Society's Child

Read the song lyrics below and guess the missing words. Then listen and answer the questions in red.

Come to my door, baby, Who is the speaker?

Face is clean and shining ___ as night. Identify the literary device.

My mother went to answer you know

That you ___ so fine.

Now I could understand your tears and your ___,

She called you "boy" instead of your name.

When she wouldn't let ___ inside, What kind of conflict is this?

When she turned and said

"But honey, he's not our ___."

She says I can't see you any more, baby,

Can't see ___ anymore.

Walk me down to school, baby,

Everybody's acting deaf and ___.

Until they turn and say, "Why don't you ___ to your own kind."

My teachers all laugh, their smirking stares,

Cutting deep down ___ our affairs.

Preachers of equality, How is irony used in this line?

Think they believe it, then why won't they ___ let us be?

They say I can't see you anymore baby,

Can't see you ___.

One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening

Gonna ___ my head up high.

One of these days I'm gonna raise up my glistening wings and fly. Literary device?

But that day will have to wait ___ a while.

Baby I'm only society's child. Identify the literary device.

When we're older things ___ change,

But for ___ this is the way they must remain.

I say I can't see you anymore baby, How does the tone of this line shift?

Can't see you anymore.

No, I don't want to see you anymore, baby.