Name: Things That Sting
Duration: P00H04M00S
Description: In a colony, the worker bees are female and do all the heavy lifting, meanwhile the males sit back and wait to fertilize. In America, women still make 80¢ for every dollar the average man earns. We're honoring Equal Pay Day (3/31/20) with a song about exposing the hypocrisy and doing right by each other.

Things That Sting

by Step Children

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In a colony, the worker bees are female and do all the heavy lifting, meanwhile the males sit back and wait to fertilize. In America, women still make 80¢ for every dollar the average man earns. We're honoring Equal Pay Day (3/31/20) with a song about exposing the hypocrisy and doing right by each other.

lyrics

Feelings change, people stay the same
Love is strange, people make mistakes
Stealing change from the collection plate
Love’s like mange, a parasitic plague

Birds start singing when the moon is low
Words are stinging
And balloons can go for miles
Till the sun begins to glow

Run for your money, nothing to show
Bees make honey when the queen is low
Starving for nectar, we’re bringing it home
Let’s go! Let’s go!

Hard working women, buzzing drones
Sex crazed men make the colony grow
Waiting for sugar, sitting on their lazy bones
Now the neighbors all know

Feelings fade, people stake their claim
Ricochet, love’s a bird of prey
Peeling paint on the collapsing gate
Love’s insane, a paralytic pain

Out of range, waiting game
Maiden name, baggage claim
Rearrange, fan the flame
Nickname, guessing game

The gamesmanship, the showmanship
We won’t admit, we’re hypocrites

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released April 3, 2020
Derek Shaw & Daniel Owens

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Step Children San Francisco, California

Post-apocalyptic electronic rock

Derek Shaw
Daniel Owens

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