"Me & My Parents" lyrics

Dad's always distant
Holding it in
Mom's in the kitchen
Crying again
I'm in my bedroom
Wish there was a textbook
Trying to learn how to love

Tears at the table
We're all ashamed
Cheers to the elephant
We'll never face
Breakfast next morning
Like everything's normal
Trying to learn how to love

Just kids
Keeping kids alive
And it's everyone's first time
Looking back on the past
I see memories of
Me and my parents
Watching each other grow up

How many times can you give up a dream
Just to build new ones for your family
We have the same name
We write the same songs
But I'll never know
Just how hard that was

Every future is written
On a page from the past
Like my mom is still mending
Scars from her dad
Life is so hard
Family is harder

Looking back now
My mother and father were kids
Keeping kids alive
I was born
They were just 25
Looking back on the past
I see memories of
Me and my parents
Watching each other grow up

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, ooooh

What will my kids have to forgive me for
Mistakes I'll make
Feelings I'll ignore
30 years from now on their therapist's couch
Wishing I'd learned how to love
Maybe loving each other
Is watching each other grow up

Just like me and my parents
Watching each other grow up