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Somebody's baby boy ain't coming home tonight
We don't need no baseball bats
We don't need no silver ghats
But we're gonna fight tonight
Put up your dukes and fight
Big brother's just standing on the side
Watching you flex your pride
But you know if they all jump in
Big brother's got your skin
The ice cream truck it sings no more
All the kids from school are keeping score
You swing and you duck and you hit the floor
but you gotta get up at least once more
Mama comes screaming down the stairs
Everybody looks but nobody scared
Mama can't believe that nobody cares
It's her baby boy how do they dare
Mama says bitch come over here
If you're so tough you'll have no fear
But why'd you bring all your friends
And the whole damn school
To watch my baby boy go down like a fool
But brother says mama they're the same damn size
Got to let him grow up and get street wise
But mama says baby go get that bat
And come back down and beat some ass
Somebody's baby boy ain't coming home tonight
One wrong move and it'll be too late
Mama won't be making no birthday cake
It all went down one afternoon
In Brooklyn
We don't need no baseball bats
We don't need no silver ghats
But we're gonna fight tonight
Put up your dukes and fight
Big brother's just standing on the side
Watching you flex your pride
But you know if they all jump in
Big brother's got your skin
The ice cream truck it sings no more
All the kids from school are keeping score
You swing and you duck and you hit the floor
but you gotta get up at least once more
Mama comes screaming down the stairs
Everybody looks but nobody scared
Mama can't believe that nobody cares
It's her baby boy how do they dare
Mama says bitch come over here
If you're so tough you'll have no fear
But why'd you bring all your friends
And the whole damn school
To watch my baby boy go down like a fool
But brother says mama they're the same damn size
Got to let him grow up and get street wise
But mama says baby go get that bat
And come back down and beat some ass
Somebody's baby boy ain't coming home tonight
One wrong move and it'll be too late
Mama won't be making no birthday cake
It all went down one afternoon
In Brooklyn
Lyrics submitted by diabolical
Track duration: 04:09
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"Mama can't believe that nobody cares. It's her baby boy how do they dare"
This shows what the mother was feeling. She can't believe that the kids don't care about her son, because he's her whole world.
"Mama won't be making no birthday cake. It all went down one afternoon. In Brooklyn"
She won't ever make his birthday cake again because he'll never get older. This all happened in Brooklyn.
“We don't need no baseball bats
We don't need no silver ghats
But we're gonna fight tonight
Put up your dukes and fight”
Pretty self explanatory, a fist fight. But remember the first 2 lines, they’ll come into play later.
“All the kids from school are keeping score
You swing and you duck and you hit the floor
but you gotta get up at least once more”
Everyone’s keeping score so it‘s more than one fight, by hitting the floor he either got knocked out or didn’t win that fight whatever. But he has to do it again to rid of the shame of being beaten.
“But why'd you bring all your friends
And the whole damn school
To watch my baby boy go down like a fool”
The mother of the beaten boy is obviously upset in finding her son beaten and feels he’s being picked on and is outnumbered.
“But mama says baby go get that bat
And come back down and beat some ass”
And it sounds like because of that she recommends he goes out with a bat for the next fight.
“One wrong move and it'll be too late
Mama won't be making no birthday cake”
So I guess he did go out with the bat, possibly beat the other boy or was shot before he had a chance. It was just a fist fight, but it escalated. Judging from the first 2 lines if one boy brought a bat as retaliation, than the next thing after for the other would be a gun “silver gat”.