Elliott Murphy - How's the Family lyrics

How's the wife with the husband Who doesn't understand Why she starts to cry each morning And the coldness in her hands And the cold cold ballerina Whose thoughts of love and life Have split her down the middle Till she's cracked like walked on ice And the prince of fifteen years With no roof over his life Cause his parents don't know of his meaning Or his needle and his knife And how's the family How's the family How's the tired widowed grandmother Who has lost half of her life And the overweight aunt from nowhere Who can cook but is no wife And she thinks its so disgusting About the movies that are made And she sleeps with just a pillow And a memory that fades Of a husband who had tried To do everything so right Till his heart screamed and stopped beating As he made love one last night And how's the family How's the family How's the boy and the girl And the lives that lie ahead And from two they join as one They say we'll love till we are dead And the babies come and grow And the mothers laugh and cry And the men know who they're working for And what's more they know why Cause its happy to be said When tears can laugh at pain And if you love the thought of love Your birth will never end and how's the family - how's the family