Sage Francis - I Was Zero lyrics

If it wasn't for the bass
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
But when I came out my momma I was zero
When I came out my momma I was zero
I was zero when I came out my momma
And now everybody knows

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 mother-fucker the
Girls love it
Birth the suffix and cut the visible string
Control's much more than a physical thing
I was born into it, and before I knew it
I saw the students of poor
Gettin' hauled off to war
The law of Judas in the
Land of the king's tax
Partaking the Eucharist
Then demand your kick backs
Spiritual wrist slap
Please pass the sacrament
Ask if big bad black Jesus was African
Selling a click track, call it a soul-clap
It's all in how you package it
The power of a magic trick
Immaculate concepts
Lost in the land of the cross
I'm standing off with a man of the cloth
He knows the ins and out's and
All I wants the outs
Hes selling real estate for some
Place in the clouds but I'm not investing
In intellectual property
Inventing gender-bending technology
Because maybe everybody needs to just
Become a sexual oddity
Leaving birth to the test tubes
And death to the lottery
There's no one stopping me
I've gotta be self-regulating
Wealth is escalating
But my poverty was entertaining
I'm debating, the value of a caste system
I'm cash backed for wars and wars
Funded by my tax income
I find my part of the problem in part of 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 cumming and shes a screamer

I couldn't understand what she
Was telling me
Why everyone thinks that they're
Their own worst enemy
I followed the manual and I
Swallowed the skeleton key
And it unlocked the hell in me

(So this is my gift to god) Rippin'
At my dick like a tourniquet, syphilis!
(This is my gift to god)
I'm jumpin' out the cake
Naked with a shank
(This is my gift to god) Unwrap
The package confetti made of maggots
(This is my gift) 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
I was zero when I came out my momma
And now everybody knows

If it wasn't for the bass
I wouldn't need these hearing aids
If it wasn't for mistakes
I probably wouldn't be here today