Family Ties

We are animals

We are flawed by design

It's in our nature to fall back in line

We bite the hand that feeds us

We curse the cage we're confined

Wearing thin from the weight of borrowed time

Locked inside these walls

The ghosts that share my name

They've stitched themselves inside my bones

Their patterns I can't escape

Am I predisposed to live out the shame

What dark secrets hold their hidden keys to yesterday

All my broken bloodlines trace a path I'll never quite erase

I'll blame it on my father's sins

Like that excuses what I've been

I'm staring at my watch again

Waiting for the hands to spin

But the hours slip through like sand

I can't seem to hold them in

I'm growing my hair out

I don't know what it is

But the shape of these stains on my shirt

Look like a map to someplace I've never been

Am I trying to find meaning again

Did I think it would be different

Am I trying to find meaning again

I can't seem to break the habit

Locked inside these walls

The ghosts that share my name

They've stitched themselves inside my bones

Their patterns I can't escape

Am I predisposed to live out the shame

What dark secrets hold their hidden keys to yesterday

We are lions betrayed by our pride

Am I trying to find meaning again

Did I think it would be different

Am I trying to find meaning again

I can't seem to break the habit

Is this a generational curse or am I to blame

I am my mother's son

I want to be a child again

We're my intentions ever pure

Do I see myself the same

Was the table set already

And I'm just falling back in place