Family Portrait

Mama please stop cryin'I can't stand the soundYour pain is painful and it'sTearing me downI hear glasses breakingAs I sit up in my bedI told God you didn't meanThose nasty things you saidYou fight about moneyAbout me and my brotherAnd this I come home toThis is my shelterIt ain't easy, growin' up in WW3Never knowin' what love could beYou'll see, I don't want love to destroy meLike it has done my familyCan we work it outCan we be a familyI promise I'll be betterMommy I'll do anythingCan we work it outCan we be a familyI promise I'll be betterDaddy please don't leaveDaddy please stop yellingI can't stand the soundMake mama stop cryin''Cause I need you aroundMy mama she loves youNo matter what she says is trueI know that she hurts youBut remember I love you too!I ran away today, ran from the noiseRan away (ran away)Don't wanna go back to that placeBut don't have no choice, no wayIt ain't easy, growin' up in WW3Never knowin' what love could beBut I've seen, I don't want love to destroy meLike it has done my familyIn our family portraitWe look pretty happyLet's play pretend, let's act like itComes naturallyI don't wanna have to split the holidays I don't want two addressesI don't want a stepbrother anywayAnd I don't want my mom to have to change her last name!Mama'll be nicerI'll be so much betterI'll tell my brotherI won't spill the milk at dinnerI'll be so much betterI'll do everything rightI'll be your little girl foreverI'll go to sleep at nightDaddy don't leave... daddy don't leave