Well tonight in this graveyard
With the bones of your old man beneath your feet
Do they shine a light on what's to come from living how you are?
Is there anything left to make you see?
I know that curse that's been weld to your name
It never gave you too much of a choice
But hopefully you'll learn some day that shaking off the blame
Will only overshadow your own voice
So don't you go giving up
Just like your daddy did
And lay yourself to waste
Like the men that came before him
A dog don't gotta bite
If you can tame what lies within
But if you don't get up and fight
You'll never leave that hell you're in
Some things get left behind
Some people die young
You say you're doing fine
With your knife against a gun
But I don't blame you
Your mind's just so damn spun
You'll never see the light
When you're hiding from the sun
And broken families
A story that itself is old as time
Some of us are saved, while others slip away
And some of us just keep on that thin line
So who are you gonna be son?
You say you'll never change, but it's already been done
So give yourself a chance before you find that your last dance
Is with the same thing that kept daddy on the run
So as you stare
At that wall so vacantly
You say you're hanging on
But does that really mean much of anything?
Do you care
If all you're gonna be
Is the shadow of the man
That this world may never see?
Some things get left behind
Some people die young
You say you're doing fine
With your knife against a gun
But I don't blame you
Your mind's just so damn spun
You'll never see the light
When you're hiding from the sun
Some things get left behind
And you're not doing fine child
But I don't blame you
You're not the only one
It's killing me it's killing us
It's killing us