Another song about my damn family. The phrase 'love but don't like' springs to mind.Unlike other songs of mine dealing with this topic, this is about exsaperation, exhaustion and the realisation that you're not going to win simply because they are your parents, which is what they're entire argument consists of. (Yes, I am bitter!)

Family Fued

Been there
Done that
Tried everything
I can possibly think of
To sort this stupid thing out

Been there
Done that
Can't think of anything
To try and clear our problems
Out of the air

(kick in on 'air')

(filler, slow down again)

I'm close to giving up
With you
I'm close to leaving after
All the stupid things
You do

To me..., yeah...

I don't know what to do
About you
Any more

I can't see straight
can't think straight
Either

I watch you hit me again
and I fall onto the floor

(kick in)

(chorus)

This is too much for me, yeah...
I don't want to fight you
waste my time with this pointless
Family fued
Don't want to make you feel like a tool
Don't want you to make me feel used, yeah...

(kick down)

I've lost my energy, yeah, yeah...
Lost the will to fight
In a battle we both know I cannot win

I just wanna be left to be, yeah...
Be the person I see in the mirror everyday
In the end I want to be me
But you won't let me...

No, no, I gave up long ago
Condemed myself to eternal woe
With you
I know it's me against all of you
It'll drive me round the bend in the end
But at least i'm holding in there
Fighting till the end...

Yes, I know you think you're right all the time
Yes, I know you think I should fall back in line
You might be right
But i'll stay here and fight
Until the last
I'll never pass

This is a family fued
I will not lose

I know i've said this before
but you didn't listen
Didn't take it all in
You just picked it up and threw it in the bin
So i'll say it again
Put you through all the pain
You won't ignore me this time
No, you won't ignore me this time...

(kick in)

(chorus)

(filler)

(solo)

Father
Blind
Mother
Died

Don't think i'll listen to you
Wanna go back to the old neighbourhood
With them
Not with you
No, no, no...

Father
Child
Mother
Acting pretty damn wild, yeah

Don't know why
I can see how
I want to cry
But I won't do that now

(filler, to gentler music)

But don't think I haven't done that before
I've been in that world
Crazy thoughts cloud inside your head
Buried inside your aching hands
I've just sat their and cried
I don't know why you tried
To put in this position

Don't know why
(don't know why)
Don't know why
(don't know why)

You must have had a reason
You must have had a reason
To make me believe in you

(kick)

Tears roll down my face
All the way down fading like my hopes lose pace
I hope it will get better
But I look at you and my face gets wetter
As I cry
And you try
When I asked you why
To explain yourself...

But I gave up
I gave up everything

But I gave up
I gave up everything

(repeat)

(fade)

(end)