The Invisibles

The world waits for you, and

And the dawn breaks for you, and

And the media will watch and she will change her mind

I tried to win for you, and

I shared my skin for you, and

I loved you like my own

I fed you like a child

I stay in back and feed the day

With my imagination, honey

Falling through the cracks in people's kindness

And the won't step aside

I tried to make you want me

I left my home at seventeen

But everywhere I've looked I saw

Another me

And we are the invisibles

Plain and lonely

It's funny how it's always out of reach

I hear the work pigeons, and

I call my father in, and

He sits and hears me sing

But never wonders why

Oh, why do I call out

In the night

He found the photos, satellite

Everything about her

Makes me want to smoke

I stay in back and feed the tape

With my polite conversation, father

Papering the cracks in others' silence

But I still won't step aside

I tried to make her want me

I tried to play her politics

But every step I took

I had to swallow this

But we are, the invisibles

Strange and lonely

It's funny how it's always out of reach

It's funny how it's always out of reach

It's funny how it's always out of reach