The Baby Stays-Sage Francis

[ti:The Baby Stays] [ar:Sage Francis] [al:Li] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.73]I got nothing to teach the learnin' curve of your body [00:03.22]I got teeth that could hurt you prolly [00:05.34]With one bite [00:06.22]A tounge with spikes a rusty knife [00:08.23]I wish you'd take it from me [00:09.59]An gut me like a fish up tight and selfish [00:12.28]Got a lust for life and a death wish [00:14.60]They're husband and wife and they [00:16.10]F**k like they're helpless [00:16.91] [00:17.61]Am i a product of uninteresting sex [00:20.05]If I'm bored by your pillow-talk and Newport cigarettes [00:23.01]She chews on fiberglass like a teething infant [00:25.69]He breathes in her stink and seems indifferent [00:27.61]She dreams of children [00:29.16]He hears the pitter-patter of little fetuses [00:30.96]He's like "stand by me [00:33.03]There's a leech in my briefs [00:34.46]And it's bleeding like a stuck pig Come quick" [00:36.83]Think of a baby's name she wanted to call it Quits [00:39.65] [00:40.29]I'mma name him Raymond and raise him [00:42.11]Like I don't know my own strength [00:43.62]And bench-press the baby naked [00:45.19] [00:45.75]Hold it to the sky like "look what I did [00:48.63]It's mine and you can't have it" [00:51.00]Until it rains and when it rains [00:53.50]He sticks out his tounge to catch it [00:55.24]The baby stays [00:56.24] [01:07.09]He just stares into the abyss 'til the abyss blinks [01:09.78]Instincts pop up to the surface like pinpricks [01:12.73]Still flinch [01:13.72]Manhandle the killswitch [01:15.30]Peg meet square get dismantled by drill-bits [01:18.36]The deconstruction of a functional addict [01:20.56]Leaving assumptions to a bunch of fanatics [01:22.68]It's just standard procedure [01:24.15]With a automatic pilot light [01:25.77]Hide behind a white lab rain coat 'cause the water broke [01:28.83]Press eject [01:30.00]First comes the head then the neck [01:31.75]Then the body avalanches out the tape deck [01:34.24]Flappin' on the ground like a fish out of its element [01:36.23] [01:36.93]No one wants to acknowledge the carnage [01:38.61]The mess or elephantthat's in the room [01:40.80]Connected to the womb with a lifeline [01:42.50] [01:43.02]Labored all day through the morning noon and nighttime [01:45.90]Then we cut the cord fully aware [01:48.15]What we keep on the inside's too personal to share [01:51.45]Now we hold it in the air like "look what happened" [01:54.39]If we throw it out with the bath water [01:56.20]Will you catch it [01:57.57]Or let it go down the drain [01:59.32]If it goes down the drain I'mma snatch it [02:01.44]The baby stays [02:04.49] [02:06.93]The baby stays [02:11.86] [02:13.67]And I'mma hold it to the sky like "look what I did [02:16.54]It's mine and you can't have it" [02:18.60]Until it rains and when it rains [02:21.29]He sticks out his tounge to catch it [02:23.22]The baby stays [02:25.41] [02:26.16]The baby stays [02:28.90]The baby stays