P.F. Sloan, Lucinda Williams - Sins of a Family lyrics

She had a bad childhood when
She was very young
And people prejudged her badly
She had a schizophrenic mother whose
Mind was in the gutter
Would have sold herself to the devil gladly
Ah, what a sad environment
A bug-ridden tenement
And when they couldn't pay the rent
It was 'cause her father
Was out gettin' liquor
Ah, the stone's been cast and
Blood is thicker than water

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter
Yeah, the sins of a family
Fall on the daughter
At the age of 16 she has been around
More than any girl over 30
And the high IQ's from the high school news
Were callin' you a product of poor heredity
It's a well known fact
If you fall on your back
You can backtrack failure with inspection
Such few exceptions

Ah, the sins of a family fall on the daughter
Yeah, the sins of a family
Fall on the daughter

Ah, the devil is open to all of us
Heaven selects just a precious few
And it's gonna take all your inside strength
To get Gabriel to make an angel
Out of me and you you know
You can't live a lie and
Then expect when you die
To have your soul in paradise
You know you have to pay
The price like you oughta
And the blood is thicker than water

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter
Yeah, the sins of a family
Fall on the daughter