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Artist: Papoose f/ Erykah Badu
Album:  The Nacirema Dream
Song:   Cure
Typed by: Gemini_20502K@Yahoo.com

[Verse One: Papoose]
I was born in the human body I'm 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 yourlungs
I can develop in your stomach and be that small
But I grow to the size of a basketball
Now you can ignore me and try to 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 can be a brain tumor on the back of your mind
I'll even be in your food if you eatin that swine
Don't go to the doctor so you never catch me in time
I done cost some strong men to lose they strength
Even cost some pretty women to lose they breast
Only God know the cure and to whom he bless
Is the chosen, he choose the best
I'm a physical enemy here to bring miserable treachery
I can affect him, her, they or them and me
But one small woman got a check up randomly
They burn me out of her body with chemotherapy
If you come late I'll deflate your energy
Take all of your hair and erase your memory
I can shorten your life if you livin it long
Even took a black queen name Vivian 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 gangstas who think I can't get in y'all body
I even claimed the life of mobster John Gotti
Have you ever had a checkup? If no is your answer
Then let me introduce myself my name is cancer

[Chorus: Erykah Badu]
He rides to it, don't stress alot
Put protection on, if he's in your home
He rides to it, don't stress alot
Put protection on, if he's in your home

[Verse Two: Papoose]
The prettiest woman out here blows long in the wind
Even sip when she wasn't soft as her skin
Teeth look like ivory pleasant as a beach
Breast like two watermelons ripe like 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 give you head in the V
And she don't like condoms she sexin for free
So if you ever met her get tested for me
Every single day I add names to my dyin list
My epidemic is strong as an iron fist
You should check your body fluids that's where I exist
Can travel through saliva I hope you like to kiss
You can't get rid of me you can cry and wish
It's no denyin this
Science says he says I was born in Africa but he's a lyin bitch
I was born in the laboratory my father's a scientist
You can't contact me if you walk in a bathroom
Or if you talk to your classmate in your classroom
You never see me comin, I'm smooth as a jazz tune
Not airborne, I pass moves
But you shuold make sure they clean the needle when you gettin 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 name Eazy-E
If you have alot of sex you should have some condoms
'Cause you could live with me ask Magic Johnson
I enter your body with only one assumed mission
That's only to break down your immune system
Become sick easy 'cause you not immune
And I can pass over through every open wound
So make sure you put a Band-Aid on your cut
Before you shake another man's hand sayin 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
It stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

[Chorus: Erykah Badu]
He rides to it, don't stress alot
Put protection on, if he's in your home
He rides to it, don't stress alot
Put protection on, if he's in your home

[Verse Three: Papoose]
This drug addict name Raj is infected with my evil
Got some new dope he wanna try with his people
He said go 'head and try it, it's some brand new diesel
That's when I found myself travelin through a needle
Don't even know what he gettin into is a shame
Tied in his arm up and pump me right in his vein
He had alot of women was livin to play his 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
Alot of people infected, it's a strong pity
You got a jimmy hat? Then put on Jimmy
Let's protect ourselves, we should all really
I'm tryin to live long won't you live long with me
Suburbs to the city sing this song with me

[Chorus: Erykah Badu]
He rides to it, don't stress alot
Put protection on, if he's in your home
He rides to it, don't stress alot
Put protection on, if he's in your home