Family Tree Lyrics

I never told you that I love you

Took everything I could

As if you were a wealthy man, how I've misunderstood

Four brothers and one sister

A family hard as rock

Stands up on the foundation of a mother's mighty love

And we don't talk about the things that make us angry

We don't talk about the things that make us cry

You gave me what you had

What you got from your dad

Am I half the man I made you in my mind, if I only take communion once in a while

Do you still feel disappointment, that I quit your law school dream

Picked up a smoking habit

With my nothing arts degree

Well your mother died from cigarettes

And I never saw her smile

To get her to the finish line took grandpa right behind her

And we don't talk about the way it makes angry

When you smell it on my clothes from time to time

She gave me what she had

What she got from her dad

And I'm half the man I played you in my mind, if I only take communion once in a while

Is the family tree still growing

Out past the frontage road

Where the mornings are always slow

Black coffee on a silent porch

Is the family tree still growing

Out past the frontage road

Where the mornings are always slow

Black coffee on a silent porch

And we don't talk about the things that make us angry

We don't talk about the things that make us cry

You gave me what you had

What you got from your dad

Am I half the man I made you in my mind, if I only take communion once in a while