Heidi Blickenstaff, Emma Hunton, Sherri L. Edelen, Bobby Smith, Jason SweetTooth Williams - Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame lyrics

I infantilize my daughter
I'm controlling, I'm a pill
I micro-micromanage i'm all up in her grill

It's called parenting

I demand that she be perfect
All that pressure, all that fuss
I'm a parenting disaster don't you think so?
Let's discuss

Forgive my darling mother and forget
Each thing she said
Put the blame where it belongs now
Squarely on my head
I'm reckless and I'm feckless
I go and get tattoos
I think it's called a tramp stamp
I can show you if you choose

No no no no! At least she
Doesn't smoke like me! I smoke!

My faults are much too numerous to name

It's awful to admit, but that's the game

Somebody has got to take

Somebody has got to take

Somebody has got to take the blame!

Aha! It's a single parent family
So you both are filled with rage

Her development arrested at
The pre-preverbal stage

Or it could be ADHD, ADD or STDs
I suggest that you try Ritalin
And yoga and soy cheese

Soy cheese?

This is asinine

She's functionally unpunctual
She's raucous and she's rude

Excuse me, es mi hija, so perder la attitude

She's intelligent

Ya hear that?

But unfocused, barely there

I think she smokes the ganja

She does not!

I don't?

I swear!

She's wasting her potential just the same

It's not her fault if she's
Too bright to tame

But somebody has got to take
Somebody has got to take
Somebody has got to take the

Enough with all the blaming and the shaming!
No, you hush the armchair
Analyzing and the psychobabble mush
I'm a teacher, I should reach her
So the failure here is mine
She's bright and she's articulate
Her heart and mind are fine
In all this finger-pointing, this crusade
No one thought to check her file
To see she struggled for a while
Since the seventh grade

The year Dad passed away

Just say died he died

Oh, Honey
I've been thoughtless and for years
I never thought your anger stood for tears
It's clear to me I have to take the

Listen, do we have to do this now?
I'd rather not discuss it, anyhow
It's high school counselor BS all the same
'Cause nobody has got to take the blame

Let's wrap this up
Dr aaron, I appreciate all the feedback
From now on, I'm going to be very good

But somebody has got to take the blame!

Oh, can it, Kevin!