Society's Child lyrics by Janis Ian
Come to my door, babyFace is clean and
shining black as night
My mother went to answer
You know that you
looked so fine
Now I could understand
your tears and your shame
She called you "boy"
instead of your name
When she wouldn't let you inside
When she turned and said
"But Honey, he's not our kind"
She says
I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
Walk me down to school, baby
Everybody's acting deaf and blind
until they turn and say
"Why don't you stick to your own kind"
My teachers all laugh,
their smirking stares
cutting deep down in my affairs
Preachers of equality
think they believe it
Then why won't they just let us be?
They say
I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
One of these days I'm gonna
stop my listening
Gonna raise my head up high
One of these days I'm gonna
raise up my glistening wings and fly
But that day will have
to wait for a while
Baby, I'm only society's child
When we're older things may change
But for now, this is
the way they must remain
I say
I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
No, I don't wanna see you
Oh, baby
