I ain't got no mama
or at least I don't think I do
I ain't got nobody
I've been livin' for quite sometime now
Mama? I've been a mama
Sure I've had lots of babies
Once I saw my baby out the corner of my eye
It was all gooey and brown but it looked beautiful to me
I wish I never saw that baby, 'cause now I have a face to put with this pain
I used to think I knew what pain was
I've got this machine hooked up to me, you see?
I get milked all day long
They pump me full of chemicals and who knows what so it's like I'll never run out
My utters hurts and they bleed and they ooze, that don't bother them
They stealing my babies' milk
Noone seems to care, you see?
I've been standing in this feces and urine for weeks
The bottom of my feet are all infected
I feel sick and the smell here is foul
The only sound I ever heard is anger and pain and death
You don't ever wanna hear those sounds
Yeah well I thought I knew what pain was
But that don't mean nothing until you see your baby get taken away
Don't mean nothing when you feel it inside you, growing
And you know the first thing your baby saw when it entered this world was sufferin'
And when you know thats the only thing your baby'll ever know
Yeah they take my babies away
You know where they take em'?
They hang em' up in slings so they feet can't move
They ain't never gonna know what its like to walk
I felt grass under my feet once
Not many here have
Best feeling I ever felt
I want my baby to feel that
I want my baby to walk on the grass you hear?
I'll give you all my milk, you can milk me until I die
I just want my baby to know what it feels like to not be afraid
I just want my child to feel grass
cause I never will again
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