What Are Families For?-Loudon Wainwright III

[ti:What Are Families For?] [ar:Loudon Wainwright III] [al:Little Ship] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What Are Families For? - Loudon Wainwright III [00:07.60]Your mother's loose your father's slim [00:09.66]She smothers you you bother him [00:11.52] [00:13.85]Passed back and forth between those two [00:16.31]Until they've had enough of you [00:18.05] [00:19.88]Another bundle comes along [00:21.30] [00:22.21]But by this time something's gone wrong [00:25.38] [00:26.14]Awake all night deprived of sleep [00:28.75] [00:29.26]It's overload they're in too deep then [00:32.13] [00:33.10]She forgets to take a pill [00:35.95]Overload is overkill [00:38.87] [00:40.02]What what are families for [00:52.41] [00:56.69]He's at the wheel she's at his side [00:59.03]Three kids in back out for a ride [01:01.23] [01:02.97]Looking at houses autumn leaves [01:05.56]Keep hope alive try to believe [01:08.45]They haven't made a huge mistake [01:11.27]And what seemed real in fact is fake [01:13.74] [01:15.14]Kids can't sit still are we there yet [01:17.94]He lights his seventh cigarette [01:20.23] [01:21.64]Almost she says it won't be long [01:24.20] [01:24.96]Look out the window sing a song [01:27.98] [01:28.63]Singing what what are families for [01:41.43] [01:46.08]You're the brother who is big [01:48.16]You were your parents' guinea pig [01:50.10] [01:51.94]The first the oldest and the best [01:54.34]Smarter quicker than the rest [01:56.12] [01:57.19]Your little sister's just a girl [01:59.57]So you can kick her from your world [02:02.82] [02:03.58]You push your baby brother down [02:06.22]And grind his face into the ground [02:09.14] [02:10.18]They do what you want them to [02:12.78]Because those two look up to you [02:18.90] [02:21.31]What what are families for [02:33.91] [02:38.59]Finally you leave the nest [02:39.97] [02:40.49]Life was a quiz now it's a test [02:42.83] [02:44.89]You can't just live a living's earned [02:47.60]So you use every trick you've learned [02:50.49] [02:51.17]You cast off siblings you make friends [02:53.76]Discover the receiving end [02:56.03]You swore you'd never be a dad [02:58.67] [03:00.81]But that's what works isn't that sad [03:03.47] [03:05.22]Young women want to mother you [03:08.18]You hate it but you want them to [03:13.20] [03:16.28]What what are families for [03:28.49] [03:33.84]All grown up holding your own [03:35.74]You fend them off by telephone [03:37.69] [03:39.99]You keep in touch it's come to this [03:41.80] [03:42.53]The furtive hug suspicious kiss [03:44.68] [03:45.22]Your sister's ensconced in your life [03:47.54] [03:48.06]The archetype of an an ex wife [03:50.12] [03:51.37]For all that dirt he ate back then [03:54.37]Your brother figures you owe him now [03:57.85] [03:58.42]Mom wants back all that dad took [04:01.36]But dad is dead he's off the hook [04:05.72] [04:06.50]What what are families for