Why Do You Have Kids?

from HEAVY META by Ron Gallo

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lyrics

Why do you have kids?
Why did you make children?
Falling asleep standing up on the corner
With cigarette ash falling in the stroller

Why do you have kids?
Why did you make children?
You gave all baby daddys money for food
To the dead eyed street pharmaceutical dude

Accidents having accidents
Now mother like daughter
Father like son
R.I.P. next generation
Goodnight, honey
You’ve got nothing to look up or forward to

Why do you have kids?
Why did you make children?
You beat your son at the grocery store
Because he cried a little when his eyes were sore

Why?

Baby runs around shoeless outside
While mama’s dressed to the junkyard nines
Feed them garbage so they stop crying
They’ll look just like you in no time

Accidents having accident
Now mother like daughter
Father like son
R.I.P. next generation
Goodnight, honey
You’ve got nothing

The kids got nothing to look up or forward to
No chance

credits

from HEAVY META, released February 3, 2017
Musicians:
Ron Gallo: lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
Joe Bisirri: backing vocals, electric guitar, bass
Josh Friedman: drums
Keaton Thandi: percussion
Dylan Sevey: nothing

Recorded at:
Converse Rubber Tracks - Brooklyn, NY
Bisirri's Pansy Garden - Philadelphia, PA
Vibetown - Philadelphia, PA
Home - Nashville, TN

Engineered by: Joe Bisirri & Bryan Pugh

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Ron Gallo Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

the world is fucked,
but the universe is inside you.

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First Unitarian Church

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May 19

Sultan Room Rooftop

Brooklyn, NY

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