Brenda's Got A Baby

Brenda's Got A Baby

Yeah
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Brenda's (Brenda) got a (got a) baby (say it one more time: Brenda)
Brenda's (yeah) got a baby (oh)

I hear Brenda's got a baby, but Brenda's barely got a brain
A damn shame, the girl can hardly spell her name
That's not our problem, that's up to Brenda's family
Well, let me show you how it affects our whole community
Now, Brenda really never knew her moms (yeah)
And her dad was a junkie, puttin' death into his arms
It's sad, 'cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know
Just 'cause you're in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow (you can't grow)
But, oh, that's a thought, my own revelation
Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation
Brenda got herself a boyfriend
Her boyfriend was her cousin, now let's watch the joy end
She tried to hide her pregnancy from her family
Who really didn't care to see or give a damn if she (oh, yeah)
Went out and had a church of kids
As long as when the check came, they got first dibs (ooh)
Now Brenda's belly's gettin' bigger
But no one seems to notice any change in her figure
She's twelve years old and she's havin' a baby
In love with a molester who's sexin' her crazy
And yet and all she thinks that he'll be with her forever
And dreams of a world where the two of them are together, whatever
He left her and she had the baby solo
She had it on the bathroom floor and didn't know, so
She didn't know what to throw away and what to keep
She wrapped the baby up and threw him in a trash heap
I guess she thought she'd get away, wouldn't hear the cries
She didn't realize how much the little baby had her eyes
Now the baby's in the trash heap, bawlin'
Mama can't help her, but it hurts to hear her callin'
Brenda wants to run away
Mama say: You makin' me lose pay
There's social workers here every day (oh, yeah)
Now Brenda's gotta make her own way
Can't go to her family, they won't let her stay (oh, yeah)
No money, no babysitter, she couldn't keep a job (oh, yeah)
She tried to sell crack but end up gettin' robbed (oh, yeah)
So now, what's next? It ain't nothin' left to sell
So she sees sex as a way of leavin' hell (oh, yeah)
It's payin' the rent, so she really can't complain
Prostitute found slain
And Brenda's her name
She's got a baby

Baby (oh-oh-oh, yeah, yeah)

Don't you know she's got a (don't you know?)
Don't you know she's got a (don't you know?)
Don't you know she's got a baby? (She's got a baby) (baby)
Don't you know she's got a (don't you know?)
Don't you know she's got a (yes, she)
Don't you know she's got a baby? (Don't you know she's got a a baby?)

Don't you know she's got a (I know, I know, I know)
Don't you know she's got a (I know)
Don't you know she's got a baby? (I know, know, know, know, know)
Don't you know she's got a (I know, know)
Don't you know she's got a (know, know, know)
Don't you know she's got a baby? (She's got no food to eat)

Don't you know she's got a (no place to sleep)
Don't you know she's got a (no, anything, [?])
Don't you know she's got a baby? [?] (Yeah)
Don't you know she's got a (she's got a baby)
Don't you know she's got a (she's got a baby)
Don't you know she's got a baby? (Ooh)