This Sinking Ship Lyrics - 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