Society's Child Lyrics

Jeanette does this song in both Spanish and English, and while this song is written and belongs to Janis Ian, she manages to make it her own as well.

Come to my door, baby,
face is clean and shining black as night.
My mother went to answer, you know,
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 blind.
Until they turn and say
why don't you stick to your own kind.

My teachers don't laugh, they smirk and stare.
Cutting deep down in our affair.
Preachers of equality. If they Believe it
but 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 my glistening wings and fly.
But that day will have to wait for awhile.
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 can't see you any more, baby.
Can't see you anymore.