Family Tree - The Starlings

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.

I know you have to But I don't want you to go I'll keep you close It might be better, but We wanna take things slow Just hold me close 'Cause I've been shaking For a little while Don't keep me waiting now You and me, we rule The world tonight Oh, I Feel so alive And if it gets darker We make it bright I'm yours Baby you're mine I'm so glad you're mine Ooh, Ooh Let me hold your heart Let me guide you home I'll keep you close Let me in your world Be your corner stone So hold me close 'Cause I've been waiting For a little while Don't keep me craving now You and me, we rule The world tonight Oh, I Feel so alive And if it gets darker We make it bright I'm yours And baby you're mine I'm so glad you're mine Ooh, Ooh So glad you're mine Oh, oh, oh 'Cause I've been shaking For a little while Don't keep me craving now Ohh now You and me, we rule The world tonight Oh, I Feel so alive And if it gets darker We make it bright I'm yours And baby you're mine You and me, we rule The world tonight Oh, I Feel so alive And if it gets darker We make it bright I'm yours Baby you're mine I'm so glad you're mine Ohh, ohhh The world tonight You and me, we rule The world tonight

Well, we watched the starlings fly Around the burnt-down pier and die Spilled my coffee on my sleeve She wiped it with a smile And told me I was juvenile And kissed me softly on my cheek And her hair danced in the breeze Like a thousand swinging trees In a forest lying next to stormy seas Well, we watched the wintry sky Turn a shade of turquoise, I Whispered softly "I feel lost" She turned with laughing eyes And curled her lips towards the sky And said, "get your map out, then, you knob!" And we laughed like a pair of fools Like kids, they laugh at school And we wandered home before the day brought dusk