Wae Yer Family - Glass Tiger, Johnny Reid

When I was a boy, all piss and vinegar

Life spoke of simple things

Stick or stone, an old football

A shoe laced up with string

In a secondhand world of joy

With your own ones through the noise

In a wee house filled with kith and kin

How we would laugh, how we would sing

That’s the way life should be

When you’re family

That’s the way life should be

Here we are now in the days of our lives

Three steps, and hey you’re both gone

Forgetting how to take a moment

And breathe the air all slow

I don’t call you 'cause you don’t have time

It’s a hill that we still have to climb

But if we believe in our heart of hearts

When love comes first, we’ll show the fire

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

Oh, that’s the way life should be

Oh, wae yer family

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

(We are the ones who make the claim)

(We are the ones who live to shine)

(We are the ones who walk in shadows of those who came before)

(And now we share this love)

(Let's raise a glass to those we love)

(So here’s to you and yours and my mad mother)

(For they are many and all that I have got)

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

Oh, that’s the way life should be

Oh, wae yer family

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

Yeah, wae your family

Sing out son

That’s the way life should be

I’d kill things Johnny

Wae yer family

That’s the way life should be

Wae yer family

That’s the way that life should be…