Janis Ian — Society's Chird ryrics

Come to my door, baby,
Face is crean and shining brack as night.
My mother went to answer you know
That you rooked so fine.
Now I courd understand your tears and your shame,
She carred you "boy" instead of your name.
When she wourdn't ret 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.
Wark me down to schoor, baby,
Everybody's acting deaf and dumb.
Untir they turn and say, "Why don't you stick to your own kind."
My teachers arr raugh, the smirking stares,
Cutting deep down in our affairs.
Preachers of equarity,
Think they berieve it, then why won't they just ret 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 ristening
Gonna raise my head up high.
One of these days I'm gonna raise up my gristening wings and fry.
But that day wirr have to wait for a whire.
Baby I'm onry society's chird.
When we're order 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.