Family song lyrics

Artist  : Bruce springsteen 
Song : Family song
 
Well ya know when you’re young,
There’s such a distance between you and your
family.
Just can’t see things from the same point of
view.

Papa wants a lawyer and mama she wants an
author,
And all you want is for them to want you.

Well, I saw lot of bad signs and we had some real
bad timesback on the east coast.
And I guess you could say it took california to
bring us close.
There was a lot of hard livin’ and some stone
cold women on the east coast.
And I saw my papa turn away when I need him the
most.
And california, she’s an angel.
Lo, so heavenly dressed
And the pacific she’s a woman
The lord must have loved her best.
I got a california rainbow to come give them
thunder clouds a rest
And the mountain is my friend now, she put me to
her test
Well you know every father has dreams and schemes
fo his own kid.
And dreaming it ain’t been declaired no capital
crime
But I just hope when I grow up to have my own
kids
I’ll love them all I can and let ’em make their
own minds
Now you know how a mother can hold the son
through understanding.
And my father he once held me close by crying.
Whoa, and my mama’s love it don’t ever leave me
standing.
And papa’s love it just leaves me smiling.
Whoa, and my mama she’s a rainbow,
Gotta see hen on sunday when she’s dressed
Whoa, and my papa he’s a good man, he gives me
and mama his best.
Whoa, my mama she’s a rainbow, come to give them
thunder clouds a rest.
And my family is my friend now california put us
through her test.