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The Baby Stays

from Li​(​f​)​e by Sage Francis

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lyrics

I've got nothing to teach the learning curve of your body. I've got teeth that could hurt you probably. With one bite.
A tongue with spikes. A rusty knife. I wish you'd take it from me and gut me like a fish. Uptight 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 get bored by the 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 leach in my briefs and I'm bleeding like a stuck pig. Come quick! Think of a baby's name."
She wanted to call it quits.
I'm gonna name him Raymond and raise him like I don't know my own strength then 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 stares into the abyss 'til the abyss blinks. Instincts pop up to the surface like pin pricks.
Still flinch. Man handle 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 all standard prodedure with an 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.
Flopping 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 morning noon and night time.
Then we cut the cord fully aware that what we keep on the inside is too personal to share.
But now we hold it in the air like,
"Look what happened. If we throw it out with the bathwater 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.

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from Li​(​f​)​e, released May 11, 2010

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