Family Matters

Album: SE9 Part 1 (2025)
Charted: 5
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  • You've never worn these shoes
    Don't mean my New Balance in blue
    Raised on pure dysfunction
    But sleep I'll never lose
    Guess you'll never notice
    'Cause I always keep it neat
    Got old wounds and fresh ones
    But you won't see me bleed

    Bitching 'bout problems
    Like they're stuck on your lips
    You're so dramatic
    I could tell you 'bout me
    But you won't understand
    Get no caller IDs
    It's the police again
    No pills to be out
    But there's no kids around
    Death knocked down my door
    Walked in unannounced
    A line meant two things
    Since I was like 5
    Starved 'cause his words
    But at least I'm alive
    It is what it is
    You call it traumatic
    But It is what it is
    It's just family matters

    There's times I can't keep focus
    'Cause they're all fucking raging
    A spliff stops my explosion
    Bad habits I'm not facing
    At school, weed was my perfume
    Then my brothers drugs got harder
    It became substance abuse
    So he's a stupid bastard

    Bitching 'bout problems
    Like they're stuck on your lips
    You're so dramatic
    I could tell you 'bout me
    But you won't understand
    Get no caller IDs
    It's the police again
    No pills to be out
    But there's no kids around
    Death knocked down my door
    Walked in unannounced
    A line meant two things
    Since I was like 5
    Starved 'cause his words
    But at least I'm alive
    It is what it is
    You call it traumatic
    But It is what it is
    It's just family matters

    I don't eat, I feed
    That's who I am
    You take the piss
    Baby, I burn
    My fire's hot
    Yeah, I'm fucked up
    But you haven't my family
    So you're in luck
    You haven't met my family
    Oh, lucky you haven't met my family
    'Cause I'm fucked up
    You haven't met-
    (I'll take it they're fucked up, not me) Writer/s: Benji Gibson, Luis Navidad, Skye Newman
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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