All you want me to be

Family Line

For the bad situations good people never deserve.

My great grandfather 

hurt my great grandmother

and maybe it goes back farther

but I know for sure it was there

then

My grandmother and grandfather drank

they "drank away their problems"

and a baby boy

It's not just blood that runs through a family line

it's pain, it's punches, it's problems

and maybe one day we'll know

why it's the only thing able to travel through time

family is a bond they say

and I won't denounce mine

but they can keep their pain

in whatever way they want

if they must pray

or if they must hide

doesn't matter

it's not mine

blood is thicker than water

but maybe I don't want to be baptized in yours 

I won't spend my life

scrubbing red stains out my clothes

I will drink all the bleach

and none of the alcohol

I will throw away pictures

but never punches

and maybe one day I'll forget you

and maybe one day that'll be fine

cause maybe one day

I'll be know as kind

and finally

once i've bleed enough

the new liquid in my veins

won't stain

and will restart this family line