by Nick Gisburne
When you’re sleeping in the sludge beneath a bridge
When you’re forced to make a home inside a hole
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
You’re the dirt beneath the shoe of someone’s soul
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
In the volatile events that left you here
In the tragedies that took your peace apart
There were choices, but you knew
There was nothing you could do
In a broken world that doesn’t have a heart
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
You beg, but as you sit
The pennies and the spit
The cracks through which you crawl
Remind you just how far a man can fall
What they see is just a self-destructive stain
Not the man who lost the wonder of his wife
You’re a secret out of sight
An illusion of the light
They could never comprehend you had a life
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
When tomorrow is a torment like today
When you find whatever happiness you can
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
When you know you’ll never be a better man
You were invisible
Before your dreams began
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno