To Be Invisible

To be Invisible

To be invisible will be my claim to fame;

A girl with no name, that way I won’t have to feel the pain.

Indispensable! Just a plain old human being today don’t mean a thing

in a world that’s so mean, a world that seems not for me.

So privately I’ll be invisible; that way I won’t have to explain a thing,

if you know what I mean. I won’t even have to be here on the scene.

It’s so ridiculous, but the strife and the bliss will go right on through, right on

through me to have missed all the things that hurt you so, no one would ever

know, they’d never know.

Life, so preciously, just don’t seem to me as free as they claim free-dom to be.

Things are go-in’ fast to have found that all’s in the past; to have to take what

you can get sure can make a heart up-set.

Inconspicuous! I must be-have my-self for somebody else who may have a

little fame, for-tune, and wealth.

It’s so ridiculous, but the strife and the bliss will go right on through, right on

through me to have missed all the things that hurt you so, no one would ev-er

know, no, no, no, they’d nev-er know.

Life, so pre-cious-ly, just don’t seem to me as free as they claim free-dom to be.

Oh, things are go-ing fast to have found that all’s in the past; to have to take

what you can get sure can make a heart up-set. (Whispered) So I’ll be invisible.

Curtis Mayfield (1974)