Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame

[00:01.77] I infantilize my daughter
[00:04.52] I'm controlling, I'm a pill
[00:06.72] I micro-micromanage
[00:09.14] I'm all up in her grill
[00:11.36] It's called parenting
[00:12.27] I demand that she be perfect
[00:15.69] All that pressure, all that fuss
[00:18.58] I'm a parenting disaster
[00:20.72] Don't you think so?
[00:22.02] Let's discuss
[00:23.78] Forgive my darling mother and forget each thing she said
[00:28.08] Put the blame where it belongs now
[00:30.20] Squarely on my head
[00:32.20] I'm reckless and I'm feckless
[00:34.56] I go and get tattoos
[00:39.13] I think it's called a tramp stamp
[00:41.46] I can show you if you choose
[00:43.22] No no no no no, at least she doesn't smoke like me, I smoke!
[00:48.25] My faults are much too numerous to name
[00:52.05] It's awful to admit, but that's the game
[00:55.88] Somebody has got to take
[00:57.97] Somebody has got to take
[00:59.96] Somebody has got to take the blame
[01:06.47] Aha, it's a single-parent family
[01:10.37] So you both are filled with rage
[01:12.23] Her development arrested at the pre-preverbal stage
[01:16.21] Or it could be ADHD, ADD or STDs
[01:21.45] I suggest that you try ritalin and yoga and soy cheese
[01:25.84] Soy cheese?
[01:26.98] This is asinine
[01:28.35] She's functionally unpunctual, she's robbed us and she's rude
[01:32.49] Excuse me, es mi hija, so perder, la attitude!
[01:36.52] She's intelligent
[01:37.88] Ya hear that?
[01:38.53] But unfocused, barely there
[01:40.88] I think she smokes the ganja
[01:42.85] She does not!
[01:44.13] I don't?
[01:44.67] I swear!
[01:46.87] She's wasting her potential just the same
[01:50.95] It's not her fault if she's too bright to tame
[01:54.76] But somebody has got to take
[01:56.86] Somebody has got to take
[01:59.05] Somebody has got to take the
[02:02.16] Enough with all the blaming and the shaming, no, you hush!
[02:05.52] The armchair, analyzing and the psycho babble mush
[02:09.09] I'm a teacher, I should reach her
[02:11.23] So the failure here is mine
[02:14.55] She's bright and she's articulate
[02:17.84] Her heart and mind are fine
[02:21.88] In all this finger-pointing, this crusade
[02:26.43] No one thought to check her file
[02:29.22] To see she struggled for a while
[02:32.65] Since the seventh grade
[02:38.90] The year dad passed away
[02:40.78] Just say died, he died
[02:45.27] Oh honey, I've been thoughtless and for years
[02:49.72] I never thought your anger stood for tears
[02:53.93] It's clear to me I have to take the
[02:56.12] Listen, do we have to do this now?
[02:59.51] I'd rather not discuss it, anyhow
[03:03.49] Is high school counselor BS all the same?
[03:07.41] 'Cause nobody has got to take the blame
[03:14.03] Let's wrap this up
[03:15.47] Dr. Aaron, I appreciate all the feedback
[03:19.65] From now on, I'm going to be really good
[03:24.72] But somebody has got to take the blame!
[03:33.72] Oh, can it, Kevin!
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