A Place for My Head
I like the song "A Place for My Head".
It suddenly hit me as an allegory for a death affirming, antinatalist talking to their parent.
I watch how the moon sits in the sky in the dark night Shining with the light from the sun The sun doesn't give light to the moon assuming The moon's gonna owe it one It makes me think of how you act to me You do favors, then rapidly You just turn around and start askin' me about Things that you want back from me
The sun just exists. When you're dead, your atoms just exist, peacefully.
Parents act like they did you a favour by bringing you into existence and worse ones will expect you to do favours for them (put them in carehomes, visit them) all because they had unprotected sex.
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger Sick of you actin' like I owe you this Find another place to feed your greed While I find a place to rest
When one is alive, one has hungers and wants and needs.
And parents think they are owed gratitude for creating you and creating your suffering and not even giving you a way out.
I'm yet to find an unselfish reason for having children.
Why can't parents allow their children to find a place to rest if they want to.
I wanna be in another place I hate when you say you don't understand (You'll see it's not meant to be) I wanna be in the energy, not with the enemy A place for my head
That other place being the primordial aether, or non existence.
The moment you can agree that suffering is bad, why are you saying you don't understand?
The energy being non existence or the abyss. The enemy being the pro lifers.
Maybe someday, I'll be just like you and Step on people like you do
The antinatalist lamenting the possibility that they might fall for the propaganda to have children.
When a parent has a child, I hope they understand that their child could be "stepped on" by life or other "children" or that their child could be the one doing the "stepping".