Family Tree

from Basement Stories by Zerostars

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If there's a question
"Do you intend to be free"?
Or is your past repeating
Your story of slavery?

And if there's a moment
To have a word with you
Will you share the shadow
That climbs our family tree?
Our family tree

If there's a reason
I fail the way I do
I've loved an imitation
Of what I thought was true

And if you can stand this
Display of poverty
Walk here in my footsteps
Around our family tree
Our family tree

I scored all the time off you
I struggled to hide from you
I stripped all the pride from you
And failed in spite of you

You swallowed the lie for me
Disguised it entirely
And stayed up and cried for me
Stood sleepless in agony

I never could offer much
I couldn't decide for us
I thought this would right itself
We'll never survive ourselves

And if you should find me
Crawling in the dirt
Leave me at the bottom
Of our family tree
Of our family tree

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from Basement Stories, released March 22, 2008

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