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Runs In The Family

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Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer is an American vocalist, pianist and performance artist, best known for her work as one half of The Dresden Dolls. Born in 1976, she grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She attended Lexington High School, where she was very involved in the drama department. Amanda sometimes has Lexington High School students perform drama pieces at her shows. Before she was in the Dresden Dolls, she was in a band called "Amanda Palmer and the Void".

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my friend has problems with winter and autumn
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they give him prescriptions they shine bright lights on him
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they say its genetic they say he cant help it
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they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it

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my friend has blight he gets shakes in the night
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and they say there is no way that they could have caught it in
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time takes its toll on him it is traditional
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it is inherited predisposition

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all day i've been wondering what is inside of me who can i blame for it
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i say

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it runs in the family this famine that carries me
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to such great lengths to open my legs
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up to anyone who'll have me
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it runs in the family i come by it honestly
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do what you want cause who knows it might fill me up

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my friends depressed she's a wreck she's a mess
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they've done all sorts of tests and they guess it has something to do with her grandmother
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grandfathers grandmother civil war soldiers who
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badly infected her
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my friend has maladies rickets and allergies that she dates back to the 17th century
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somehow she manages - in her misery - strips in the city
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and shares all her best tricks with

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me well i'm well well i mean i'm in hell well i still have my health
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at least that's what they tell me
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if wellness is this what in hells name is sickness
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but business is business

and business

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runs in the family we tend to bruise easily
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bad in the blood i'm telling you 'cause
i just want you to know me
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know me and my family
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we're wonderful folks
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but don't get too close to me cause you might knock me up

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mary have mercy now look what i've done
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but don't blame me because i cant tell where i come from
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and running is something that we've always done
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well and mostly i can't even tell what i'm running from

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i run from their pity
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from responsibility
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run from the country
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and run from the city

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i can run from the law
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i can run from myself
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i can run for my life
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i can run into debt

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i can run from it all
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i can run 'till i'm gone
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i can run for the office
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and run from the cause

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i can run using every last ounce of energy
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i cannot
i cannot
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i cannot
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run from my family
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they're hiding inside me
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corpses on ice
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come in if you'd like
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but just don't tell my family
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they'd never forgive me
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they'll say that i'm crazy
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but they would say anything if it would
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shut me up