Family Portrait

Chords

Standard

Am - Dm - C - Dm - E  (2x)

 

      Am                                  Dm

1. Momma please stop cryin, I can?t stand the sound,

C                                             Dm             E

    your pain is painful and it?s tearin' me down.

  Am                                         Dm

    I hear glasses breaking as I sit up in my bed,

   C                                                  Dm                       E

    I told dad you didn?t mean those nasty things you said. 

 

   Am                                     - Dm   

2.     You fight about money,         ?bout me and my brother, 

C                                         - Dm                    E

    and this I come home to,         this is my shelter. 

Am                                                       Dm

    It ain?t easy growin? up in World War III, 

                                                                     C

    never knowin? what love could be, you?ll see, 

                                                     Dm                          E

    I don?t want love to destroy me like it has done my family. 

 

                   Am                                 Dm

    Can we work it out? Can we be a family? 

                               C                     Dm             E

    I promise I?ll be better, Mommy, I?ll do anything. 

                  Am                                  Dm

    Can we work it out? Can we be a family? 

                               C                     Dm                          - E

    I promise I?ll be better, Daddy, please don?t leave ! 

 

    Am                                   Dm   

3. Daddy please stop yellin?, I can?t stand the sound,

C                                              Dm                 E

    make mama stop cryin?, cuz  I need you around 

Am                                       - Dm   

    My mama, she loves you,       no matter what she says, its true. 

C                                                     Dm                 E

    I know that she hurt you, but remember I love you, too 


    Am                            Dm   

4.      I ran away today, ran from the noise, ran away, 

C                                                              Dm                              E

   don?t wanna go back to that place, but don?t have no choice, no way. 

Am                                                        Dm   

    It ain?t easy growin? up in World War III, 

                                                                           C

    never knowin? what love could be, well I've seen, 

                                                     Dm                E

    I don?t want love to destroy me like it did my family. 

 

                   Am                                 Dm

    Can we work it out? Can we be a family? 

                               C                     Dm             E

    I promise I?ll be better, Mommy, I?ll do anything. 

                  Am                                  Dm

    Can we work it out? Can we be a family? 

                               C                     Dm                          - E

    I promise I?ll be better, Daddy, please don?t leave ! 

 

   Am                             Dm

5. In our family portrait, we look pretty happy, 

C                                                     Dm                 E  

    let?s play pretend, let's act like it comes naturally. 

                          Am                                                        Dm

    I don?t wanna have to split the holidays, I don?t want two addresses, 

                             C

    I don?t want a step-brother anyways, 

                                      Dm                                      E

    and I don?t want my mom to have to change her last name. 

 

          Am                               Dm

In our family portrait we look pretty happy, 

                 C                 Dm                      E         

we look pretty normal, let's go back to that. 

          Am                               Dm

In our family portrait we look pretty happy, 

          C                            Dm                  E  

let's play pretend, act like it goes naturally.    

 

(repeat these 4 lines 3 times)

 
Am                              - Dm

     Daddy don?t leave,           Daddy don?t leave, 

C                                Dm                 E

    Daddy don?t leave, turn around please !

Am                               Dm                         

     Remember that the night you left 

            C                      Dm   - E

    you took my shining star? 

                Am                          Dm            

    Daddy don?t leave,  Daddy don?t leave, 

                 C                                      Dm              - E  

    Daddy don?t leave, don't leave us here alone ! 

 

                       Am              Dm

    Mom will be nicer, I?ll be so much better, 

                      C                           Dm                   E  

    I?ll tell my brother, oh, I won?t spill the milk at dinner. 

            Am                               Dm

    I?ll be so much better, I?ll do everything right ,

                     C                            Dm                  E  

    I?ll be your little girl forever, I?ll go to sleep at night. 

    Am - Dm - C - Dm - E   

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