Alix Olson - Deadbeat Daddy lyrics

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 America’s just a deadbeat daddy trying to grow up A deadbeat daddy putting nickels in our cup When the law says he’s got to And i guess i should have guessed Your daddy wasn’t kind Cause his mouth smiled before his eyes Never caught up Like a store sign flipped to open But the door’s still locked Like america Saying come on in baby Your uncle sam’s 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 don’t harm you The daddy you come from Cause we all grow up With the same melting molting america Up your a** 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 she’s relieved Your deadbeat daddy wants you Cause america’s 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 it’s cold Like america, the deadbeat daddy Who holds you tight While you sleep