You Don't See Me

You don't see me when I'm Trying to do right Maybe you can see me now When I was walking, Patting my feet on the pavement Really, truly trying to find a gig Did you stand up and speak Out in my favor? Cold desperation, She's a devil in bed Scratching till my bones are bare Pill and needles are all I've left to savor We were walking and I told you of how my shoes Of how my shoes were wearing thin You took your surplus and Traded for a favor Now I'm demented and I'm Burned unto a cinder Forty hours buys a grocery Bag for trash I took my pistol and I made Myself a sinner Will this universe be merciful at last? You don't see me. You don't see me I get so tired of trying to Attract your attention It has occurred to me that You don't see me You should go ahead. I'm a-gonna-go-ahead I know you're going to ahead You're going to do what You're going to do I know, see, I see you, I watch you You take the money and run You take groceries and run, too Don't leave nothing left for me You're running and hiding And ducking and hiding And running and hiding and I can't find you nowhere I'll beat your mama, I'll beat your daddy I'll go to jail, It don't make no mothafugging Difference what happens to me Going to be there in my Own time, in my own way Cause you don't see me, You don't see me I'm, I'm in your mirror.