Tartuffe

(album: Victory Lap - 2017)

We came here to rock!

Single moms to the front!
Dead-beat dads to the rear!
Oh yes, that is how we do it here

Oh, you demand a more Vaudevillian homage
To key feminist thought?
Ha! Male privileges frantically checked?
Okay, go sit through "Less Talk"

Single moms to the front! We came here to rock

Alright, so not quite John Stoltenberg after all
But I ain't quite Charlie Sheen
The truth is a little bit of column A, a little bit column B

But you, you're the main character in a masterwork by Moliere
It's quite the Broadway production you got going on over there

Impressive how long some can keep the illusion alive
You think you nailed the end of Act III? I can't wait for Act V
Overture! Curtains! Hit the lights!

But aren't we all just better off coming clean?
Instead of this endless self-flagellating talk?
The painfully predictable denouement?
Performative schlock
Single moms to the front!
We came here to rock!