This Sinking Ship - Smoke or Fire

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

Right on the branches of my family trees

That’s where the young ones are dwindling — with lies

So will we learn?

Talk 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 my 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 were aloud 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

Look into your son and forget what you see

Protect what you love

And show what you mean

Before you send this sinking ship into the sea

God damn, I wish we knew when we started this