Runs In The Family Tab par Amanda Palmer (Accords Baryton)

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my friend has problems with winter and autumn
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they give him prescriptions they shine bright lights on him
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they say its genetic they say he cant help it
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they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it

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my friend has blight he gets shakes in the night
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and they say there is no way that they could have caught it in
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time takes its toll on him it is traditional
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it is inherited predisposition

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all day i've been wondering what is inside of me who can i blame for it
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i say:

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it runs in the family this famine that carries me
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to such great lengths to open my legs
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up to anyone who'll have me
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it runs in the family i come by it honestly
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do what you want cause who knows it might fill me up

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my friends depressed she's a wreck she's a mess
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they've done all sorts of tests and they guess it has something to do with her grandmother
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grandfathers grandmother civil war soldiers who
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badly infected her
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my friend has maladies rickets and allergies that she dates back to the 17th century
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somehow she manages - in her misery - strips in the city
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and shares all her best tricks with

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me? well, i'm well. well, i mean i'm in hell. well, i still have my health
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(at least that's what they tell me)
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if wellness is this, what in hells name is sickness?
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but, business is business!

and business

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runs in the family we tend to bruise easily
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bad in the blood i'm telling you 'cause
i just want you to know me
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know me and my family
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we're wonderful folks
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but don't get too close to me cause you might knock me up

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mary have mercy now look what i've done
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but don't blame me because i cant tell where i come from
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and running is something that we've always done
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well and mostly i can't even tell what i'm running from

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i run from their pity
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from responsibility
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run from the country
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and run from the city

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i can run from the law
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i can run from myself
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i can run for my life
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i can run into debt

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i can run from it all
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i can run 'till i'm gone
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i can run for the office
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and run from the cause

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i can run using every last ounce of energy
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i cannot
i cannot
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i cannot
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run from my family
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they're hiding inside me
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corpses on ice
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come in if you'd like
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but just don't tell my family
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they'd never forgive me
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they'll say that i'm crazy
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but they would say anything if it would
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shut me up.....