I Was Zero-Sage Francis

[ti:I Was Zero] [ar:Sage Francis] [al:Li] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Was Zero - Sage Francis [00:11.27]If it wasn't for the bass I wouldn't need these hearing aids [00:16.33]If it wasn't for mistakes I probably wouldn't be here today [00:21.38]10 years ago I was 22 [00:23.63]20 years ago I was 12 [00:26.31]30 years ago I was 2 [00:28.74]But when I came out my momma I was zero [00:31.36]When I came out my momma I was zero [00:34.04]When I came out my momma I was zero [00:36.65]I was zero when I came out my momma [00:38.40]And now everybody knows [00:41.71]In the before life I was undead [00:44.29]I was home schooled there were no rules [00:46.91]But I gave it all up just for the chance to go public [00:49.65]A celestial scarecrow dancing with the puppets [00:52.37]A tug in my gut I'm carrying the world in my stomach [00:55.71]I'm a surrogate mother-f**ker the girls love it [00:58.02]Birth the suffix and cut the visible string [01:00.23]Controls much more than a physical thing [01:02.60]I was born into it and before I knew it [01:05.18]I saw the students of poor gettin' hauled off to war [01:07.93]The law of Judas in the land of the king's tax [01:10.74]Partaking the Eucharist then demand your kick-backs [01:12.67] [01:13.47]Spiritual wrist slap please pass the sacrament [01:16.03]Ask if big bad black Jesus was African [01:18.59]Selling a click track call it a soul-clap [01:21.15]It's all in how you package it [01:22.64]The power of a magic trick [01:24.22]Immaculate concepts lost in the land of the cross [01:26.80]I'm standing off with a man of the cloth [01:28.99]He knows the ins and out's and all I wants the outs [01:31.30]Hes selling real estate for some place in the clouds [01:34.29]But I'm not investing in intellectual property [01:36.66]Inventing gender-bending technology [01:38.72]Because maybe everybody needs to just become a sexual oddity [01:41.78]Leaving birth to the test tubes and death to the lottery [01:44.40] [01:44.96]There's no one stopping me I've gotta be self-regulating [01:46.77] [01:47.32]Wealth is escalating but my poverty was entertaining [01:49.07] [01:50.09]I'm debating the value of a caste system [01:52.53]I'm cash backed for wars and wars funded by my tax income [01:55.27]I find my part of the problem in part of me [01:57.91]There's always been a difference between [01:58.74]What I am and what I wanna be [02:00.67]It's either Jihadist freak or Jesus seamster [02:03.48]I heard god is cumming and she's a screamer [02:05.67] [02:06.53]I couldn't understand what she was telling me [02:08.27]Why everyone thinks that they're their own worst enemy [02:10.70]I followed the manual and I swallowed the skeleton key [02:14.04]And it unlocked the hell in me [02:15.89](So this is my gift to god) [02:18.70]Rippin' at my dick like a tourniquet syphilis [02:21.20](This is my gift to god) [02:23.63]I'm jumpin' out the cake naked with a shank [02:26.25](This is my gift to god) [02:28.98]Unwrap the package confetti made of maggots [02:31.56](This is my gift) [02:33.68]You call that talent [02:35.09]Here's your image back you can have it [02:38.46] [02:47.32]10 years ago I was 22 [02:49.43]20 years ago I was 12 [02:52.37]30 years ago I was 2 [02:54.74]When I came out my momma I was zero [02:57.43]When I came out my momma I was zero [03:00.05]When I came out my momma I was zero [03:02.60]When I came out my momma I was zero [03:04.36] [03:05.27]When I came out my momma I was zero [03:07.90]I was zero when I came out my momma [03:09.53] [03:10.05]And now everybody knows [03:11.74]And now everybody knows [03:13.18]I was zero when I came out my momman [03:14.99]And now everybody knows