Seen

I know your dog is getting older

I know the café where you write

I know you dyed your kitchen green

And cried at half past two last night

I know the holiday you cancelled

The book you swore you'd finally read

I know the songs you're posting lately

But I don't know what keeps you awake

We're all standing in illuminated windows

Looking out

I've never felt so seen

I've never felt so unknown

Everybody knows my face

Nobody knows when I'm alone

There's a thousand fingerprints

Pressed against my telephone

I've never felt so seen

I've never felt so unknown

You watched me turn another birthday

You watched me move from town to town

You watched me smile beside a stranger

Six months after we'd broken down

And every day we trade reflections

Like we're collecting proof we're here

But sometimes all the noise around us

Makes a quiet room disappear

We're all broadcasting from our bedrooms

To the dark

I've never felt so seen

I've never felt so unknown

Everybody knows my face

Nobody knows when I'm alone

There's a thousand fingerprints

Pressed against my telephone

I've never felt so seen

I've never felt so unknown

Maybe that's why midnight conversations

Still feel like treasure now

When somebody asks a second question

And waits around

When somebody learns the shape of your silence

Instead of your profile

I've never felt so seen

I've never felt so unknown

Maybe we're just photographs

Trying to become a home

So if you're out there in the glow

Listening on your own

I've never felt so seen

Until somebody called me

And stayed on the phone

Stayed on the phone...

Stayed on the phone...