Our dad
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would send us to our room
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he'd be the voice of doom
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he said that we would thank him later
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all day
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he was solid as a rock
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but by eight o'clock
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we'd be crumbling
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one night
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my brother Joe and me
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climbed down the family tree
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that grew outside our bedroom window
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we ran
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though we knew it couldn't last
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running from the past
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from things that we were born to be
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Looking back it's so bizarre
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it runs in the family
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all the things we are
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on the back seat of the car
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with Joseph and Emily
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we only see so far
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- and we all have our daddy's eyes
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looking back it's so bizarre
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Dad rang
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the officer in charge
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a man so large
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he barely fit his circumstances
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he said
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two kids out on the street
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were picked up on the beat
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and in the station
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so there's me
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with Emily and Joe
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daddy driving home
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all heading in the same direction
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he knew
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no matter what the breaks
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we'd make the same mistakes
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couldn't take his eyes of Joe and me
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Looking back it's so bizarre
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it runs in the family
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all the things we are
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on the backseat of the car
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with Joseph and Emily
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we only see so far
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- and we all have our daddy's eyes
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looking back it's so bizarre
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it runs in the family
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all the things we are
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looking back it's so bizarre
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Like a dream within a dream
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we're all somewhere in between
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Like a drummer plays his drum
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like a father like a son
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- and your gonna have to face the music
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- face the music
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Hey hey
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we keep it running in the family
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hey hey
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we keep it coming in the family
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Looking back it's so bizarre
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it runs in the family
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all the things we are
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on the backseat of the car
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with Joseph and Emily
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we only see so far
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- 'cause we all have our daddy's eyes
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take me back into your arms
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it's no longer a mystery
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no cause for alarm
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could have never come this far
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with no sense of history
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it always leaves a scar
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- and we all have our daddy's eyes
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looking back it's so bizarre
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running in the family
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Hey, hey!
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Running In The Family
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