South 2nd Lyrics

Lyric discussion by summermakegood 

Cover art for South 2nd lyrics by CocoRosie

Is it about a boy who can't play baseball, and he is made fun off? (But mama says baby go get that bat/And come back down and beat some ass + But you gotta get up at least once more) Where 'big brother' would be the baseball coatch.

Is it about the death of a boy? (Mama comes screaming down the stairs + Mama won't be making no birthday cake,...)

Is it about a boy who plays baseball, and he made a fool of himself once, by which his team lost an important game. And then, the coatch said, if you make such a mistake again, I'm gonna kill you. And in the song, they tell how It could be when that happens.

Or am I just talking crazy?

It's about a younger brother who's older brother is in a gang in Brooklyn, and the brother has him get in a fight to prove that he can be like him (get street wise=learn to defend himself while in the gang). Mama refuses to let her son (who is only a small child) fight, but he ends up dying. Baseball bat is mentioned because the Mama wants her older son (big brother) to go get the bat and get his younger brother out of the fight. But the younger brother dies before big brother gets the baseball bat.