Lyrics

1st Verse:
Cause it's a family affair
Don't mean you always should care
Especially when they're negative
Leaving you in despair
Parents competing with children
Acting like one of their peers
Simply rejecting the fact
That they're the reason they're here
And when the parents are old
Demand their children to share
All of their time and their money
Because they're thinking it's fair
As they provided you life
It's only right you should care
Regardless whether or not
They raised you and they were there
So we're related by blood
So by default we should love
Taught from the very beginning
To never place one above
The structure rooted from birth
Placing your family first
Embrace the good and the bad
Never to question the worth
Because regardless the matter
Or situation occurred
Family will always be there
Your problems never deferred
And when it's all said and done
Family is solely the one
That will protect you from all
Encounters surely to come
But is this always the truth?
Does family always come through?
And if your answer is yes
You need to show us the proof
You see it time after time
Portray to be by your side
You put in all of your trust
They stab you right in the spine
Whether you're blood or you're not
People will naturally plot
And if it's family it's worse
Considered all that you got
You tend to put up with more
Absorb their negative ways
When this is counterproductive
And we continue to pay

2nd Verse:
Cause it's a family affair
Don't mean you always should care
Especially when they're negative
Leaving you in despair
Parents competing with children
Acting like one of their peers
Simply rejecting the fact
That they're the reason they're here
And when the parents are old
Demand their children to share
All of their time and their money
Because they're thinking it's fair
As they provided you life
It's only right you should care
Regardless whether or not
They raised you and they were there
We bring a child in the world
Whether we meant it to be
Children in need of our nurture
Dependent naturally
And this remains through their youth
Attentiveness is the key
We as their parents provide
But you continue to see
Parents competing with children
Over affection and love
Expecting children to give
To go beyond and above
To make them feel of importance
Demand emotion and praise
But when the effort is short
Parents confused and enraged
Why are we losing perspective
Of the relations we have
Children did not make the choice
To be alive or to ask
For their particular parents
Ones who will love them to death
But we expect this of children
Illogic thought at its best
All we can do as a parent
Give children all that we have
And if it's love they return
We should be grateful and glad
But even if they reject it
Never acknowledge our effort
Know that we gave it our best
To make their life for the better

3rd Verse:
Cause it's a family affair
Don't mean you always should care
Especially when they're negative
Leaving you in despair
Parents competing with children
Acting like one of their peers
Simply rejecting the fact
That they're the reason they're here
And when the parents are old
Demand their children to share
All of their time and their money
Because they're thinking it's fair
As they provided you life
It's only right you should care
Regardless whether or not
They raised you and they were there
Parents are elder in age
Living the rest of their days
Reflecting life and the moments
That will define them in ways
In which entitlement surfaces
And reality strays
Thinking the world is indebted
Children specific should pay
Make sure they're living in comfort
No matter what it will take
Whether distributing money
Or the providing of space
Presenting children with problems
In which they never should face
Parents took care of the children
So there should be no debate
But hold up, wait just a second
Why don't we cut to the chase
Parents suppose to provide
For all the children they make
So why expect in return
For children somehow to take
Their time and money exclusively
And devote to their sake
Especially if they're children
Who act as parents as well
They're now responsible for
Children so why should they fail
If children show no support
To parents elder in age
They have the right to this choice
No matter what people say
Cause it's a family affair
Don't mean you always should care
Especially when they're negative
Leaving you in despair
Parents competing with children
Acting like one of their peers
Simply rejecting the fact
That they're the reason they're here
And when the parents are old
Demand their children to share
All of their time and their money
Because they're thinking it's fair
As they provided you life
It's only right you should care
Regardless whether or not
They raised you and they were there