[Verse 1] Rattling cups, for coin under sheds, Pickin up scraps nobody claimed... A man walked past me, with his collar up, Neither of us knew the other's name... [Verse 2] It was face-down in the alley water, Older than the bricks it lay upon... I lifted it and shook the rain out, And something in the reeds already knew the song— [Pre-Chorus] I didn't play it — it played through me... Took the tune, let it move me... [Chorus] And look at me now! Look at me now, I came from nothing, and I made the whole world loud! (ooooaahhh) Every hand in every window, every head bowed down, I played the sound... Look at me now. [Instrumental] [Verse 3] So they... put a wreath on me, in April, Said the sound, had always been my own. And I believed them — God! I believed them! So I let them call me king, yeah, I took their throne— [Chorus 2] And look at me now! Look at me now! I came from nothing, and I made the whole world loud! (ooooaahhh) Every hand in every window, every head bowed down I played the sound, look at me now. [Instrumental] [Bridge] (Ooooo) I set it in the gutter where I found it, No need for old reeds, with this... shining crown. And before I thought twice, somebody was already... reaching down... What a pity... they must be... Desperately searching... for meaning! [Chorus 3] (Just look at them now!) Yeah look at them now! Crawlin through the dust, along the ground... (Yeah look at them now!) Look at them now! What fool needs old reeds, when I have a crown? Look at them now... [Breakdown] [Verse 4] There's a bridge on the north side of the city, They play that tune, everyone claims to know. I've lived beneath it since last winter, Trying to think of where I'd heard it before... [Outro] ...So look at me now (Madam? Spare a coin?), Yeah look at me now (Sir? Any change?), Came back to nothing, that tune finds me again and... Look at me now! (Please? Any coin?), Please look at me now! (Change? Anyone?!), Came back to nothing... That tune reminds me of something... Please look at me now... [End] Copyright © 2026 by Melody&Grace https://suno.com/@melodyandgrace
