Have you heard the news today
They say a little fourteen-year-old girl had a baby on the way
Too much for her little mind to bare
And that type of news, to her mama, she cannot spare

Toilet Tisha
Damn, we miss ya
Toilet Tisha
Is the issue
Damn we miss ya, Toilet Tisha
Damn we miss ya

Tisha, Tisha
Tisha, girl, what you doin'?
Oh my God, oh, Tisha
Tisha, ah, Tisha, Tisha
Ah, no, not my baby
Ah, I love you, ah, Tisha, ah

Don't go away
Don't you dare go away from me, girl, I can help you
Don't go away, don't you dare leave me
Don't go away (it ain't a thing)
Don't go away

Five thousand, one hundred ten days
Is a short period of time, a mere fourteen years
On this precious mother earth, you see Tisha had issues
And her decision making skills were still in it's early stages
You know what I'm talking about?
Therefore, she could not properly handle a blessing in which
She thought to be an obstacle in her path to adulthood
Pause, just like a brother with a thousand pauses
Should I, shouldn't I, I cant, I have to, mama will never see me the same
Daddy and Big Mama, I know all of them gonna be ashamed of me
Are just a few thoughts racing through her cranium
As she sits on top of the pale, cold porcelain seat
In the rear of the house
The unthinkable
Moments away from becoming reality, sadly, with no clue
And no way of expressing her feelings
To her mama or anybody else in her life
Tisha done came to the crossroads and now she got to choose
Fatality, fatality, fatality, fatality


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Toilet Tisha Lyrics as written by Antwan Patton Andre Benjamin

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    as one can tell from the lyrics, it's about a teenage mother-to-be contemplating suicide.

    molofanon March 26, 2006   Link
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    More than contemplating. This song is obviously a reflection of the girl after she already killed herself.

    fearnotofmanon December 28, 2007   Link
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    This song is not about suicide in my opinion. Why would that even make sense? I think what it's really about is a girl who chooses to perform her own coathanger abortion on the toilet, but dies in the process. The fatality she chooses is that of her baby, but she ends up dying too. I think the song has a lot more social meaning in this interpretation. There are lots of suicide songs already written,but not many addressing the complex issues of abortion, especially as it relates to the black teenage mothers in america.

    afropathon December 19, 2009   Link

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