Runs In The Family Lyrics Chords

[F] My friend has [Am] problems with winter and autumn, [F] they give him prescriptions, [Am] they shine bright lights [F] on him, they say it's [Am] genetic, they say he can't help [F] it, they say you can catch it, but sometimes you're born with it!
My friend has plagues, [Am] he gets shakes in the night, [F] and they say that there's no way [Am] that they could have caught it [F] in time, takes its toll on [Am] him, it is [F] traditional, it is [Am] inherited _ [Dm] predisposition!
All day I've been [C] wondering what is inside [F] of me, who can I blame [C] for it?
I [G] say it runs [Dm] in the family, the [F] sanity carries me to [C] such great lengths, to [Bb] open my legs up [Dm] to anyone who'll have me, it runs [F] in the family, I come [C] by it honestly, to [Bb] a few others who know they might [D] feel me _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
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_ [Bb] _ [F] out!
My friends depress, [Am] she's a wreck, she's a mess, [F] they've done all sorts of tests [Am] and they give me a such [F] big headache!
My [Am] grandmother's grandfather's [F] grandmother's Civil War [A] soldiers who sadly [F] infected her, my friend has [Am] maladies, it's endowed [F] with g's, she takes back [Am] to the [F] 17th century, somehow she [Am] manages, in her misery, [F] strips in the TV [Am] and sheds all her fabrics!
[F] And you well, I'm well, well, [Am] I mean I'm in hell, well [F] I still have my health at [Am] least, that's what they tell me, [F] if wellness is this, why [Am] in hell's name is sickness, [F] but business is business, and business runs in [Dm] the family, we tend [F] to the root, either leave out [C] in the flood!
I'm telling [Bb] you cause I just want you [D] to know me, know me and [F] my family, we're [C] wonderful folks who don't [Bb] get too guilty, [Dm] cause you might not be a, [F] me a, me a, [C] me a, me a, [Bb] me a, [Dm] me a, me a, [F] me a, _ me a, me a, [Bb] me a, me a, [F] me a!
Harry have [Am] mercy now look what I've [F] done but don't play me [Am] because I can't tell where I [F] come from
and running is [Am] something that we've always done [F] well and mostly I can't even tell where I'm [Dm] running from
I'm from the [F] pity, from _ responsibility, run from the [G] country and run from this city
[Dm] I can run from a lot, [E] I can run from myself, [F] I can run from my life, I [G] can run into death
I [Dm] can run from it [F] all, I can run till I call, I can run for me all
And [G] when I'm with the girls I [Dm] can run using every last ounce of energy
I can't hide, [G] I can't hide, I can't hide from [Dm] someone knowing that I didn't come here [C] for it
under [Bb] the Sun light don't [Dm] tell my family, don't tell my family they'll never [F] forgive me
They say [C] I'm crazy, but that [Bb] wouldn't [Dm] dye anything in new and shut me up
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