Sage Francis - Zero (Demo) lyrics

Check it out here! If it wasn't for the ba**, I wouldn't need these hearing aids If it wasn't for mistakes, I probably wouldn't be here today 10 years ago I was 22. 20 years ago I was 12. 30 years ago I was 2 When I came out my momma I was zero In the before life...I was undead I was home schooled. There were no rules But I gave it all up just for the chance to go public A celestial scarecrow dancing with the puppets A tug in my gut. I'm carrying the world in my stomach I'm a surrogate motherf**er, the girls love it Birth the suffix. Cut the visible string Control is much more than a physical thing Got an an*log God and digital king An Adonis type bod with such brittle little wings I'm not an angel by any stretch of your halo But I've done the Lord's work and I'm not even on his payroll I stay low and do my dirt on a sea level Shoo away the crow while you flirt with the she-devil Grow up. You're old enough to know that dreams falter I propose you leave that ego at the alter The pauper and the prince switch roles Exchanging tattered clothes and silk robes The man behind the curtain at the end of the yellow brick road Shows envy for Geppetto and his one inch nose If it wasn't for the ba**, I wouldn't need these hearing aids If it wasn't for mistakes, I probably wouldn't be here today When I came out my momma I was zero I was zero when I came out my momma, now everybody knows… I was born into it and before I knew it I saw the students of poor getting hauled off to war It's the law of Judas in the land of king's tax Partake in the Eucharist and then demand your kick backs Spiritual wrist slap, please pa** the sacrament
 Ask if big, bad, black Jesus was African They're selling a click track but they call it a soul clap It's all in how you package it. The power of a magic trick Immaculate concepts are lost in the land of the cross I'm standing off with a man of the cloth He knows the ins and outs. All I want is the outs He's selling real estate for some place in the clouds, but... I'm not investing in intellectual property I'm inventing gender bending technology 'Cause maybe everybody needs to just become a s**ual oddity Leaving birth to the test tubes and d**h to the lottery There's no one stopping me, I've got to be self-regulating Wealth is escalating but my poverty was entertaining Now I'm debating the value of a caste system Cash back rewards and wars funded by my taxed income If I'm a part of the problem then pardon me There's always been a difference between what I am and what I wanna be It's either Jihadist freak or Jesus scenester I heard God is coming...and she's a screamer I couldn't understand what she was telling me Why everybody thinks that they're their own worst enemy I followed the manual. I swallowed the skeleton key... And it unlocked the hell in me So this is my gift to God. 
Ribbon on my dick, like a tourniquet. Syphilis This is my gift to God.
 I'm jumping out the cake. Naked with a shank This is my gift to God.
 Unwrap the package. Confetti made of maggots This...is my gift. "Ugh, you call that talent?
" Here's your image back. You can have it 10 years ago I was 22.
 20 years ago I was 12 30 years ago I was 2.
 When I came out my momma I was zero