Family Tree Lyrics - Picking Up The Pieces - Jewel

Mama, I see your face now in the mirror 

It's getting clearer 

Daddy, all those things I said I wouldn't do 

I've been drawn to 'cause I looked up to you 

And I've loved you through this tangled legacy 

Tracing the twisted roots of our family tree 

I stayed strong like you did 

I moved on like you did 

And I wound up tough as stone like you did 

If I don't learn to bend I know I'm going to break 

Like you did 

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Lover, I must forgive you 

I confused you with what I couldn't see inside of me 

Dark things pulling, not evolving 

It made a puppet out of me 

And you came with your own history 

Both caught in the branches of our family tree 

I stayed strong like you did 

I moved on like you did 

And I wound up all alone like you did 

If I don't learn to bend, I know I'm gonna break just like you did 

I love you but I need to look at who we've been 

Take the fruit but choose the seeds I scatter in the wind 

That's the job of the kid: to do better than our parents did 

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So I'll stay strong like you did 

And I'll move on like you did 

But I won't hide from the truth like you did 

I'm learning to bend so I won't break 

And you can bet I'll teach my child 

that love will always find a way just like you did