
I'm Nobody [SSC8 Poetry Challenge]
[Intro - fast drums, power chords, no vocals] I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you โ Nobody โ too? [Verse 1 - fast, driving, clean lead vocal] I write in rooms that no one finds on scraps of sound, on borrowed time no stage, no name up on the wall just echoes falling down the hall I learned to live without the light that burns the ones who court the night they want the crowd, they want the roar I never knew what that was for [Pre-Chorus - tighter, vocals push forward] I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you โ Nobody โ too? Then there's a pair of us [Chorus - full band, gang vocals on last line] Don't tell! they'd advertise! How dreary โ to be โ Somebody! How public โ like a Frog โ To tell your name โ the livelong June โ To an admiring Bog! [Verse 2 - same energy, slightly more aggressive] The Bog is louder now, it's true it swallows names and spits them new a thousand frogs all croaking loud each one convinced it owns the crowd I watched them chase the light upstream and sell the wreckage of their dream I kept my voice, I kept it small and maybe that was worth it all [Bridge - half-time feel, bass prominent, no distortion] There's a cost to standing still when the world is buying noise I won't pretend it doesn't ache to choose the shadow over the blaze But I am nobody's headline nobody's trending sound just a name that sings in corners just a ghost above the ground [Pre-Chorus - building back up] I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you โ Nobody โ too? Then there's a pair of us [Chorus - biggest version, layered vocals] Don't tell! they'd advertise! How dreary โ to be โ Somebody! How public โ like a Frog โ To tell your name โ the livelong June โ To an admiring Bog! How dreary โ to be โ Somebody! How public โ like a Frog โ To an admiring Bog! [Outro - driving, repeat to fade, gang vocals] I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you โ Nobody โ too?

