My Family chords by Steve Wynn

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These are the same streets
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that he walked down
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These are the same roads that he drove
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And these are the ways
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that he went bad
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Down off the highway by
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Ventura
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Blood rolling down by the motel walk
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And that's my blood
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My family's boast is a dead man's ghost,
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but that's not me.
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I  count the times that he chose badly,
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I count the times that I went wrong, it's not the
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same.
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Sometimes I guess that I lose my temper, hate myself,
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and I curse my name, just like him.
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My family's lot is the rifle shots,
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but that's not me.
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Now that he's gone and
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I'm left standing
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Staring in the mirror and I see his face
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And all of the hate and all of the rage
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It almost brings me down
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Sometimes I think that I'm not human,
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I wonder why I never cry, and then I know.
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Blood rolling down from the
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Chevron station,
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I know that none of it was mine, and then
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My family's blood mingles with the mud, but that's not me,
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that's not me, that's not me, that's not me.
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