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 armour 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 those 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 and 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 become an accessory
  And I don't have an alibi
  To the victim lying on my doorstep
  The only way I can 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 them 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
  Find a home
  You sure, you sure
  The traffic lights shine upon
  (?) and the broken home
  Everyone could be oh so far away
  (?) and the white lines lead the way
  Lead the way
  And the writing on the wall
  They're carving out the martyrs in stone
  Could've been the same this way
  It could've been the same this way
  Tell them it's the same today
  We could have been much younger
  It could have been much longer
  Into the real time
  Too far
  You run away today
  Tomorrow