Baobabs - Regina Spektor

You have tamed me

Now you must take me

How am I supposed to be

I don’t have my thorns now

I feel them sprouting

They’ll grow right though if I don’t watch it

They’ll grow right through even if I watch it

And a sunset couldn’t save me now

These baobabs and baobabs and baobabs some more

But you can’t outwait fate

And you have tamed me

Now you must take me

Taa-tt-ttaa-ttt-taa-tt-taake

And I wouldn’t raise my child inside this city anyway

They grow up too savvy and they grow up too fast

And they know about buying shit and they know about sex

And they know about investment banking and also about brokerage firms

And they know about the numbers and they know about the words

And they know about the bottom line and also about stones

And they know about careers and about the real deals

And they all grow up and become people’s people with people skills

But you have tamed me

Now you must take me

How am I supposed to be

I don’t have my thorns now