[00:18.50]Come to my door, baby
[00:22.78]Face is clean and shining black as night
[00:27.03]My mother went to answer
[00:29.61]You know that you looked so fine
[00:34.82]Now, I could understand your tears and your shame
[00:40.34]She called you 'Boy' instead of your name
[00:45.08]When she wouldn't let you inside
[00:49.63]When she turned and said, "But honey, he's not our kind"
[00:57.11]
[00:57.12]She says I can't see you any more, baby
[01:04.36]Can't see you anymore
[01:09.83]
[01:09.84]Walk me down to school, baby
[01:14.62]Everybody's acting deaf and blind
[01:18.88]Until they turn and say
[01:20.31]"Why don't you stick to your own kind?" “
[01:26.70]My teachers all laugh, they smirk and stare
[01:32.56]Cuttin' deep down in our affair
[01:37.02]Preachers of equality, think they believe it
[01:42.33]Then why won't they just let us be
[01:48.95]
[01:48.96]They say I can't see you anymore, baby
[01:56.22]Can't see you anymore
[02:01.41]
[02:01.42]One of these days I'm gonna stop my listenin
[02:05.34]Gonna raise my head up high
[02:10.81]One of these days I'm gonna raise
[02:12.98]My glistening wings and fly
[02:20.05]But that day will have to wait for awhile
[02:24.25]Baby, I'm only a society's child
[02:29.20]When we're older things may change
[02:33.34]But for now this is the way they must remain
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[02:41.04]I say, I can't see you any more, baby
[02:48.24]Can't see you anymore
[02:52.27]No, I don't wanna see you any more, baby