Family Tree

See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family Hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family Hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree I was taught one day in another life You'll meet a nice boy and become a wife He'll put food up on the table And he'll always be your faithful And you'll always be stable And you'll never be ungrateful You taught me different definitions 'Cause fucked up seeds carry on tradition I won't become your new addition Baby listen, baby listen The truth is that my roots they come from the dark But the more that I loved you the more that I learned I'm not gonna fight what I know I deserve Know what I deserve And it's easy now to see Apple doesn't fall far from a tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family Hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree (At 23 she was earning her own living, and living her own life) (And in her time, being a batchelor girl isn't the social disgrace it was when our parents called them "spinsters") Maybe I'm just too jaded Probably way too young to think That it's so complicated Too young to think so into things But, no, no, no, no See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me From the way I see you treat your family, family, family Oh, hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised How I let you stay and grow on me I need better than your family tree See, apple doesn't fall far from the tree (oh no) Should've known the way that you'd be lovin' me (loving me) From the way I see you treat your family Oh hey, how you couldn't help the way that you were raised (Were you raised) How I let you stay and grow on me (on me) I need better than your family tree