Being A Parent lyrics

If being a parent had requirements

That were evaluated and graded

To be university trained for years

To be precepted for many months

Passing mental health standards

And employment verification

All things critical to parenting

Dedication to duty at all times

Coolness in the face of adversity

Unflinching will to sacrifice all

It would be a much smaller world

A quieter world, a better world

All that flourishes criminally now

Might all but vanish in short

It would be a childless world

There are so many 'special' children

Deemed so by 'special' parents

That are exceptional and unconfined

By the very same standards heired

Disposing of society's claims

That takes away from selfish lust

And cripples them to be victims

So they ever perceive lifelonglong

Their enemy bears their cost

Unable to choose anything else

They remain sentenced for life

To keep outcasts unwelcoming

Substances numbed by themselves

An existence condemned by fate

Traded by decisions made ago

Between two planes indifferent

Apathy and overindulgence lie

Truths never really realized

Until faced then, all alone