Baobabs

Album: Begin to Hope (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
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  • You have tamed me
    Now you must take me
    How am I supposed to be?
    I don't have my thorns now

    And I feel them sprouting
    They'll grow right through if I don't watch it
    They'll grow through even if I watch it
    And a sunset couldn't save me now

    These baobabs, and baobabs
    And baobabs some more
    But you cant out-wait fate

    You have tamed me
    Now you must take me
    T-ta t-t-ta t-t-t-ta

    And I wouldn't raise my child inside the city anyway
    They grow up too savvy and they grow up too fast.
    And they know about buying shit and they know about sex
    And they know about investment banking and also about brokerage firms
    And the know about the numbers and they know about the words
    And they know about the bottom lines and also about stones
    And they know about careers and about the real deals
    And they all grow up and be come people's people with people skills.

    You have tamed
    Now you must take me
    How am I supposed to be?
    I don't have my thorns now

    You have tamed me
    Now you must take me
    How am I supposed to be?
    I don't have my thorns Writer/s: REGINA SPEKTOR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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