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