《Family Grave(Demo)》歌词

[00:00:00] Family Grave - Jake Thackray

[00:00:08] I’ve got uncles and aunties and

[00:00:09] Cousins and nephews and sisters-in-law

[00:00:12] Our family swarms with them; it teems;

[00:00:14] They are thicker than flies

[00:00:16] Sisters and brothers and cousins

[00:00:17] And daughters and mothers galore

[00:00:19] The only time when all of us

[00:00:21] Meet is when one of us dies

[00:00:23] At the grave at the grave

[00:00:25] At the family family grave

[00:00:27] Whenever you go there’s

[00:00:29] Always more arrive

[00:00:31] At the grave at the grave

[00:00:33] At the family family grave

[00:00:35] For every dead one there are

[00:00:37] Dozens of us alive live live

[00:00:39] Dead but there are dozens of us alive

[00:00:50] Take a family christening well

[00:00:52] Nobody goes to those

[00:00:54] And a family wedding more often

[00:00:55] Than not’s an all ticket affair

[00:00:58] But a funeral’s free for all you can

[00:01:00] Go in the same old clothes

[00:01:02] No need to buy him a present

[00:01:03] So all of the family’s there

[00:01:06] You sit in the chapel and whisper

[00:01:07] And meditate over the stiff

[00:01:09] You never speak ill of him – especially

[00:01:11] If you were close -

[00:01:13] But: "What a good family man and a

[00:01:15] Wonderful friend " even if

[00:01:17] The defunct was a pain in the arse

[00:01:19] And he died of a dose

[00:01:21] At the grave at the grave at the family

[00:01:24] Family grave

[00:01:25] Whenever you go there’s always more arrive

[00:01:29] At the grave at the grave at the

[00:01:31] Family family grave

[00:01:32] For every dead one there are dozens

[00:01:34] Of us alive live live

[00:01:37] Dead but there are dozens of us alive

[00:01:48] There are those of course who just stand

[00:01:50] Aghast and just gawp

[00:01:52] They cannot manage to cry – and there’s

[00:01:54] Others who cannot refrain:

[00:01:56] Willy-nilly they bellow and howl

[00:01:58] At the drop of a corpse

[00:02:00] In a couple of weeks they’ve forgotten

[00:02:01] The poor bastard’s name

[00:02:04] Then there are those of course who

[00:02:05] Turn up and can then hardly wait

[00:02:07] For the coffin to drop and the vicar to

[00:02:09] Stop the and the sobbing subside

[00:02:11] And then they are barely a blur as

[00:02:13] They sprint for the cemetery gates

[00:02:15] To go get their hands on the money

[00:02:16] The food or the widow’s backside

[00:02:19] Bt the grave by the grave

[00:02:21] By the family family grave

[00:02:23] Whenever you go there’s

[00:02:24] Always more arrive

[00:02:27] At the grave at the grave

[00:02:29] At the family family grave

[00:02:30] For every dead one there are

[00:02:32] Dozens of us alive live live

[00:02:35] Dead but there are dozens of us alive

[00:02:46] There are one or two "do"s turn out

[00:02:48] Disappointingly in the extreme

[00:02:50] Where the booze is rough and the grub

[00:02:51] Is duff and no flowers at all

[00:02:54] And the mother embarrasses you with a

[00:02:55] Sudden hysterical scream

[00:02:58] Where the coffin you came to see off

[00:03:00] Is pathetically small

[00:03:02] We do the round of the family faces

[00:03:03] And pay our respects

[00:03:05] The "We’ll have to be going " "How nice "

[00:03:07] "How sad " The "Thankings you "

[00:03:09] We are studying form and weighing up

[00:03:11] Who it is going to be next

[00:03:13] To go under the slab Whose turn to

[00:03:15] Pay for the very next "do"

[00:03:17] Bt the grave by the grave by the

[00:03:19] Family family grave

[00:03:21] Whenever you go there’s always more arrive

[00:03:25] At the grave at the grave at the

[00:03:27] Family family grave

[00:03:29] For every dead one there are

[00:03:30] Dozens of us alive live live

[00:03:33] Dead but there are dozens of us alive