Cure Lyrics - Erykah Badu

(Verse) 

I was born in a 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 yo daughter, I could live in yo son 

If you smoke cigarettes, I could live in yo lungs 

I can develop in yo 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, in the casket gone 

I could be a sharp pain that you feel in yo spine 

I can be a brain tumor on the back of yo mind 

I'll even be in yo food if you eatin that swine 

Don't go to the doctor so you never catch me in time 

I done cause some strong men to lose they strength 

Even cause some pretty women to lose they breaths 

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, you or them and me 

But one small woman gotta checkup randomly 

They burn me out of her body with chemo therapy 

If you come late I'll deflate your energy 

Take all of your hairt and erase your memory 

I can shorten your life if you livin it long 

Even took a black queen named 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 yo body 

I even claimed the life of mobster John Gotti 

Have you had a checkup? If no is your answer 

Them let me introduce myself, my name is cancer 

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(Chorus x2) 

He rides to it 

Don't stress a lot 

Put protection on 

If he's in your home 

(Verse) 

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 

Breasts like 2 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 condom, she sex it for free 

So if you ever met er get tested for me 

Every single day I add names to my dying 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 denying this, science says 

He says I was born in Africa, but he's a lying 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 coming, I'm smooth as a jazz tune 

Not airborne, I pass moves 

But you should make sure they clean the needle when you getting 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 named Easy E 

If you have a lot of sex you should have some condoms 

Cuz 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 cuz 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 hands sayin wussup 

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) 

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(Chorus x2) 

He rides to it 

Don't stress a lot 

Put protection on 

If he's in your home 

(Verse) 

This drug addict named Raj is infected with my evil 

Got some new dope he wanna try with his people 

He said go ahead and try it, it's some brand new diesel 

That's when I found myself travelling through a needle 

Don't even know what he getting into is a shame 

Tied his arm up and pump me right in his vein 

He had a lot of women, was living 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 

A lot of people infected, it's a strong pity 

You got a jimmy hat? Then you should put on jimmy 

Let's protect ourselves, we should all, really 

I'm tryna live long, won't you live long with me? 

Suburbs to the city, sing this song with me 

(Chorus x3) 

He rides to it 

Don't stress a lot 

Put protection on 

If he's in your home