You May Think I'm Lost

There's a small puppy sleeping,
Under a chair
Your poor human owners don't know you are there.
They are calling and looking,
Up streets and down wells,
But you're sleeping too soundly to answer their yells!
 

Cho:  "Oh you may think I'm lost, but that isn't the case

          You think I have vanished 'cause you can't see my face!

           Oh you silly old humans! You may stop all your screaming!

            You may think I'm lost, but I'm dreaming!!"

There's a small child asleep

In an old apple tree

Her parents are calling her name anxiously

She is visiting  planets,

And dancing with light,

But her parents are having a terrible fright!

Cho:  "Oh you may think I'm lost, but that isn't the case

          Do you  think I have vanished 'cause you can't see my face!

           Oh you silly old grownups! You may stop all your screaming!

            You may think I'm lost, but I'm dreaming!!"

There's a young woman's father

She sees when she can

In a home where they still

Dress him up like a man,

When he drools and he whispers

And con't use his hands

She just raises her voice to make him understand.

 

Cho:  "Oh you may think I'm lost, but that isn't the case

          'Cuz I stopped making sounds with the hole in my face!

           Oh you silly young woman! You may stop all your screaming!

            You may think I'm lost, but I'm dreaming!!"

There's a fool on the street

Who offends passers-by

They flinch from his old clothes

And his wild rolling eyes

And the Pastor walks past him,

A-shaking his head

At a lost soul he thinks he must give up for dead!

 

Cho:  "Oh you may think I'm lost, but that isn't the case

          You think I have vanished 'cause I won't use my face!

           Oh you silly old cleric, with your pastoral scheming!

            You may think I'm lost, but I'm dreaming!!"

Amos

2001