The Baby Stays Lyrics - Li(f)e - Sage Francis

I got nothing to teach the learnin' curve of your body 

I 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'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'mma 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 tounge 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 killswitch 

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 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 

Floppin' 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'mma snatch it 

The baby stays 

The baby stays 

And I'mma 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 tounge to catch it 

The baby stays 

The baby stays 

The baby stays