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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) |