Mr. Cellophane

If someone stood up in a crowd

And raised his voice up way out loud

And waved his arm

And shook his leg

You'd notice him

If someone in a movie show

Yelled "fire in the second row,

This whole place is a powder keg!"

You'd notice him

And even without clucking like a hen

Everyone gets noticed, now and then,

Unless, of course, that personage should be

Invisible, inconsequential me



Cellophane

Mister Cellophane

Should have been my name

Mister Cellophane

Cause you can look right through me

Walk right by me

And never know I'm there

I tell ya

Cellophane

Mister Cellophane

Should have been my name

Mister Cellophane

Cause you can look right through me

Walk right by me

And never know I'm there



Suppose you was a little cat

Residin' in a person's flat

Who fed you fish and scratched your ears

You'd notice him

Suppose you was a woman wed

And sleepin' in a double bed beside one man for seven years

You'd notice him

A human being's made of more than air

With all that bulk, you're bound to see him there

Unless that human bein' next to you

Is unimpressive, undistinquished

You know who



Should have been my name

Mister Cellophane

Cause you can look right through me

Walk right by me

And never know I'm there

I tell ya

Cellophane

Mister Cellophane

Should have been my name

Mister Cellophane

Cause you can look right through me

Walk right by me

And never know I'm there

Never even know I'm there