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NOBODY IS BACKGROUND
pop-soul about strangers
About the song
Six-fifteen at the station: a thousand lives crossing, none of them extras.
"Each face you're looking past
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NOBODY IS BACKGROUND lyrics
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Verse 1
Six-fifteen, the station spills a thousand lives across the tiles. A woman holds a birthday card and counts the stops in little smiles. The man who mops beneath our feet hums four notes, soft and sweet, the ones his little girl asks for when thunder shakes the window.
Pre-chorus
We move like weather past each other, close enough to feel the rain. What if each passing shadow has a room that knows their name?
Chorus
Nobody is background, nobody's just passing through. Each face you're looking past has a life as loud as you. You can lose them in a number, you can blur them in a crowd, but nobody is background. Say your name out loud.
Verse 2
High above the evening road, all the windows look the same. Behind one, someone learns to walk; behind one, someone packs a case. One kitchen shakes with laughter, one bedroom holds its breath. From far away, it's just a block; up close, it's everything.
Pre-chorus
We move like weather past each other, close enough to feel the rain. What if each passing shadow has a room that knows their name?
Chorus
Nobody is background, nobody's just passing through. Each face you're looking past has a life as loud as you. You can lose them in a number, you can blur them in a crowd, but nobody is background. Say your name out loud.
Bridge
A little voice cries, "Papa!" and the whole market turns. Every language starts repeating the only word he knows. Then his father comes on running, drops his bags and lifts him high. Then the crowd becomes a thousand whole worlds moving on again.
Chorus
Nobody is background, nobody's just passing through. Each face you're looking past has a life as loud as you. You can lose them in a number, you can blur them in a crowd, but nobody is background. Say your name out loud.
Outro
Nobody is background.
Inside the recording
Six-fifteen, the station spills a thousand lives across the tiles.
We move like weather past each other, close enough to feel the rain.
Nobody is background.
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