Smoke Or Fire - This Sinking Ship (demo) lyrics

I see myself in my father's eyes I see my strengths and my weaknesses As children safe in our mothers arms But photos can be misleading Out on the branches of our family trees That's where the young ones are dwindling So will we learn? Fought together into the night Can we have 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 a story there Out on the branches of our family trees That's where the young ones are suffering So when will we learn? Fought together into the night Can we have 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 weren't meant to take this on but this can't be here when we are gone Given all 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've seen Protect what you love and say what you mean Before you send a sinking ship into the sea Goddamn, I wish I knew when we started this