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Tar Baby

Tar Baby lyrics by Sade. Grandma came to see Something she could not believe How could her girl be So naive Tar baby, tar baby Told the secret she conceived...

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Tar Baby

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Grandma came to see

Something she could not believe

How could her girl be

So naive

Tar baby, tar baby

Told the secret she conceived

Oh, that big old smile of yours

Could turn the wind into a song

How could I have doubted

Honey it's with me that you belong

Tar baby, tar baby

I love you so

(I love you)

Like a brand new blade

You cut into my life

Cut through two decades

Like a hot coal on ice

Tar baby, my tar baby

It maybe, was meant to be

When I look at you

I can't believe my eyes

And with your magic

I think you just might charm the birds out of the skies

Tar baby, tar baby

Came good out of grief

A golden thread inside of the web

That I got caught in

Oh, it's a lover's revenge, but out of the pain

Come the best things you see

You cut into my life

You cut into my life (baby, baby, baby, baby, don't you know that)

You cut into my life (I love you)

You cut into my life

La, la, la, la, la ooh

You can turn the wind into a song

La, la, la, la, la, baby, baby, baby

It's with me you belong

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