Nuclear Family

[Adam WarRock] This right here is my heart [Verse 1] All i wanted was a chance in life And so it started with a man and wife Maybe met too young But he took a hand slid a ring on And he made a promise he could never turn back on That's when it all went wrong; the second the last song played The cans dragged on the concrete They took a look at each other and saw a road That opened up from in between the place Where their palms meet and it was all sweet Maybe five maybe ten years Maybe she shed a couple tears He drank too much; put her in a hospital bed That's the place where the scars got revealed Up next, was like a couple a kids Maybe a dog and a house and a fence with a tire swing Swaying in the sunset; he's perspiring Shoveling snow from the blizzard And the fire keeps burning Just as long as the last flame flickers And her last name shifted though she never seemed bitter And she carved a life in the coldest of winters And the bad times didn't mean nothing She remembered when she was a little girl She used to dream of this The magazines she clipped and saw her friends first Hold hands when they jumped off the cliff And it don't often miss in her judgment of the universe Oh my look at what time does; it changes your mind up And makes you think about what you want from it Times moves life; does it ever stop? And you think you got something In reality is nothing with Love and understanding; patience and virtue A little bit of crazy cause people gonna hurt you Don't let life take the best years away from you Is what i'm telling you, is what i'm telling you [Hook] And i don't really need to know know know How it all pans out All i know that love's not enough And i'ma do without i'ma do without I'm looking for that nuclear family Cause i really don't know know know If i can ever get the happy ending Sometimes, well that's the way that life goes [Verse 2] Well, maybe in another life (yeah) I could have given you all that you wanted The same as i saw before in my youth Though i didn't know the truth Now i'm older and i get it That everyone's as messed up as us Domestic violence and the words that kill The prozac and zoloft hands holding the pills And the kids from the broken glass houses still They feel the pain; blood lost and spilled Check that veneer what we hear from the closed doors Broken plates that shattered on the floor And the yells and the screams were comfort Silence was deafening Headphones was necessary then Drowning out our own false imagery Pass that Norman Rockwell disease From one generation to the next and we don't know Why i still wanna stay and i don't go Just a wife two kids and a dog Man my life's so far from that And it's hard cause i used to want a house in the hills With a car right next to the minivan in the garage Now i know that i'm bound for those lonely days With my headphones on it kinda covers me That i'll never have a nuclear family Just a wife, two kids and a dog [Hook] And i don't really need to know know know How it all pans out All i know that love's not enough So i'ma do without i'ma do without I'm looking for that nuclear family Cause i really don't know know know If i can ever get the happy ending Sometimes, well that's the way that life goes Say i am Somebody! Well i'm just glad that i've got someone who loves me For the kids from the families that never made sense With the tears and blood spilled to pay the rent Just hope y'all know you got family here So trust me, yeah