Verse 1 You didn't find me You shopped You watched me at a party for a month and liked my table manners You call it a gift You call it a mercy You call it being chosen I was inventory I had a file before I had a name Pre-Chorus And you were so pleased with yourself You were SO pleased with yourself Chorus It's a family business It's a family business Nobody asked to be born into it and nobody's allowed to leave It's a family business It's a family business You get the name You get the debt You get the seat and you say thank you Verse 2 Taught me which fork Taught me which fork for people Taught me to say of course and mean I'll remember this Taught me to be charming at a funeral I arranged Groomed That's the word That's the word you used in the room, out loud, approvingly Pre-Chorus And I said thank you I said THANK YOU Chorus It's a family business It's a family business Nobody asked to be born into it and nobody's allowed to leave It's a family business It's a family business You get the name You get the debt You get the seat and you say thank you Bridge (riff halves in tempo, everything else stays) Here's what they tell you when you say you want out — wait change it from the inside be patient, be useful, be in the room and in a hundred years you'll be the one who decides That's not a promise That's the job offer That's the whole trick That's how every single one of them got old I'm not waiting a hundred years to become the thing I'm describing Final Chorus (lead vocal absent — multitracked backing vocals only, flat, wrong, unaccompanied by any lead) It's a family business It's a family business Nobody asked to be born into it and nobody's allowed to leave It's a family business It's a family business You get the name You get the debt You get the seat and you say thank you thank you thank you (stops on the downbeat)
