Erykah Badu — The Cell

[Verse 1] Girl came through, the light skin honey with the cinnamon smell Girl was so enticing, baby, make a nigga choose hell Momma hopped up on cocaine Daddy on space ships with no brain Sister gone numb the pain the same Why same DNA cell [Scatting] [Verse 2] She was turned out on shine new things (diamond gold chains diamond gold rings) Center-fold spread, she trying to do things See she be on that cough syrup in coke cans Twenty-inch-rim-man with no land, her pussy gone numb the pain the same Why same DNA strand [Scatting] [?] Yesterday [Bridge and Ad-libs] We're not well We're not well We can't tell [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah) [Verse 1] Girl came through, the light skin honey with the cinnamon smell Girl was so enticing, baby, make a nigga choose hell Momma hopped up on cocaine Daddy on space ships with no brain Sister gone numb the pain the same Why same DNA cell [Ad-libs throughout] [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah) [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah) [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah) [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah) [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah) [Chorus] Brenda done died with no name Nickel bag coke to the brain Will they ever find the vaccine? Shitty-damn-damn-baby-bang Rich man got the double barrel Po' man got his back to the door Code white stands for trouble Shots from the po-po (blah blah)