I Want to Know You

by Nick Cardilino and Elizabeth Miller

 

I spend Tuesdays serving soup at Mission Hope Café

Thursdays calling Bingo at Belmont Nursing Home

I am in the tenor section every Sunday

Singing 'bout how I'll never walk alone

Yet in the middle of my business for you, O Lord,

I feel an emptiness, a longing aching for more

 

I want to know you

I just want to know you

I want to know you

Just want to know you

 

Tuesday in the soupline Ray flashed me a toothless grin

"Son," he said, "don't look so sad and blue

Years in business taught me attitude can do you in

Keep this up, then next week, I just might be serving you"

Thursday, after bingo, Betty asked me what was wrong

"I don't know," I said. "I just feel hopeless and alone."

 

Chorus

 

It finally hit me Sunday in the words of all those songs

You've been speaking through Ray and Betty all along

And You've been telling me

 

Chorus

 

©1996 Nick Cardilino and Elizabeth Miller