My flesh and blood get the best of me
But there's a darkness running deeply through their veins
I can see me in their eyes
My flesh and blood walk tall and strong
But I know inside sometimes they get scared
And it can make them blind
I tried to teach them how to swim
Through waters deep so they won't drown
To keep their heads up high, 'cause that same water
Used to drag me down
My flesh and blood they're not on their own
'Cause I'm walking right beside them all the way
And I won't let them stray
My flesh and blood have the world laid out
Right in front of them, but the path gets hard to find
But that won't stop them trying
My flesh and blood, I can see the light
Of a new sunrise when I look into their eyes
I know that they'll get by
My flesh and blood and skin and bone
My hopes and dreams and love I kept for you
It's all that I could do
I know the fear that's there inside my heart
That blocks the way inside them too
They're going to have to work it out
It's the one thing, that I could never do
My flesh and blood they're not on their own
'Cause I'm walking right beside them all the way
And I won't let them stray
My flesh and blood have the world laid out
Right in front of them, but the path gets hard to find
But that won't stop them trying
My flesh and blood
My flesh and blood
My flesh and blood
My flesh and blood
My flesh and blood they're not on their own
'Cause I'm walking right beside them all the way
And I won't let them stray
My flesh and blood have the world laid out
Right in front of them, but the path gets hard to find
But that won't stop them trying
My flesh and blood
You're my flesh and blood
My flesh and blood
You're my flesh and blood
My flesh and blood
Flesh and blood is you