In Our Genes

from Never Quite Asleep by Younger Than Neil

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Don't how to say I hope you're doing well.
We shared secrets that we swore we'd never tell.
But I can't see you from where I stand.
I held you close when we heard the news about your dad.

The broken glass from the frame that left the wall.
We cleaned it up but never got it all
Pain in my feet though the splinters are gone
But the pain gives me something to focus on.
Yeah the pain gives me something to focus on.

They say the violence is in our genes.
Point the finger as if they ruined everything.
Our fathers cursed us with spirits unclean.
But it's only up to us to change our destiny.

They say the only place for men like us is hell.
Forged in misery and left holding a shell.
Damaged goods that nobody will want.
Possessed by demons that always will haunt.
But I refuse to see the men we've become
Back down and decide it's easier to run.
It's difficult to confess I'm afraid that they're right.
But we should prove them wrong if only to spite.
The broken glass from the frame that left the wall.
We cleaned it up but never got it all
Pain in my feet though the splinters are gone
But the pain gives me something to focus on.
Yeah the pain gives me something to focus on.

I don't believe that only heredity
Can decide the type of man that I'm supposed to be.
And though our bloodline says to be afraid
We can erase all of the past, and write new history.

They say the violence is in our genes.
Point the finger as if they ruined everything.
Our fathers cursed us with spirits unclean.
But it's only up to us to change our destiny.
I don't believe that only heredity
Can decide the type of man that I'm supposed to be.
And though our bloodline says to be afraid
We can erase all of the past, and write new history.

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from Never Quite Asleep, released January 10, 2018

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