Sins Of A Family - P.F. Sloan, Lucinda Williams

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