Runs In The Family (Album Version)

Song Runs In The Family (Album Version)
Artist Amanda Palmer
Album Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Lyrics

[00:01.12] Amanda Palmer - Runs in the Family
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[00:03.28] My friend has problems with winter and autumn.
[00:04.98] They give him prescriptions, they shine bright lights on him.
[00:07.87] They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it,
[00:11.65] but sometimes you're born with it.
[00:13.11] My friend gets frights
[00:13.95] he gets shakes in the night and they say that there's no way
[00:16.55] that they could have caught it in time takes its toll on him.
[00:19.26] It is traditional.
[00:20.40] It is inherited.
[00:21.54] Predispositional.
[00:22.71] (All) day I've been wondering what is inside of me, who can I blame for it?
[00:26.81] I say it runs in the family.
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[00:28.60] This family that carries me to such great lengths to open my legs up
[00:31.26] to anyone who'll have me. It runs in the family, I come by it honestly,
[00:36.12] do what you want 'cause who knows it might fill me up.
[00:38.89] me up
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[00:40.01] me up
[00:40.66] me up
[00:41.33] me up
[00:42.02] me up
[00:42.66] me up
[00:43.13] fill me up
[00:43.50] me up
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[00:45.38] me up
[00:45.90] me up
[00:46.57] me up
[00:47.17] me up
[00:47.71] me up.
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[00:48.73] My friend's depressed, she's a wreck, she's a mess.
[00:50.37] They've done all sorts of tests and they guess
[00:52.63] it has something to do with her grandmother's grandfather's grandmother's
[00:56.11] civil war soldiers who probably infected her.
[00:57.81] My friend has validation in some allergies that she dates back to the 17th century.
[01:02.40] Somehow she manages in her misery.
[01:05.02] Strips in the city and shares all her best tricks with me
[01:08.78] well, I'm well well I mean I'm in hell well I still have my health at least
[01:11.38] that's what they tell me.
[01:13.50] If wellness is this what in hell's name is sickness?
[01:16.11] But business is business and business runs in the family.
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[01:19.30] We tend to bruise easily.
[01:20.63] Mad in the blood.
[01:21.90] I'm telling you 'cause I just want you to know me, know me and my family.
[01:25.90] We're wonderful folks, but don't get too close to me 'cause you might knock me up.
[01:29.98] me up
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[01:32.58] me up
[01:33.14] me up
[01:33.81] me up
[01:34.53] knock me up
[01:35.28] me up
[01:35.97] me up
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[01:38.55] me up
[01:39.11] me up.
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[01:39.95] Mary have mercy, now look what I've done, but don't blame me
[01:42.81] because I can't help where I come from.
[01:44.90] And running is something that we've always done well and mostly
[01:47.84] I can't even tell what I'm running from.
[01:49.93] Run from their pity, from responsibility.
[01:52.07] Run from the country and run from the city.
[01:54.57] (I) can run from the law, I can run from myself.
[01:56.91] I can run from my life, I can run into debt.
[01:59.34] I can run from it all, I can run til I'm gone.
[02:01.93] I can run for the office and run for the cause.
[02:04.46] I can run using every last ounce of energy.
[02:06.59] I cannot, I cannot, I cannot run from my family.
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[02:09.94] They're hiding inside of me.
[02:12.10] Don't change my life.
[02:13.06] Help me if you might but just don't tell my family.
[02:15.60] They'd never forgive me.
[02:17.47] They'd say that I'm crazy.
[02:18.89] But they would say anything if it would shut me up, shut me up, shut me up,
[02:31.34] me up
[02:31.89] me up
[02:32.62] me up
[02:33.35] me up
[02:34.01] me up
[02:34.89] shut me up
[02:35.94] me up
[02:37.14] me up
[02:37.95] me up
[02:38.74] me up
[02:39.28] me up
[02:39.91] me up
[02:40.50] me up.