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Tim O’Brien – lyrics to “Family History”
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Family history, I don’t know too much,
Family history, I don’t keep in touch
With my mother and father quite like I want to do
There’s some family history, I’d rather not go lookin’ through
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Family history, it will repeat,
Look through your history, you’re sure to meet
Someone a walkin’ much the same pathway as you
It’s just family history, like it or not you’re passin’ through
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Family bible, dates and names,
Faces in pictures, they look much the same
Like you’re runnin’ in circles, until you don’t know where it ends
Can’t know where you’re goin’ until you know just where you’ve been
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What’s with my uncle, I want to know,
We never see him, whenever we go
To some family reunion, no one dares to say his name
It’s against the rules in our secret family history game
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Family history, need to learn,
Lest old troubles will return
Come back and haunt you, you’ll hear them rattle their chains
You’d better break it, it might just drag you down again
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Family history, seems like fate,
But you can break it, it’s not too late
To ask a few questions, it’s time to face up to your fear
Because it lies there waitin’, it’s comin’ back again next year
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Family history, I don’t know too much,
Family history, I don’t keep in touch
With my mother and father, quite like I want to do
There’s some family history, I’d rather not go lookin’ through
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True – Its family history