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Artist: Sade
Canonical path: /sade/tar-baby
Related lyric paths: 6
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Tar Baby
Read Tar Baby lyrics by Sade on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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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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