What About The Baby

Album: Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (2007)
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  • I want to apologize for makin you wait so long for the sequel
    Wyclef, Mary J., this one called 'What About the Baby'
    You ever been like

    [Wyclef]
    Let me talk to my daughter
    Daughter this is your poppa
    I know it's been a while
    We haven't talked

    [Mary J. Blige]
    But daddy you've been gone
    And me and mom have been all alone
    It's been a struggle and you weren't there for us
    He say

    [Wyclef Jean]
    Okay, when I called you
    She wouldn't put you on the phone
    She call the police, restrainin order
    50 feet, from my home
    I tried, I ain't lyin
    It's so sad that the heavens cryin, AYY!
    Once a boy and twice a man
    I'm just tryin to do the best I can
    Give me a chance girl

    [Chorus: Wyclef]
    A grown man ain't supposed to cry
    So why does water fill my eyes when I hear your voice
    Everything gon' be alright
    Baby girl I'm by your side, dry your eyes

    [Mary J. Blige]
    Let's talk this over
    Now see I heard everything that you told her
    But it's gon' take more than words
    For you to be a father, uh-huh
    Responsibilities of a man
    Like stayin faithful just for the fam'
    What if she knew that you chose
    Another over her mother, aowwww!
    So you called her
    And I wouldn't put her on the phone
    I called the police yes, restrainin order
    50 feet, from my home
    I tried, I ain't lyin
    It's so sad that the heavens are cryin, yeahhh
    Once a girl, twice of a man
    And I'ma try to do the best I can
    I can't give you a chance noooo

    [Chorus: Mary J. Blige]
    A woman ain't supposed to cry
    So why don't you just wipe your eyes, dry your eyes
    You've learned a house is not a home
    When you're living all alone, and you want back home

    [Wyclef]
    Wait a minute girl! You're my joy, happiness that you bring
    Turn the fall back to spring girl, you're my bling
    You a hip-hop song I heard for the first time time
    Studied all the words to the rhyme
    You're my life, without you there's no sun, there's no moon
    There's no stars, shinin in the ni-iight

    [Mary J. Blige]
    But if I give you a chance, would you show me you care
    Be a man, no matter what the circumstances
    Ahhhow!

    [Wyclef]
    A grown man ain't supposed to cry
    So why does water fill my eyes when I hear your voice
    [Blige]
    You've learned a house is not a home
    When you're living all alone, and you want back home

    [Chorus: Wyclef]
    A grown man ain't supposed to cry
    So why does water fill my eyes when I hear your voice
    (What about the baby! What about the baby!)
    Everything gon' be alright
    Baby girl I'm by your side, I apologize!
    I cry, and I cry, I cry Writer/s: JERRY DUPLESSIS, LATAVIA PARKER, MARY BLIGE, WYCLEF JEAN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Jen from Robertsdale, AlMy Son is soon to be promoted to SSGT in the Army. He has already served a tour in IRAQ....he is now in Afghanistan (since Dec 26, 2008,,,he won't be home until APR/MAY OF 2010. "the baby' by Blake is his favorite song....he IS my 'baby'....there's 15 yrs between him and his sister. She is married with 3 kids. He is only 25 and single....and this song explains him to the core. Except he is in Afghanistan and is in FROM Alabama. His present rank and addrress is
    Mike Parker, SGT
    Special Agent Parker-Intelligence
    Kandahah Airfield
    ARSIC-S J2
    APO, AE 09355

    A note from Blake would mean the world to him.
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