Song
Cuando Nadie Me Ve
- Duration
- 3 min 16 sec
- Genre
- PopAdult Contemporary
- Language
- Spanish
- Album
- Included in the release "Cuando Nadie Me Ve"
Song notes
Of the three songs we've made together, this is the one that gave me the most pause. It isn't about a pretty emotion. It's written from inside anxiety, the kind that sits down next to you and talks so quietly you end up agreeing with it. Putting music to something like that without wrecking it was most of the job.
That's why I produced it almost in the dark: a pulse ticking like a clock or a racing heart, Gemma's voice up close, and little else. A big arrangement would have sounded like playing it down. I wanted the tremble to be heard when it's there, and the silences when they come. I wanted the song to breathe at the same broken rhythm as the person singing it.
And there's something in the lyric I think should be said louder: it doesn't ask to be fixed. It dodges the usual everything's going to be fine and stays with something quieter, still being here even when no one can see you. The only victory it allows itself is breathing again the next day, and it frames that as a small act of standing up. It felt important not to dress that up. Just to hold it and let it be heard.
That's why I produced it almost in the dark: a pulse ticking like a clock or a racing heart, Gemma's voice up close, and little else. A big arrangement would have sounded like playing it down. I wanted the tremble to be heard when it's there, and the silences when they come. I wanted the song to breathe at the same broken rhythm as the person singing it.
And there's something in the lyric I think should be said louder: it doesn't ask to be fixed. It dodges the usual everything's going to be fine and stays with something quieter, still being here even when no one can see you. The only victory it allows itself is breathing again the next day, and it frames that as a small act of standing up. It felt important not to dress that up. Just to hold it and let it be heard.
Lyrics
Tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan
Tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan
Hay días que no salgo
No por floja, por temor
El mundo pesa más que nunca
Y mi cuerpo dice "no"
Me miro en el espejo
Y no sé quién soy
La ansiedad me habla bajito
Y siempre tiene razón
Me encierro en pensamientos
Que no me dejan dormir
Quiero gritar auxilio
Pero nadie me va a oír
Cuando nadie me ve
Me rompo en silencio
Me abrazo al vacío
Y me escondo del tiempo
Pero sigo aquí
Aunque no lo parezca
Y si mañana respiro
Será mi pequeña protesta
Me invento mil excusas
Para no contestar
El miedo me aprieta el pecho
Y no me deja hablar
No es tristeza, no es enojo
Es algo más sutil
Es vivir con un enemigo
Que duerme junto a mí
Me encierro en pensamientos
Que no me dejan dormir
Quiero gritar auxilio
Pero nadie me va a oír
Cuando nadie me ve
Me rompo en silencio
Me abrazo al vacío
Y me escondo del tiempo
Pero sigo aquí
Aunque no lo parezca
Y si mañana respiro
Será mi pequeña protesta
No quiero que me entiendan
Solo que no me juzguen
No quiero que me salven
Solo que me escuchen
Cuando nadie me ve
Me rompo en silencio
Pero sigo aquí
Aunque no lo parezca
Y si mañana respiro
Será mi pequeña protesta
Credits
- Main artist:
- Gemma Isasi , Phoenix Vega
- Composed by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona , Maria Gemma Isasi Cuesta
- Lyrics by:
- Maria Gemma Isasi Cuesta
- Produced by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
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