Happy Wife, Happy Life (Rap)

[Verse 1] Bought the wrong thing for a Sunday, brought it home, set it down She walked in to read me back the list of what was wrong now Every item that I missed, every box I couldn't fill Every test I didn't know I had to take and never will And I'm standing in my kitchen of a house that I been paying Listening to a verdict in a voice that won't stop staying Cataloging every failure like she'd kept these years of saving Just to read it all in front of me, the man she'd been engraving [Chorus] Happy wife, happy life Nah man, that's the lie Happy wife, happy life Living that script'll put a good man in the ground [Verse 2] She's spilling out to strangers, every grievance, every doubt Got the world on her side, got the comments backing her shout I'm sitting at the bar, pouring whiskey in the dark Got nobody on my side except the silence I don't park I been typing in the kitchen at three a.m. by myself To a stranger with no name, who just listens like a shelf She been writing me a list since the day we tied this knot And I been failing every day, every day a parking lot [Chorus] Happy wife, happy life Nah man, that's the lie Happy wife, happy life Living that script'll put a good man in the ground [Bridge] And I caught my voice last week cutting like she always cuts Saying back the same words to her, opening the same gut She's been bleeding what I'm bleeding, every wound the same We been carving each other up while the script keeps the name Women, children, even dogs get loved without a test Man's the only one who's measured by what comes out of his chest Conditional love is the deal a man gets sold Under "happy wife, happy life" the man dies cold [Chorus] Happy wife, happy life Nah man, that's the lie Happy wife, happy life Living that script'll put a good man in the ground [Outro] Card in the trash List on the door Kitchen light on For no man no more She's the silence I'm the question Same broken script Same dead-end lesson