Runs In The Family (Album Version) - Amanda Palmer.mp3

[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 famine 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
[00:39.31]me up
[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
[00:44.54]me up
[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 maladies rickets and 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 bad.
[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
[01:30.51]me up
[01:31.15]me up
[01:31.88]me up
[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
[01:36.62]me up
[01:37.31]me up
[01:37.89]me up
[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]Corpses on ice
[02:13.06]Come in if you'd like 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.