Family

By Dolly Parton-Carl Perkins

FAMILY

When it's family, you forgive them

for they know not what they do.

When it's family, you accept them, 'cause 

you have no choice but to.

When it's family, they're a mirror of the

worst and best in you.

And they always put you to the test and you

always try to do your best,

And just pray for God to do the rest,

When it's family.

Some are preachers, some are gay,

some are addicts, drunks and strays,

but not a one is turned away,

When it's family.

Some are luck, others ain't,

 Some are fighters, others faint.

Winners, losers, sinners, saints,

It's all family.

When it's family you trust them and your heart's an open door.

When it's family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

When it's family, you love and hate and

take, then give some more.

Somehow you justify mistakes, try to find some better way

to solve the problems day to day, 

In the family.

You take the trouble as it comes and 

love them more than anyone.

Good or bad or indifferent, 

it's still family.

You choose your lovers, you pick your friends

not the family that you're in.

They'll be with you 'til the end,

'cause it's family.

and when it's family, you forgive them for they

know not what they do.

When it's family, they're a mirror of the 

worst and best in you.

When it's family, when it's family,

Let me be all that I should be to the family.