🎶 Family Portrait

[Bb]Mama please stop cryin'
[Eb]I can't stand the sound
[A#]Your pain is painful and it's
[B7]Tearing me [D]down

[Bb]I hear glasses breakin'
[Eb]As I sit up in my bed
[A#]I told dad you didn't mean
[B7]Those nasty things you [D]said

[Bb]You fight about money
[Eb]'Bout me and my brother
[A#]And this I come home to
[B7]This is [D]my shelter

[Bb]It ain't easy, growin' up in world war 3
[Eb]Never known what love could be
You'll see,
[A#]I don't want love to destroy me
[B7]Like it has done my [D]family

[Bb]Can we work it out (Can we)
[Eb]Can we be a family (Can we)
[A#]I promise I'll be better (I promise)
[B7]Mommy I'll do [D]anything (I'll do anything)
[Bb]Can we work it out?
[Eb]Can we be a family?
[A#]I promise I'll be better
[B7]Daddy please don't [D]leave

[Bb]Daddy please stop yelling (stop)
[Eb]I can't stand the sound (can't stand the sound)
[A#]Make mama stop cryin'
[B7]'Cause I need you [D]around (yeah yeah yeah)
[Bb]My mama she loves you (I know it)
[Eb]No matter what she says it's true
[A#]I know that she hurts you
[B7]But remember I [D]love you too!

[Bb]I ran away today, [Eb]ran
from the noise, ran away (ran away)
[A#]Don't wanna go back to that place
[B7]But don't have no [D]choice, no way (no choice, no way)
[Bb]It ain't easy, growin' up in world war 3
[Eb]Never knowin' what love could be
But I've seen, [A#]I don't want love to destroy me
[B7]Like it did my [D]family

[Bb]Can we work it out (Can we work it out ohhhhhh!)
[Eb]Can we be a family
[A#]I promise I'll be better (I promise)
[B7]Mommy I'll do [D]anything (Anything to keep you here!!!!)
[Bb]Can we work it out
[Eb]Can we be a family
[A#]I promise I'll be better (I promise, I promise)
[B7]Daddy please don't [D]leav

[Bb]In our family portrait (In our family portrait)
[Eb]We look pretty happy (We look pretty happy)
[A#]Let's play pretend, let's act like it
(let's act let's act let's act like it comes)
[B7]Comes [D]naturally
I don't wanna [Bb]have to split the holidays (no no)
I don't want [Eb]two addresses (no no no no nooo)
I don't want a [A#]stepbrother anyways
And I don't want [B7]my mom to have to change [D]her last name!!!!

(Little kidz chorus)
[Bb]In our family portrait
[Eb]We look pretty happy
[A#]We look pretty normal
[B7]Lets go back to [D]that
[Bb]In our family portrait
[Eb]We look pretty happy
[A#]Lets play pretend, act like it
[B7]Goes naturally [D]

[Bb]In our family portrait (Can we work it out)
[Eb]We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
[A#]We look pretty normal (I promise I'll be better)
[B7]Lets go back to that [D](Mommy I'll do anything)
[Bb]In our family portait (Can we work it out)
[Eb]We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
[A#]Lets play pretend (I promise I'll be better)
[B7]Act like it goes [D]naturally, (Daddy please don't leave)

Oh lets go back Oh lets go back that
Remember the days, remember the days

[Bb]In our family portrait (Can we work it out)
[Eb]We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
[A#]We look pretty normal (I promise I'll be better)
[B7]Lets go back to [D]that (Mommy I'll do anything)
[Bb]In our family portait (Can we work it out)
[Eb]We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
[A#]We look pretty normal (I promise I'll be better)
[B7]Please go back to [D]that (Daddy please don't leave)
That!!! ohhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[Bb]Don't leave... don't leave... Daddy don't leave...
[Eb]Don't leave... Daddy don't leave...
[A#]Daddy don't leave.. Daddy
don't leave... Daddy dont leave...
[B7]Don't leave... don't leave...
[D]Turn around please... He's so mad
[Bb] [Eb]Remember that the night you left
[A#]You [B7]took my shining [D]star
[Bb]Daddy don't leave...
[Eb]Daddy don't leave...
[A#]Daddy don't leave...
[B7]Don't leave us here [D]alone

[Bb]Mama'll be nicer
[Eb]I'll be so much better
[A#]I'll tell my brother
[B7]Oh I won't spill the milk [D]at dinner
[Bb]I'll be so much better
[Eb]I'll do everything right
[A#]I'll be your little girl forever
[B7]I'll go to sleep at [D]night

Ooh no Ooh no
Ooh no Ooh⠀