Level 42 - Running In The Family lyrics

Our dad would send us to our room

He'd be the voice of doom, he said that we would thank him later

All day he was solid as a rock

But by eight o'clock we'd be crumbling.

One night my brother Joe and me

Climbed down the family tree that grew outside our bedroom window

We ran though we knew it couldn't last

Running from the past, from things that we were born to be.

Looking back it's so bizarre

It runs in the family

All the things we are.

On the backseat of the car

With Joseph and Emily

We only see so far.

And we all have our daddy's eyes

Looking back it's so bizarre.

Dad rang the officer in charge

A man so large, he barely fit his circumstances

He said two kids out on the street

Were picked up on the beat and in the station.

So there's me with Emily and Joe

And daddy driving home, all heading in the same direction

He knew no matter what the breaks

We'd make the same mistakes, couldn't take his eyes of Joe and me

Looking back it's so bizarre

It runs in the family

All the things we are.

On the backseat of the car

With Joseph and Emily

We only see so far.

And we all have our daddy's eyes

Looking back it's so bizarre

It runs in the family

All the things we are.

Looking back it's so bizarre.

Like a dream within a dream

We're all somewhere in between (Ooohooohooohooo)

Like a drummer plays his drum, like a father, like a son (Ooohooohooohooo)

You're gonna have to face the music, oh yeah (Face the music).

Hey, hey, we keep it running in the family

Hey, hey, we keep on coming in the family.

Looking back it's so bizarre

It runs in the family

All the things we are.

On the backseat of the car

With Joseph and Emily

We only see so far.

'Cause we all have our daddy's eyes

Looking back it's so bizarre, oho, yeah

Running in the family (2x).

And we all have our daddy's eyes

Looking back it's so bizarre, oho, yeah

Running in the family.