Alix Olson Deadbeat Daddy
My daddy used to sing me to sleep
With labor songs
Whisper me to sleep with stories of faraway lands
Where things
Were done right
He let his child dream
Cause he knew that while we sleep
Taco bell births three new chains
The biggest welfare mamas are steel buildings and
Americas just a deadbeat daddy trying to grow up
A deadbeat daddy putting nickels in our cup
When the law says hes got to
And i guess i should have guessed
Your daddy wasnt kind
Cause his mouth smiled before his eyes
Never caught up
Like a store sign flipped to open
But the doors still locked
Like america
Saying come on in baby
Your uncle sams lookin for a fix
My daddy turned to vodka with a twist of lime
To keep his mind off of
America
My daddy took off his ties and dressed
In expensive labor unions instead
My daddy was ahead of his midwestern charm
And mostly, it dont harm you
The daddy you come from
Cause we all grow up
With the same melting molting america
Up your ass while you sleep
Taco bell births three new chains around you
And you wonder why you never learned to walk
Your first step was towards your daddy
And your next step was towards your daddy
And your mama wonders sometimes if she failed you
But mostly shes relieved
Your deadbeat daddy wants you
Cause americas discriminating
And the brain unlike the skin
Is invisibly incriminating
America takes shots at blacks
My daddy drinks shots to forget
America is a deadbeat daddy
The biggest welfare mamas are steel buildings
And so for the most part, we parent ourselves
My daddy sang me to sleep with the way things should be
Cause he knew the hardest part of my history
Would be learning it
So i drink a shot of vodka for my daddy sometimes
And i always make sure its cold
Like america, the deadbeat daddy
Who holds you tight
While you sleep