Family Lyrics - The Rolling Stones

1 Here's father, his heart screwed on

2 Yes, here he's got it I'm sure

3 'Cause he lost his life in an accident

4 Found his heart in the man next door

5 What exactly's gonna happen

6 When they do transplant the brain

7 Will my borrowed brain still compute the same

8 Or will my daughter suffer so much more

9 Here comes the girl, she's got her head screwed on

10 But it ain't screwed on right

11 Her ambition is to be a prostitute

12 But the breaks just weren't right

13 What exactly's gonna happen, tell me

14 When her father finds out

15 That his virgin daughter has bordello dreams

16 And that he's the one she wants to try out

17 Yeah

18 There's ma, she's living dangerously

19 It's a cinch she'll try it anything twice

20 She thinks she can run right to the whirlpool's edge

21 And stop herself just in time

22 What exactly's gonna happen

23 When she finally fizzles out

24 The lovers will just be sucked into

25 To see what the colours of death are all about

26 Here's the son, has his legs a-screwed on

27 Yeah, they're screwed on pretty tight

28 But his brain is loose and it ain't no use

29 He's already lost the fight

30 What exactly's gonna happen

31 When he's finally realized

32 That he can't play his guitar like E.G. Jim

33 Or write St. Augustine if he tried

34 That's what happens

35 When a family finds out

36 That they've been in orbit now for a thousand years

37 And need a thousand more to climb out