So Much I Still Don't See

Stuck in line behind Gladys at the grocery store

Smiling as she showed me a new doll for her grand daughter

Dark skin, hair curly

Oh there’s so much I still don’t see

I grew up on the classics

Tales of heroes and love

A pale ocean reflecting what I could become

Superman, the president

A father, a family

Oh there’s so much I still don’t see

It’s easy to say sit back down

Come on in the water is fine

It’s easy to say

We’ve reached the higher ground

When your face looks like mine

Times have changed

But they’re deep in me

There’s so much I still don’t see

There’s so much I still don’t see

Black ice on 95

Snow falling fast

I breathed a sigh of relief as those lights flashed past

They stepped out and smiled

Strolled right up to me

Oh there’s so much I still don’t see

There’s so much I still don’t see

It’s easy to say sit back down

Come on in the water is fine

It’s easy to say

We’ve reached the higher ground

When your face looks like mine

Times have changed

But they’re deep in me

There’s so much I still don’t see

There’s so much I still don’t see

Just look at me

A Yankee to the core

Thought I read Martin Luther King

Learned about the civil war

But it all seemed so distant

So hard to believe

In the million little strings

Connecting them to me

Because there’s so much I still don’t see

There’s so much I still don’t see

There’s so much I still don’t see