Unspoken by Carl Noon

1989 in the living room
Family together, Sunday dinner soon
They’re chattering and holding onto cutlery
No one knows the fear that grows in me.

After dinner’s done, we watch a family video,
Holiday in Spain, at club El Rio
All that I can see is my awkwardness
Yearning to be free about this thing that I supress.

If I tell you, will you understand?
If I tell you, will you be ashamed?
If I tell you, will everything change?
Is it better unspoken?

Now we’re in the kitchen, just you and I
Doing the dishes, you talk about the seaside
All that I can think is I don’t want to lose this
Once the words are spoken they will always exist.

If I tell you, will you blame yourself?
Under the spell of what the papers sell
Will the world come crashing to an end?
Is it better unspoken?

If I tell you, will you understand?
If I tell you, will you be ashamed?
If I tell you, will everything change?
Is it better unspoken?

• Pop
• folk pop
• jazzy
• singer-songwriter
• soulful
• Dartmouth