F.A.M.I.L.Y. (For A Man I Liked Yesterday) - The Beat'ONE

F.A.M.I.LY (For A Man I Liked Yesterday) Album: LIFE IN RED MOTION (LIRM) Lyrics by Red Kellin (The Beat'ONE) Hot Chili season 4 - episode 11 _______ Lyrics F.A.M.I.L.Y. (For A Man I Liked Yesterday) Intro] I don’t think you can tell anything But lies I don’t think you can give anything But scars . [Verse 1] Disrespect was your way of speaking Dishonesty, your way of breathing Discomfort lived inside your hands Like love was something you could ban . You thought you could touch the walls Of my childhood and turn it into halls Cold enough to make me leave Then wonder why I couldn’t breathe . [Pre-Chorus] (melodic piano) You thought you could Do what you pleased to me You thought you could Drain my bones and walk free . You thought you could Wreck me, leave me messy Then call it discipline Then call it family . [Chorus] I didn’t mean to hate you that way Tonight, I’m singing For a man I liked yesterday Someone I almost called F.A.M.I.L.Y . I know I wasn’t good enough Back when I tried to call you Dad But I found out I was never meant To call you Daddy . [Verse 2] How dare you aim for happiness When everything you touch withers? How dare you beg for gratefulness When every word you spit still triggers? . You dressed your damage up as care Poured your despair into the air Then blamed me for the poison there Like I had asked to be your heir . [Pre-Chorus] (dramatic piano) Because you wanted it I had to bear with it? Doesn’t it feel filthy Standing in your shoes? . You made me want to destroy The shape you carved in my soul But I won’t let your shadow Be the house I call home . [Chorus] I didn’t mean to hate you that way Tonight, I’m singing For a man I liked yesterday Someone I almost called F.A.M.I.L.Y . I know I wasn’t good enough Back when I tried to call you Dad But I found out I was never meant To call you Daddy . [Bridge] (low and venomous) I stopped asking myself How did she love a hooligan? How did she fall For a man like you? . But I’m not holy I’m not clean I’ve kissed my share Of broken things . I’ve loved punks I’ve loved bruises Called the fire home And called it music . So maybe I know more than I should How a heart can bleed and call it good . [Verse 3] You kept pushing me away Like my love made me obscene Like the son I tried to be Was something you could not redeem . You shut the door So I learned to leave You broke the name So I learned to breathe . And maybe that’s the cruelest grace Maybe that’s the holy twist You were never home to me But you led me back to him . [Final Chorus] (chords, piano and strings) You kept pushing me away Tonight, I’m singing For a man I liked yesterday Someone I almost called F.A.M.I.L.Y . I know I wasn’t good enough Back when I tried to call you Dad But thank God I was never meant To call you Daddy . [Outro] For the father I never had in you For the house I left behind For the man who saw my face And called me his in time . F.A.M.I.L.Y For a man I liked yesterday F.A.M.I.L.Y I bury the war But I won’t bless your name F.A.M.I.L.Y