Jim Carroll - I Don't Hear You

The blue light flashes
Billy feels its motion
He says, "Should I go and set it free?"
Black-eyed Suzie
Picks up on the notion
She says, "Put it in the lonely tree"
He says, "Baby, we best sharpen our imagination."
He says, "It seems like the rest
don't comprehend the situation." I don't hear you
All the words that come and go
Don't say what I'm after
I don't hear you
Scream it through a microphone
Whisper in a deadly tone... Don't hear you not you Jane's a dancer
In quiet desperation
She says: "What I give I give for free"
Her twin sister
Feels the same sensation
But says, "You must buy it all from me..."
She says, "oh, I feel best
When the rest is all uncertain."
She says, "Thoughts in my breast
Just hang there like a burning curtain" I don't hear you
You don't matter, you don't care
I don't call that living
I don't hear you