Brenda's Got A Baby

[00:39.51] I hear Brenda's got a baby, but Brenda's barely got a brain

[00:43.27] A damn shame, the girl can hardly spell her name

[00:46.01] "That's not our problem, that's up to Brenda's family"

[00:49.01] Well, let me show you how it affects our whole community

[00:52.02] Now Brenda really never knew her moms

[00:53.77] And her dad was a junkie, puttin' death into his arms

[00:56.77] It's sad, 'cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know

[00:59.52] Just 'cause you're in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow

[01:03.01] But oh, that's a thought, my own revelation

[01:06.01] Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation

[01:09.02] Brenda got herself a boyfriend

[01:11.26] Her boyfriend was her cousin, now let's watch the joy end

[01:14.27] She tried to hide her pregnancy, from her family

[01:17.02] Who really didn't care to see, or give a damn if she

[01:20.51] Went out and had a church of kids

[01:22.76] As long as when the check came, they got first dibs

[01:26.51] Now Brenda's belly's gettin' bigger

[01:28.52] But no one seems to notice any change in her figure

[01:31.51] She's twelve years old and she's havin' a baby

[01:34.26] In love with a molester, who's sexin' her crazy

[01:37.03] And yet and all she thinks that he'll be with her forever

[01:40.02] And dreams of a world where the two of them are together

[01:42.76] Whatever, he left her and she had the baby solo

[01:45.76] She had it on the bathroom floor and didn't know, so

[01:48.76] She didn't know what to throw away and what to keep

[01:51.51] She wrapped the baby up and threw him in a trash heap

[01:54.52] I guess she thought she'd get away, wouldn't hear the cries

[01:57.00] She didn't realize how much the little baby had her eyes

[02:00.51] Now the baby's in the trash heap, bawlin'

[02:03.02] Mama can't help her, but it hurts to hear her callin'

[02:06.51] Brenda wants to run away

[02:08.26] Mama say "You makin' me lose pay

[02:10.26] There's social workers here every day"

[02:12.51] Now Brenda's gotta make her own way

[02:14.76] Can't go to her family, they won't let her stay

[02:17.51] No money, no babysitter, she couldn't keep a job

[02:20.52] She tried to sell crack but end up gettin' robbed

[02:23.26] So now, what's next? It ain't nothin' left to sell

[02:26.26] So she sees sex as a way of leavin' hell

[02:29.01] It's payin' the rent, so she really can't complain

[02:31.77] Prostitute found slain, and Brenda's her name

[02:35.01] She's got a baby