Lucinda Williams - Sins of a Family lyrics

She had a bad childhood While She was very young So don't judge her too badly She had a schizophrenic mother Who worked in the gutter Would have sold herself To the devil gladly What a sad environment A bug ridden tenement And when they couldn't pay the rent It was 'cause her father was out Getting sicker Oh, the stone's been cast And blood's thicker than water And the sins of the family fall on the daughter All the sins of the family fall on the daughter At the age of 16 she had been around more Than any girl about 30 And the high I. Q. 's who condemned her Knew she was a product of poor heredity It's a fictitious fact when you fall on your back You can backtrack failure with inspection without exception All the sins of the family fall on the daughter All the sins of the family fall on the daughter Oh the devil is open to all of us Heaven selects just a precious few It takes an inside pull to get gabriel make an angel out of you One can't live A lie then expect to die With a soul in paradise You know you gotta pay the price Like you oughtta Blood's thicker than water And the sins of the family fall on the daughter All the sins of the family fall on the daughter