I See What I Am Patti LuPone

(Spoken)
Gimme a beat

(Sung)
Because a man cries, "I am what I see."
A woman sighs, "What you see is me."
But Mary says, "Goddamn!
I see what I am."

At the beginning of time, there was no God
There was just a lonely woman whose life felt flawed
It was the birth of the blues, she hatched a plan
She said to herself, "I'mma make me a man."
She huffed and puffed and reached deep within
She birthed a man-child who was ugly as sin
She wrapped his face up in a cloud
As if he were maimed when in fact he was proud

Because a man cries, "I am what I see."
A woman sighs, "What you see is me."
But Mary says, "Goddamn!
I see what I am."

Now that's how God came to insist
That nobody else really exists
He made a mirror he called Mankind
Held it up to his face then he wished he was blind
He flung Mankind away in disgust
It shattered into pieces of us
But Mary swept us up so fast
You know she gave us the earth, you know she blew us like glass