You Don't See Me - Live, 1977

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.