Family Portrait
Momma please stop crying, I can’t stand the soundYour pain is painful and it’s tearing me downI hear glasses breaking as I sit up in my bedI told God you didn’t mean those nasty things you saidYou fight about money, about me and my brotherAnd this I come home to, this is my shelter
It ain’t easy growing up in world war 3Never knowing what love could be, you’ll seeI don’t want love to destroy me, like it has done my family
Can we work it out?Can we be a family?Promise I’ll be betterMommy, I’ll do anythingCan we work it out?Can we be a family?Promise I’ll be better
Daddy, please don’t leave
Daddy please stop yelling, I can’t stand the soundMake Momma stop crying ‘cause I need you aroundMy momma she loves youNo matter what she says, it’s trueI know that she hurts you, but remember I love you tooI ran away todayRan from the noise, ran awayDon’t wanna go back to that placeBut don’t have no choice, no way
It ain’t easy growing up in world war 3Never knowing what love could be, what I've seenI don’t want love to destroy me, like it has done my family
Can we work it out?Can we be a family?Promise I’ll be betterI promise I’ll do anything to keep homeCan we work it out?Can we be a family?Promise I’ll be betterI promise, I promiseDaddy, please don’t leave
In our family portrait we look pretty happyLet’s play pretend, let’s act like it comes naturallyI don’t wanna have to split the holidaysAnd I don’t want 2 addressesI don’t want a step brother anywaysAnd I don’t want my mom to have to change her last name
In our family portrait we look pretty happyLet’s play pretendOh let’s go back, oh let’s go back to thatRemember the days, remember the daysLet’s go back to thatCan we be a family?Promise I’ll be betterDaddy, please don’t leave meDaddy, don’t leave, daddy, don’t leaveDaddy, don’t leave, turn around please
Remember that the night you leftYou took my shining starDaddy, don’t leave, Daddy, don’t leaveDaddy, don’t leave, don’t leave me here
Mom will be nicer and I’ll be so much betterAnd I’ll tell my brother I won’t spill the milk at dinnerI’ll be so much better, I’ll do everything rightI’ll be your little girl foreverI’ll go to sleep at night