Family Lyrics - New Model Army

Joey puts her make-up on really well 

She looks cool in the flashing lights 

And all the boys gossip about the shape of her legs 

On these muddled up and drunken nights 

And if it's all got to end up between the sheets 

She can coo like a virgin dove 

But really she just doesn't want to be alone 

And if you want you can call that love 

M6 southbound roadside cafe on a wild wet and windy night 

There's a kid in a sleeping bag huddled in a corner, trying to beg a light 

He's got mum and dad tattooed on his arm 

From when he thought that that would make it alright 

He's got hope and fear on his young boy's face 

Another innocent taking flight, saying 

Give me some place that I can go 

Where I don't have to justify myself 

Swimming out alone against this tide 

Looking for family looking for tribe 

They said go, get out, we've got our own lives to lead 

Now that water is thicker than blood 

And every house is divided into single flats 

With their very own little welcome rug 

The shopping mall it is teeming with life 

Fighting for the goodies on the shelf 

But there's those funny old people on the escalators 

Talking to themselves, saying 

Give me some place that I can go 

Where I don't have to justify myself 

Swimming out alone against this tide 

Looking for family looking for tribe 

Well I survive on my own for a while or so 

Upon a whim or a bottle of wine 

Just trying to make sense of these new surroundings 

I only changed my name a couple of times 

Please take me back Joey, I'm really sorry 

Can we try to make a happy home? 

But she's gone with someone else and they're starting a family 

Trying for a clan of their own, so 

Give me some place that I can go 

Where I don't have to justify myself 

Swimming out alone against this tide 

Looking for family looking for tribe