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Family Tree

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lyrics

There’s a note on the wall, little note on the wall
clean up after yourself, clean up after us all.
There’s a ghost in the hall little ghost in the walls,
they feed of our belief in what we cannot see.

And the family tree it is haunting me, live of the land be a family man, do the best you can only work with your hands, fall into their ways.

Salt mines have made our town a decay
now they control what is made the imports the exports, the trade.
Salt mines have shaped our town like its clay,
and workers can’t escape when family depends on pay.

When I was five years old I was on my daddy’s lap
pulling levers on the train
to make the train slow down make the train speed up
make the train go back
and now than I’m older I can see what needs to change
this is a dead end town and a dead end job
that my father had arranged.

The family tree still surrounds me,
I gave into its demands now I’m a family man
and I’m working with my hands when the train breaks down
I gave into its ways.

There’s a ghost in the hall
little ghost in the walls,
they feed of our belief in what we cannot see,
God knows I believe in what I cannot see.

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from Family Tree, released August 3, 2012
Simon Dowling (vocals, guitars)
Andy Walsh (wall of sound)

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