What Family Really Means

Song Description

Contemporary country song where a child from a dysfunctional family questions what family really means.

Song Length 4:03 Genre Classical - Contemporary, Classical - General
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Content, Poignant Subject Dysfunctional Family, Loving Marriage
Similar Artists George Strait, Brooks & Dunn Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

"What Family Really Means"

Picture this, a little boy
Trying to go to sleep
His daddy's gone, his momma drinks
He lies awake and weeps

And as a bottle crashes on the kitchen floor
He wraps his arms around his knees
And in his mind he hears the words
He sometimes wants to scream

Chorus:
I want to know what family really means
Is it blood? Is it love? Or something in between
I want to feel what other people feel
I want to know what family really means

At seventeen the boy left home
To redefine his life
He got a job in Tupelo
At a warehouse working nights

There he met a girl who changed his world
And he asked her to be his wife
As she softly smiled to his surprise
Yes was her reply

Chorus:
I want to know what family really means
Is it blood? Is it love? Or something in between
I want to feel what other people feel
I want to know what family really means

Bridge:
Now I'm thirty five, yeah that little boy was me
And I thank my wife for our new life and all she's given me

Chorus:
Cause now I know what family really means
It's more than blood, it's pure love
That's what she's shown to me
Now I feel what other people feel
Now I know what family really means

Now I know what family really means
It's more than blood, it's pure love
That's what she's shown to me
Now I feel what other people feel
Now I know what family really means
Now I know what family really means

Lyrics Jason Gibeau Music Jason Gibeau
Performance The Gator Hole Recording Studio Nashville, TN
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