I heard the battle raging on the other side of the wall   Buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all   Every night when I hear you, I dream of breaking down your door   An avenging knight in shining armor to rescue you from it all   From the family business      When I see you in the supermarket   With sunglasses in the shade   Averting your eyes from the staring questions   How were those bruises made   It's family business      Children clutching to your legs   They've got so much they want to say   But daddy's sitting home drunk again   So they bite their lips and pray      And daddy don't like no strangers prying   And noses in his private affairs   And if anyone asks from the social   Well, you fell down the stairs   It's family business      So I'll become an accessory   And I don't have an alibi   To the victim lying on my doorstep   The only way I could justify   It's family business      'Cause every day it's getting harder   Try to see, to go away   To all the people that surround you   You have to sit down and explain      To be the writing on the wall inside   To be the pledge you call your own   And if you run into the day   You sure, you know you'll find a home   You sure, you know you'll find a home      The traffic lights shine upon   And the broken home   Everyone could be so far away   And the white lines lead the way      The writing on the wall   They're carving out the martyrs      Could've been the same this way   Could've been the same this way   Tell them I'm the same today   We could have been much younger   It could have been much longer      Until the real time too far   You run away today   Tomorrow, you take away the time   You took away a mind      Something to the light she said   Everyone's burning   We could have been much younger