Invisible - Patti LuPone

Back then

The men would look and smile at me

Like boys applying for a summer job

But no, I never would respond

The vacancy was taken

Back home

My love would whisper in my ear

Those words, a shelter for a troubled soul

That voice, like sunshine when you’re cold

Like water when you’re thirsty

And then one morning he was gone

A day went by and he was gone

A month went by and I would

Stand by the window

Holding the baby

Shaking with fear

Then one day I heard it

As real as the sun

That voice in my ear

That’s when I realized it

He was invisible

Like a magic trick

Like a miracle

I don’t know how he did it

He was gone but he still was there

But totally invisible

But don’t get me wrong

He was tangible

But invisible

Like gravity

Or the air

They said I had to take a little rest

Someplace where they could keep an eye on me

Despite the bars across the window

My room was pretty sunny

Those days were mumbles in a sleeping ear

The hallways always smelled like chicken soup

Most of the doctors were polite

The nuns were nice and… nunny

You eat your lunch, a year is gone

You go to bed, ten years are gone

Then you wake up and wonder

Where is it hiding?

Where did it go?

I don’t understand

The life I had wanted

The life I was promised

The life I had planned?

Then I realized it

It was invisible

That entire life

Was invisible

Because somebody

Misplaced it

So it had to be somewhere

Just out of reach

Just out of sight

There’s a couple dancing in candlelight

No gravity, we’re spinning in the air

Now things are pretty much the same as how they

Used to be

The young men still are smiling

They just never smile at me

At first I thought they might be blind

Like love or gravity

But then I realized

I picked it up

I’ve got the gift

I feel like supergirl

I’ve become invisible

I’m a magic trick

Isn’t it wonderful?

Like a character in a comic book

I can see what you’re thinking

But I don’t care

So if you’re on an empty street

And you hear the tapping of high-heeled feet

Or you hear a heart like a phantom beat

Or the screams of a woman left incomplete

Well, don’t fear what you can’t see

The odds are good that it’s only me

I’m invisible

I’ve vanished

In…

Thin…

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