THE LINES BETWEEN US ~An Unseen American - Part II~

THE LINES BETWEEN US
An Unseen American - Part II
by Twilight Master
the Novel: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/11054822662724564858

A blue university.
A red town.
A shirt that says DEMOCRACY,
made thousands of miles away.
An AMERICAN DREAM printed on a poster,
while someone works the night shift behind it.
Social media turns anger into data.
Markets turn expectations into prices.
Corporations turn time into cost.
And politics?
Sometimes it simply turns people
into us and them.
Convenient.
Because once everything becomes a number,
you don't have to look into anyone's eyes.
But Mateo is starting to look.
At the university.
At the town.
At Wall Street.
At immigrants.
At workers.
At algorithms.
At the people behind the numbers.
And he begins to wonder:
Who drew the line?
Who does it serve?
And who gets left behind
when everyone is busy choosing a side?
"The Man They Never See" was about
the man nobody noticed.
"The Lines Between Us" is about
the invisible borders between all of us.
Blue and red.
Rich and poor.
American and immigrant.
Data and human.
Dream and price.
This isn't a song about choosing a side.
It's a song about looking across the line
and realizing-
there is still a person standing there.
Rain falls on both sides.
The highway keeps moving.
America keeps running.
And somewhere between the blue
and somewhere between the red,
an unseen American
is finally beginning to see the country
that never saw him.