This Sinking Ship

I see myself in my fathers eyes
 I see my strengths and my weaknesses
 There's children safe in their mother's arms
 But photos can be misleading
 Out on the branches of our family trees
 That's where the young ones are dwindling
 With lies
 So will we learn?
 Fought together into the night
 Can we help this home to survive?
 We need the strength of our family's arms
 Not a false sense of solidarity
 Walk together and we could work this out
 Talk together and we could understand
 We need the strength of our family's arms
 I wish I knew where to go from here
 I see the sadness in all their eyes
 I understand why this burdens them
 
 It's written on my grandfather's arms
 Indian ink tells the story there
 
 Out on the branches of our family trees
 That's where the young ones are suffering
 With lies
 So will we learn?
 Fought together into the night
 Can we help this home to survive?
 We need the strength of our family's arms
 Not a false sense of solidarity
 Walk together and we could work this out
 Talk together and we could understand
 We need the strength of our family's arms
 I wish I knew where to go from here
 We weren't meant to take this on
 But this can't be here when we are gone
 Giving what we have now is to make this time
 That we have left last forever
 All that we have left is to make this time last forever
 Then we'll have learned
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 Look into your son and forget what you see
 Protect what you love
 And say what you mean
 Before you send this sinking ship into the sea
 God damn, I wish we knew when we started this