come to my door baby face is clean and shining black as night my mother went to answer you know that 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 dumb until they turn and say why don t you stick to your own kind my teachers all laugh the smirking stares cutting deep down in our affairs preachers of equality think they believe it then 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 up my glistening wings and fly but that day will have to wait for a while 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 say i can t see you anymore baby can t see you anymore no i don t want to see you anymore baby