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?

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

My mother went to answer you know

That you looked so fine.

2 Now I could understand your tears and your ___,

She called you "boy" instead of your name.

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

When she turned and said

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

She says

I can't see you any more, baby,

5 Can't see ___ anymore.

Walk me down to school, baby,

6 Everybody's acting deaf and ___.

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

My teachers all laugh, their smirking stares

7 Cutting deep down ___ our affairs.

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

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

They say I can't see you anymore baby,

9 Can't see you ___.

One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening

10 Gonna ___ my head up high.

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

11 But that day will have to wait ___ a while.

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

12 When we're older things ___ change,

13 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.