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Runs in the Family | ||
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Artist | Amanda Palmer | |
Written by | Amanda Palmer | |
Length | 2:59 | |
Album(s) | Who Killed Amanda Palmer |
Runs in the Family is a song by Amanda Palmer.
History[]
"Runs in the Family" was written during the same time period as "Girl Anachronism" and was performed as a Dresden Dolls song before being vetoed for the band.
The song is about a woman using sex as a coping mechanism and feeling ashamed because of it so she tries to make up excuses by blaming her family. Saying ‘it runs in the family.` She uses her other friends who do have problems in their family using them as an example for her purpose.[]
- my friend has problems with winter and autumn
- they give him prescriptions, they shine bright lights on him
- they say it’s genetic, they say he can’t help it
- they say you can catch it - but sometimes you’re born with it
- my friend has blight he gets shakes in the night
- and they say there is no way that they could have caught it in
- time takes its toll on him, it is traditional
- it is inherited predisposition
- all day i’ve been wondering what is inside of me, who can i blame for it
- i say:
- it runs in the family, this famine that carries me
- to such great lengths to open my legs
- up to anyone who’ll have me
- it runs in the family, i come by it honestly
- do what you want ‘cause who knows it might fill me up
- my friend’s depressed, she’s a wreck, she’s a mess
- they’ve done all sorts of tests and they guess it has something to do with her grandmother’s
- grandfather’s grandmother civil war soldiers who
- badly infected her
- my friend has maladies, rickets, and allergies that she dates back to the 17th century
- somehow she manages - in her misery - strips in the city
- and shares all her best tricks with
- me? well, i’m well. well, i mean i’m in hell. well, i still have my health
- (at least that’s what they tell me)
- if wellness is this, what in hell’s name is sickness?
- but business is business!
- and business
- runs in the family, we tend to bruise easily
- bad in the blood i’m telling you ‘cause
- i just want you to know me
- know me and my family
- we’re wonderful folks but
- don’t get too close to me ‘cause you might knock me up
- mary have mercy now look what i’ve done
- but don’t blame me because i can’t help where i come from
- and running is something that we’ve always done
- well and mostly i can’t even tell what i’m running from
- i run from their pity
- from responsibility
- run from the country
- and run from the city
- i can run from the law
- i can run from myself
- i can run for my life
- i can run into debt
- i can run from it all
- i can run till i’m gone
- i can run for the office
- and run from the ‘cause
- i can run using every last ounce of energy
- i cannot
- i cannot
- i cannot
- run from my family
- they’re hiding inside me
- corpses on ice
- come in if you’d like
- but just don’t tell my family
- they’d never forgive me
- they’ll say that i’m crazy
- but they would sign anything if it would
- shut me up.....