《Family Portrait》歌词

歌曲： Family Portrait

所属专辑：The Family Tree:The Roots

歌手： Radical Face

时长： 04:40

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Family Portrait (全家福) - Radical Face[00:00:00]

So we start with my father as a boy barely spoke a word of english fell in love from a distance He watched her working from the back fence [00:00:55]

He learned some words and some clever turns of phrase from his father's book of poets [00:01:07]

She wasn't taken in that instant but grew impressed with his persistence [00:01:13]

They met each other out by moonlight made love in the nearby woods then her folks became suspicious when her cycle broke that settled it [00:01:19]

They stole away without their goodbyes got married in a foreign town made their way as best as they could Found jobs and settled down And then time moved on [00:01:30]

I was born in a river of blood on sheets from the wedding day [00:02:12]

The room was dark and the stench was thick [00:02:17]

My father couldn't stand the smell of it [00:02:20]

Mama died in the night cause the nearest doctor couldn't stem the blood loss [00:02:23]

Father cried out on the back porch [00:02:29]

My sister held me at the neighbor's house [00:02:32]

Oh my there was a storm then there was a flood of a different kind [00:02:35]

Father's eyes were often vacant but his hands were rarely quiet [00:02:41]

Sister learned to take her hits well both from life and the physical kind [00:02:47]

But I was never one to lie down despite picked the fight [00:02:52]

So we designed our hells [00:02:59]

Father turned into a drinker a dark bastard with a wooden heart [00:03:29]

Sister learned to be a mother before she never played another part [00:03:34]

And I became a little terror I lashed out at whatever's around [00:03:40]

Took some time before I settled to find a mind that was somewhat sound [00:03:46]

And like it always does time rushed on [00:03:53]

Six years later father dies in the very same bedroom [00:04:10]

Many said it was the grief that did it [00:04:14]

I have to say it's cause he hung himself [00:04:18]

To be honest neither sister nor myself ever much reqret his passing [00:04:21]

But I admit it was a nice thing to always know that we could feed ourselves[00:04:27]