This Sinking Ship

I see myself in my father's eyes
I see my strengths and my weaknesses
As children safe in our mothers arms
But photos can be misleading

Out on the branches of our family trees
That's where the young ones are dwindling
So will we learn?

Fought together into the night
Can we have 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 a story there

Out on the branches of our family trees
That's where the young ones are suffering
So when will we learn?

Fought together into the night
Can we have 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
Given all 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

Look into your son and forget what you've seen
Protect what you love and say what you mean
Before you send a sinking ship into the sea
Goddamn, I wish I knew when we started this