Janis Ian Societys Child Lyrics

Societys Child Lyrics

SOCIETY'S CHILD
JANIS IAN

Come to my door, baby,
Face 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 anymore.
Walk me down to school,
baby,
Everybody's acting deaf and dumb.
Until they turn and say, "Why
don't you stick to your own kind."
My teachers all laugh, the smirking
stares,
Cutting deep down in our affairs.
Preachers of equality,
Think
they believe it, then why won't they just let us be?
They say I can't see you
anymore baby,
Can't see you anymore.
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 anymore baby,
Can't see you anymore.
No, I don't want to see you
anymore, baby.