Neil Cicierega - Just a Baby

[ProtoGhostal]

still love how the line "I shit my pants" came out of a running joke between Neil and his friends about how different singers would sing that line lol

[FourthDerivative]

"My mama was a train, but I'm stuck in Baby Prison"

This man speaks to the human condition so directly

[etunpeudevitriol]

Who would've thought that the Freaky Man Baby had such a tragic backstory 😢

[wholenote]

just heard "the reason" for the first time and this may be the first time i have genuinely been "neil cicieregaed"

[dotxyn]

Free Johnny from the baby prison industrial complex

[OodlesMyNoodles]

I think my favourite part of this is Neil manually adding a mic popping sound effect because there was no other way to make him pronounce the letter P

[spiralgraves]

this tells us such a beautiful and tragic tale. he's just a baby, yet he's in prison. a prison of his own design perhaps? (baby prison) he shits his pants, and you feel for him. neil makes you feel for him by reminding you immediately after, that he IS just a baby boy... of COURSE he shit his pants. we shouldn't judge him.

[imperiallegionnaire]

"You gotta change your evil ways, baby"
-Carlos Santana

[kensloth]

Maybe the real baby was all the babies we met along the way after all.

[egon]

to me this song is about a baby at daycare who plays rough ("killing" other kids' toys) is put in timeout (baby prison) and adopts an outlaw persona (pretending to drink coffee and smoke while lamenting his imprisonment as he watches the other kids play) before receiving the news that his mother is a murderer (and shitting his pants out of shock)

[cheesymonday]

Oh my god, I shit my pants as a baby too! Omg this is so deep!

[retiredfromyoutubehehe]

Lyrics:

When I was just a baby
My momma told me "Son
Always be a baby
Don't ever be a gun"

But I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die
I hang my head and cry

(baby, baby, baby, oh)
When I was just a baby
(like, baby, baby, baby, no)
When I was just a boy
(like, baby baby baby, oh)
I shot a man in reno
I was just a baby boy


I hear the train a-comin'
(choo-choo)
I hear that railroad train
(choo-choo)
It's probably a good train
(choo-choo)
My momma was a train

But I'm stuck in baby prison
I know I can't be free
I hang my head and pee

(baby, baby, baby, oh)
When I was just a baby
(like, baby, baby, baby, no)
When I was just a train
(like, baby, baby, baby, oh)
I shot a train
But that train was just a car

I'm probably drinkin' coffee
Just a baby drinkin' coffee
Always drinkin' coffee
And smokin' big cigars

Well if they freed me from this prison
Well if I was a car
I bet I'd be a good car
and that's what tortures me

When I was just a baby
When I was just a boy
My momma shot a man in Reno
I was just a baby boy

(baby, baby, baby, oh)
When I was just a baby
(like, baby baby baby, no)
When I was just a train
(like, baby baby baby, oh)
I shit my pants
I was just a baby boy

[DragonQuarter]

I feel like Hoobastank's "The Reason" would've fit perfectly into this, too.

[jumpingspooder]

This should've been boss baby plot