Текст песни Conversation Topics to Avoid - TurtleFrogMan

Five different generations spent the holidays together
And in time the conversations moved beyond the local weather
Which in turn led to an argument more vicious than the usual fuss

There are conversation topics it be better that you didn't discuss

I remember how it started, grandpa made the proud endorsement
That in his day nearly everyone respected law enforcement
And his grand niece said, I disagree, I think we should defund the police

There are conversation topics you should run from if you want to keep the peace

This made grandpa very angry, he thought of young folks as his pupils
He questioned her intelligence and and ridiculed her scruples
And she fired back, the cops killed Micheal Brown and then they murdered poor George Floyd

There are conversation topics you should do your very best to avoid

As the conversations heated and the temperatures were warming
It was clear that generational alliances were forming
With the elders on the one side and the younger on the other side aligned

On certain conversation topics, its better that you never had opined

The arguments got mixed like they were shoved inside a blender
From gun rights to abortion to the rights of the transgender
And the volumes of the normal tones of voices had been turned up to a shout

There are conversation topics that you'd better keep your mouth shut up about

As the arguments continued in almost each and every case
No matter how it might have started the topic always turned to race
And grandpa and his grand niece had the following unpleasant tit for tat

There are conversation topics you should run from like a mouse runs from a cat

She said, White people are oppressors they built each racist institution
And grandpa cried, they also wrote the us constitution
She said, the constitution's just a pack of lies, Thomas Jefferson had slaves

Certain conversation topics have the founding fathers spinning in their graves

She said, Whites have benefited from the systems that they built
And they should recognize their privilege and accept collective guilt
And grandpa cried, if you believe that then the dream of Martin Luther king is dead

There are conversation topics that will make you say things better left unsaid

And now the poison from the younger folks poured out this verbal spigot
And insults hurled like Nazi, racist, homophobe, and bigot
Blood relatives engaged in acts of verbal retribution, sharp and brisk

Yeah there are conversation topics for which the benefits don't justify the risk

The greatest generation and the boomers were both pitted
Against Millennials and Gen Z, in mortal combat both committed
Generation X was in the middle trying hard to be the referee

Yeah there are conversation topics that might be tear apart your whole damn family

And then the elders all announced: we've had enough of this we're leaving
And connections that took years to form all at once were cleaving
No apologies would matter now, those insults formed a permanent wedge

There are conversation topics that send level headed people off the ledge