Family Tree - Mchangani

Forgotten things remembered The tigers eat their young The body stayed but inside the head The mind was on the run A conspiracy of silence The only way out of pain Is turn around, run through it, man Too wet to come in from the rain Tell them I know they were doin' it to you But don't try doin' it to me Let me show you how I love you It's our secret, you and me Let me show you how I love you But keep it in the family When you hear them saying "Trust me" Don't wait to see what's next Thrown to the wolves, forever trusting Raised in a form of living Hell Sing a one note song of rage Live and die within your heart So beware in the shadows Your family tree waits in the dark I say "I know they were doin' it to you But don't try doin' it to me" No, no... Let me show you how I love you It's our secret, you and me Let me show you how I love you But keep it in the family tree Let me show you how I love you It's our secret, you and me Let me show you how I love you The secret of the family tree Let me show you how I love you It's our secret, you and me Let me show you how I love you But keep it in the family tree Let me show you how I love you It's our secret, you and me Let me show you how I love you The secret of the family tree Let me show you how I love you It's our secret, you and me Let me show you how I love you

See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family Hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family Hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree I was taught one day in another life You'll meet a nice boy and become a wife He'll put food up on the table And he'll always be your faithful And you'll always be stable And you'll never be ungrateful You taught me different definitions 'Cause fucked up seeds carry on tradition I won't become your new addition Baby listen, baby listen The truth is that my roots they come from the dark But the more that I loved you the more that I learned I'm not gonna fight what I know I deserve Know what I deserve And it's easy now to see Apple doesn't fall far from a tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family Hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree (At 23 she was earning her own living, and living her own life) (And in her time, being a batchelor girl isn't the social disgrace it was when our parents called them "spinsters") Maybe I'm just too jaded Probably way too young to think That it's so complicated Too young to think so into things But, no, no, no, no See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family, family, family Oh, hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree (oh no) Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me (loving me) From the way I see you treat your family Oh hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised (Were you raised) How I let you stay and grow on me (on me) I need better than your family tree

Before the days of Jello Lived a prehistoric fellow, Who loved a maid and courted her Beneath the banyan tree. And they had lots of children. And their children all had children. And they kept on having children Until one of them had me! We're a family and we're a tree. Our roots go deep down in history From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me, We're a green and growing family tree. My grandpa came from Russia; My grandma came from Prussia; They met in Nova Scotia, Had my dad in Tennessee. Then they moved to Yokohama Where Daddy met my Mama. Her dad's from Alabama and her mom's part Cherokee. We're a family and we're a tree. Our roots go deep down in history From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me, We're a green and growing family tree. Well one fine day I may go To Tierra Del Fuego. Perhaps I'll meet my wife there And we'll move to Timbuktu. And our kid will be bilingual, And though she may stay single, She could, of course, comingle with the King of Kathmandu. 'Cause we're a family and we're a tree. Our roots go deep down in history From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me, We're a green and growing family tree. The folks in Madagascar Aren't the same as in Alaskar; They got different foods, different moods And different colored skin. You may have a different name, But underneath we're much the same; You're probably my cousin and the whole world is our kin. We're a family and we're a tree. Our roots go deep down in history From my great-great-grandmother reaching up to me, We're a green and growing family tree. We're a green and growing family.

These crosses all over my body Remind me of who I used to be And Christ, forgive these bones I'm hiding From no one successfully Jesus can always reject his father But he cannot escape his mother's blood He'll scream and try to wash it off of his fingers But he'll never escape what he's made up of The Fates already fucked me sideways Swinging by my neck from the family tree He'll laugh and say, "You know I raised you better than this" Then leave me hanging so they all can laugh at me

Dancing in the living room, cutting up a rug Dancing with the baby looks more like a hug Living in a house made of sawmill wood Rollover Beethoven never sounded so good Chorus: So come on baby, baby let's go Where we get the money honey I don't know But one more baby's alright by me We'll just add another limb to the family tree Well raising up babies is our new sport You're one day late and I'm a dollar short Now maybe it was planned and maybe it was a goof But a cat's just gotta dance on a hot tin roof Chorus: Yeah come on baby, baby let's go Where we get the money honey I don't know But one more baby's alright by me We'll just add another limb to the family tree Well the lawnmower's broke and the tax is due And if I find another tick I'm gonna come unglued We got hand-me down clothes and hand-me down shoes We got the big belly momma-here-we-go-again blues Chorus: Hey hey baby, baby let's go Where we get the money honey I don't know But one more baby's alright by me We'll just add another limb to the family tree Baby, whooooahh Where we get the money, hell I don't know One more baby's alright by me It's alright It's alright now baby We'll just add another limb to the family tree Well just add another limb baby We'll just add another limb to the family tree