Billie, I really enjoy your lyrics. They are very creative and well-written. You've got talent coming out your ears.
What bugs me about these particular lyrics is that they don't quite make sense. The singer overhears his/her significant other invite a secret lover over for a rendezvous at some future time "when nobody's home". Thereafter, the singer refers to him/herself as that "nobody". But if the singer actually won't be home when the rendezvous occurs, how can the singer be the nobody?
Wouldn't it make more sense if the singer actually was home, but his/her significant other didn't know it, and the singer overhears the significant other invite the secret lover in, stating, "Come on in ... Nobody's home"? Then it would make sense for the singer to refer to him/herself as the nobody. The song could focus on the fact the singer is being treated as a nobody. And if and when the singer leaves the relationship, the significant other will be left with nobody. Just a thought.
BTW, this reminds me of Sylvia's big hit in the 1980s called "Nobody", which used a similar play on words. In that song, it wasn't the singer but, instead, the secret lover who was called the nobody:
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