Brenda's Got A Baby

[00:15.96] Brenda's got a baby
[00:27.35] Brenda's got a baby
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[00:36.99] I hear Brenda's got a baby
[00:38.52] But, Brenda's barely got a brain
[00:40.37] A damn shame
[00:41.47] The girl can hardly spell her name
[00:43.15] (That's not our problem, that's up to Brenda's family)
[00:46.06] Well, let me show you how it affects our whole community
[00:48.90] Now Brenda never really knew her moms
[00:50.97] And her dad was a junkie, puttin' death into his arms
[00:53.83] It's sad, 'cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know
[00:56.50] Just 'cause you're in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow
[01:00.27] But oh, that's a thought, my own revelation
[01:03.15] Do whatever it takes ta resist the temptation
[01:05.93] Brenda got herself a boyfriend
[01:08.30] Her boyfriend was her cousin, now lets watch the joy end
[01:11.06] She tried to hide her pregnancy, from her family
[01:13.81] Who didn't really care to see, or give a damn if she
[01:17.37] Went out and had a church of kids
[01:19.81] As long as when the check came they got first dibs
[01:22.96] Now Brenda's belly's gettin' bigger
[01:25.58] But no one seems to notice any change in her figure
[01:28.39] She's 12 years old and she's having a baby
[01:31.17] In love with the molester, who's sexin' her crazy
[01:34.20] And yet and also thinks that he'll be with her forever
[01:36.93] And dreams of a world with the two of them are together
[01:40.01] Whatever
[01:41.01] He left her and she had the baby solo, she had it on the bathroom floor
[01:44.48] And didn't know so, she didn't know what to throw away and what to keep
[01:48.50] She wrapped the baby up and threw him in the trash heap
[01:51.15] I guess she thought she'd get away, wouldn't hear the cries
[01:54.55] She didn't realize, how much the little baby had her eyes
[01:57.55] Now the baby's in the trash heap, balling
[01:59.95] Momma can't help her, but it hurts to hear her calling
[02:03.88] Brenda wants to run away
[02:05.22] Momma say, "You makin' me lose pay, and social workers here everyday"
[02:09.12] Now Brenda's gotta make her own way
[02:11.23] Can't go to her family, they won't let her stay
[02:14.49] No money, no babysitter, she couldn't keep a job
[02:17.13] She tried to sell crack, but end up getting robbed
[02:20.00] So now what's next, there ain't nothin' left to sell
[02:22.82] So she sees sex as a way of leavin' hell
[02:25.63] It's payin' the rent, so she really can't complain
[02:28.68] Prostitute, found slain, and Brenda's her name, she's got a baby
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[02:33.97] (Baby)
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[02:41.85] Don't you know she's got a (don't you know)
[02:44.79] Don't you know she's got a (don't you know)
[02:47.33] Don't you know she's got a baby (baby)
[02:53.07] Don't you know she's got a (don't you know)
[02:56.26] Don't you know she's got a (yes, she)
[02:59.15] Don't you know she's got a baby (don't you know she's havin' a baby)
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[03:04.73] Don't you know she's got a (I know, I know)
[03:07.95] Don't you know she's got a (I know)
[03:10.44] Don't you know she's got a...
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[03:16.20] Don't you know she's got a
[03:19.17] Don't you know she's got a (nowhere to go)
[03:22.07] Don't you know she's got a baby (she's got no food to eat)
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[03:27.61] Don't you know she's got a (no place to sleep)
[03:30.79] Don't you know she's got a (no place to sleep)
[03:33.45] Don't you know she's got a baby (yeah, yeah)
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[03:39.12] Don't you know she's got a
[03:42.03] Don't you know she's got a (she's got a baby)
[03:44.92] Don't you know she's got a baby
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