzling persistence,
The path of least resistance,
That someone in the distance,
A picture on a screen –
Nothing unseen.

Someone is cutting
The cake with a butter knife
After the party has gone.
Maybe it only looks warm
‘Cause the lights are turned on.

Nobody’s watching
Her silhouette changing
In phases of shadowy black.
Isn’t it something –
The beauty that most of us lack?

But when the night is navy blue,
And you got nothing else to do,
Will you move your hair aside,
What then?
When you’re alone without a friend,
Will you lay down and play pretend?
Do you really wanna hide?
What then?

That maddening persistence,
The path of least resistance,
That someone in the distance,
The glamor magazine –
Nothing unseen.

Da da da da da da da,
Da da da da da da da,
Da da da da da da da,
Da da da da da da da,
Nothing unseen.