You Don't See Me - Al Jarreau

You don’t see me when I’m

Trying to do right

Maybe you can see me now

When I was walking

Patting my feet on the pavement

Really, truly trying to find a gig

Did you stand up and speak

Out in my favor?

Cold desperation

She’s a devil in bed

Scratching till my bones are bare

Pill and needles are all I’ve left to savor

We were walking and

I told you of how my shoes

Of how my shoes were wearing thin

You took your surplus and

Traded for a favor

Now I’m demented and I’m

Burned unto a cinder

Forty hours buys a grocery

Bag for trash

I took my pistol and I made

Myself a sinner

Will this universe be merciful at last?

You don’t see me

You don’t see me

I get so tired of trying to

Attract your attention

It has occurred to me that

You don’t see me

You should go ahead

I’m a-gonna-go-ahead

I know you’re going to ahead

You’re going to do what

You’re going to do

I know, see, I see you, I watch you

You take the money and run

You take groceries and run, too

Don’t leave nothing left for me

You’re running and hiding

And ducking and hiding

And running and hiding and

I can’t find you nowhere

I’ll beat your mama

I’ll beat your daddy

I’ll go to jail

It don’t make no mothafugging

Difference what happens to me

Going to be there in my

Own time, in my own way

Cause you don’t see me

You don’t see me

I’m, I’m in your mirror