A simple message for when the music finishes
Part of Every Family
[Verse 1]
Dad and Mum in the shop
Salt on the counter
Grease on the clock
School shoes stacked by the backdoor rail
Chalk on her hands
Vinegar trail
[Verse 2]
Clock-off bell
Then Woolies till
Counting coins
Chasing the bills
Hard hat days on a dusty slab
Late nights pulling beers on the local tab
[Chorus]
Pauline
Part of every family
Sounds like your cousin
Your aunty
Your mate
Straight from the fryer
Straight from the street
Told it like it was
Not what they said to say
They rolled their eyes
But we heard her anyway
Pauline
Part of every family
[Verse 3]
Bought her own shop
Same old smell
Paper-wrapped dinner
Stories to tell
Talking over flake and battered prawn
Saying
"This is your place
You lot belong"
[Pre-Chorus]
They called her loud
They called her plain
She called out their favourite games
We shook our heads
Then thought it through
Some of it stung
Some of it rang true
[Chorus]
Pauline
Part of every family
Sounds like your cousin
Your aunty
Your mate
Straight from the fryer
Straight from the street
Told it like it was
Not what they said to say
They rolled their eyes
But we heard her anyway
Pauline
Part of every family
[Bridge]
Twenty years on
Kids grown tall
Old clips playing on the lounge room wall
We laugh
We argue
Then someone says
"Funny how she saw it
All those days"
[Chorus]
Pauline
Part of every family
Sounds like your cousin
Your aunty
Your mate
Straight from the fryer
Straight from the street
Said the quiet bits out loud
Come what may
We took our time
But we caught up one day
Pauline
Part of every family (hey)
Pauline
Part of every family
Written, produced - Rick Dean
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