5 CHINESE BROTHERS - My Dad's Face lyrics

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Tom meltzer<br><br>When I look in the mirror I see my dad's face<br>Where my face used to be<br>Then I realize that he was about my age<br>When he started his own family<br>Then my radicalism, all my college marxism<br>Starts drifting on out to deep sea<br>When I look in the mirror and I see my dad's face<br>Where my face used to be<br><br>When I was a kid I used to look at my dad<br>And I'd say, this is who I am not.<br>He used bryl-creem, I used hair spray<br>He was fat, I was skinny<br>He drank beer, I smoked pot<br>But now my feet are disappearing beneath an ocean of beer<br>And not so mysteriously<br>When I look at my face I see in it's place<br>My dad's physiognomy<br><br>I used to look at my friends, they looked fifty years older<br>Some nights when I'd get too stoned<br>That's when I believed time was a visible line<br>With it's end and beginning both shown<br>Now I know that's not true<br>But I've still got an idea pretty much of what I can expect<br>When I look in the mirror and I see my dad's mug<br>Sitting there right on top of my neck<br><br>Well, my dad had it rough, he couldn't keep his true love<br>He never reached his sought-after perfection<br>So as I headed down my own life's road<br>I headed straight in the other direction<br>Now, when I turn around, he's not so far away<br>And we're on the same road, I can see<br>When I look in the mirror and I see my dad's face<br>Where my face used to be