Sage Francis - The Baby StaysLyrics

I got nothing to teach the learnin' curve of your body I got teeth that could hurt you prolly With one bite A tongue with spikes, a rusty knife I wish you'd take it from me An gut me like a fish. up tight and selfish Got a lust for life and a death wish They're husband and wife and they Fuck like they're helpless Am I a product of uninteresting sex If I'm bored by your pillow-talk and Newport cigarettes? She chews on fiberglass like a teething infant He breathes in her stink and seems indifferent She dreams of children He hears the pitter-patter of little fetuses He's like "stand by me, There's a leech in my briefs and it's bleeding like a stuck pig Come quick!" Think of a baby's name, she wanted to call it Quits I'm a name him Raymond and raise him Like I don't know my own strength And bench-press the baby naked Hold it to the sky, like "look what I did! It's mine, and you can't have it." Until it rains, and when it rains He sticks out his tongue to catch it The baby stays He just stares into the abyss 'til the abyss blinks Instincts pop up to the surface like pinpricks Still flinch Manhandle the kill switch Peg meet square, get dismantled by drill-bits The deconstruction of a functional addict Leaving assumptions to a bunch of fanatics It's just standard procedure With a automatic pilot light Hide behind a white lab rain coat 'cause the water broke Press eject First comes the head, then the neck Then the body avalanches out the tape deck Flappin' on the ground like a fish out of its element No one wants to acknowledge the carnage, the mess or elephant That's in the room Connected to the womb with a lifeline Labored all day through the morning noon and nighttime Then we cut the cord, fully aware What we keep on the inside's too personal to share Now we hold it in the air, like "look what happened!" If we throw it out with the bath water Will you catch it? Or let it go down the drain If it goes down the drain I'm a snatch it The baby stays The baby stays And I'm a hold it to the sky, like "look what I did! It's mine, and you can't have it." Until it rains, and when it rains He sticks out his tongue to catch it The baby stays The baby stays The baby stays