"My Mama Taught Me" is the intro for the upcoming track "Dinner with the Devil". It's supposed to sound like a crackly, old, live recording from a smoky jazz club. I wrote "Dinner with the Devil" over three consecutive summers, and this intro is what I wrote as a fifteen-year-old. At the time I had just started becoming more politically active and was struggling to reconcile my angry, radical, political ideals with my deep-seated conviction to always be kind and forgiving.
lyrics
Lyrics:
My mama taught me good table manners.
My mama taught me to be kind.
My mama taught me to be respectful, but
My mama taught me to speak my mind.
Oh, I’m sittin’ pretty at your dinner table:
Better play nice.
Can’t mind my Ps and Qs with the ones holding my shackles but I’m
Sure gonna try to.
Two, a-one, two three four.
credits
from Songs to the Monster Under My Bed,
released May 1, 2021
Mirabai Kukathas (she/they) - lyrics, melody, vocals
Michael Grant (he/him) - piano
Grafton Downs (he/him) - vocals
Matt "Sabyu" Sablan (he/him) - production
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