Papoose - Cure lyrics

rate me

feat. Erykah Badu

I was born in a human body, I am deadly and dangerous

The way I decrease life quality is outrageous

But you don’t gotta worry, I’m not contagious

I’m genetic, I travel through your family for ages

I could live in your daughter, I could live in your son

If you smoke cigarettes I could live in your lungs

I can develop in your stomach and be that small

But I’ll grow to the size of a basketball

Man, you can ignore me and pass it on

You’ll be a statistic and the casket gone

I could be a sharp pain that you feel in your spine

I could be a brain tumor on the back of your mind

I’ll even be in your food if you’re eating that swine

Don’t go to the doctors, though, you’ll never catch me in time

I done cause some strong men to lose their strength

Even caused some pretty women to lose their breath

Only God know the cure and to whom he bless

Is the chosen, he chose the best

I’m a physical enemy here to bring miserable treachery

I can affect him, her, they or them and me

One small woman got a check up regularly

They burned me out of her body with chemotherapy

If you come late, I deflate your energy

Take all of your hair and erase your memory

I can shorten your life if you’re living it long

Even took a black queen named Vivienne Strong

If you don’t go to the doctor that mean you support me

The only way to stop me is to catch me early

And gangsters who think I can’t get in your body

I even claimed the life of mobster John Gotti

Have you had a check-up? If no is your answer

Then let me introduce myself, my name is Cancer

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home

The prettiest woman in here blows long in the wind

Even sip when she wasn’t soft as her skin

Teeth look like ivory, pleasant as a beach

Breasts like two watermelons ripe as a peach

On the outside sexy as can be

But on the inside she’s infected with me

She be up in every neighborhood, dead on the street

Give you her phone number, get you in the V

And she don’t like condoms, she sexing for free

So if you ever met her, get tested for me

Every single day I add names to my dying list

My epidemic is strong like an iron fist

You should check your body fluids, that’s where I exist

Can travel through saliva, I hope you like the kiss

You can’t get rid of me, you can cry and wish

It’s no denying this, I insist

He said I was born in Africa but he’s a lying bitch

I was born in the laboratory, my father is a scientist

You can’t contact me if you walk in the bathroom

Or if you talk to your classmate in your classroom

You never see me coming, I’m smooth as jazz tune

Not airborne, I pass moves

But you should make sure they clean the needle

When you getting them tattoos

I’m the reason the word positive means bad news

Idiotic if you don’t believe in me

Even took a great rapper named Easy E

If you have a lot of sex you should have some condoms

‘Cause you can live with me, ask Magic Johnson

I enter your body with one assumed mission

That’s only to break down your immune system

Become sick easy ‘cause you’re not immune

And I can pass over through any open wound

So make sure you put a band-aid on your cut

Before you shake another man’s hand, saying ‘what’s up?’

I’m physical and visible, you can’t feel me

Medicine, I’m invincible, you can’t kill me

AIDS is my name, don’t get it wrong

And it stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home

This drug addict named Raj, he’s infected with my evil

Had some new dope he wanna try with his people

He said ‘go ahead, try it, it’s some brand new diesel’

That’s when I found myself traveling through a needle

Don’t even know what he get into, it’s a shame

Tied his arm up and pump me right in his veins

He had a lot of women, he was living the player’s life

But he was married, he took me home to his wife

Now she’s a carrier who carries on with me

His wife had a baby, the baby was born with me

And I hope that you wouldn’t take this song silly

A lot of people infected, it’s a strong pity

You got a jimmy hat? Then you should put on jimmy

Let’s protect ourselves, we should all, really

I’m trying to live long, won’t you live long with me?

Suburbs to the city, sing this song with me

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home

He rides to it, don’t stress a lot

Put protection on if he’s in your home