I was not born blind, I became blind at the age of 12. So I have seen the world and I know what things look like. When I sing about love and pain, joy and sadness, I know what I'm singing about.
Listen here. Human kindness can't be bought for pennies or silver. Kindness is kindness. Pennies and silver are pennies and silver. Can't mix the wheat with the chaff.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.