Wae Yer Family (from "31" compilation)

When I was a boy, all piss and vinegar
Life spoke of simple things
Stick or stone, an old football
A shoe laced up with string

In a secondhand world of joy
With your own ones through the noise
In a wee house filled with kith and kin
How we would laugh, how we would sing

That's the way life should be
When you're family
That's the way life should be

Here we are now in the days of our lives
Three steps, and hey you're both gone
Forgetting how to take a moment
And breathe the air all slow

I don't call you 'cause you don't have time
It's a hill that we still have to climb
But if we believe in our heart of hearts
When love comes first, we'll show the fire

That's the way life should be
Wae yer family
That's the way life should be
Wae yer family

Oh, that's the way life should be
Oh, wae yer family
That's the way life should be
Wae yer family

(We are the ones who make the claim)
(We are the ones who live to shine)
(We are the ones who walk in shadows of those who came before)
(And now we share this love)
(Let's raise a glass to those we love)
(So here's to you and yours and my mad mother)
(For they are many and all that I have got)

That's the way life should be
Wae yer family
That's the way life should be
Wae yer family

Oh, that's the way life should be
Oh, wae yer family
That's the way life should be
Wae yer family

Yeah, wae your family
Sing out son
That's the way life should be
I'd kill things Johnny
Wae yer family
That's the way life should be
Wae yer family
That's the way that life should be...