On Coming From A Broken Home

Album: I'm New Here (2010)
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  • I want to make this a special tribute
    To a family that contradicts the concepts
    Heard the rules, but wouldn't accept
    And womenfolk raised me
    And I was full-grown before I knew
    I came from a broken home

    Sent to live with my grandma down south
    When my uncles was leaving
    And my grandfather had just left for heaven
    They said and as every-ologist would certainly note
    I had no strong male figure, right?
    But Lily Scott was absolutely not your mail-order, room-service
    Typecast, black grandmother
    I was moved in with her
    Temporarily, just until things were patched
    Till this was patched and till that was patched
    Until I became at 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
    The patch that held Lily Scott who held me and like them four
    I become one more and I loved her from the absolute marrow of my bones
    And we was holdin' on
    I come from a broken home
    She had more than the five senses
    She knew more than books could teach
    And raised everyone she touched just a little bit higher
    And all around her there was a natural sense
    As though she sensed what the stars say, what the birds say
    What the wind and and the clouds say
    A sensual soul and self, that African sense
    And she raised me like she raised four of her own
    And I was hurt and scared and shocked when Lily Scott left
    Suddenly one night
    And they sent a limousine from heaven to take her to God
    If there is one
    So I knew she had gone
    And I came from a broken home Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Beth L from NashvilleWho wrote the gorgeous, heartbreaking lyrics to Kansas' song "Broken Home"? It sounds like Steve Walsh's mentality; but, of course, he & Kerry did occasiinally co-write. Unless, of course, it was religious prosyletizing which Steve most intelligently avoided at all cost!
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