Baby was a black sheep. Baby was a whore.
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Baby got big and baby get bigger.
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Baby get something. Baby get more.
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Baby, baby, baby was a rock-and-roll nigger.
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Oh, look around you, all around you,
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riding on a copper wave.
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Do you like the world around you?
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Are you ready to behave?
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Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.
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Outside of society, that's where I want to be.
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(Lenny!)
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Baby was a black sheep. Baby was a whore.
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You know she got big. Well, she's gonna get bigger.
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Baby got a hand; got a finger on the trigger.
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Baby, baby, baby is a rock-and-roll nigger.
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Outside of society, that's where I want to be.
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Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.
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(those who have suffered, understand suffering,
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and thereby extend their hand
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the storm that brings harm
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also makes fertile
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blessed is the grass
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and herb and the true thorn and light)
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I was lost in a valley of pleasure.
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I was lost in the infinite sea.
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I was lost, and measure for measure,
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love spewed from the heart of me.
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I was lost, and the cost,
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and the cost didn't matter to me.
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I was lost, and the cost
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was to be outside society.
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Jimi Hendrix was a nigger.
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Jesus Christ and Grandma, too.
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Jackson Pollock was a nigger.
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Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,
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nigger, nigger, nigger.
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Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.
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Outside of society, if you're looking,
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that's where you'll find me.
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Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.
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Outside of society. (Repeat)
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Rock'N'Roll Nigger
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| Patti Smith |
