5 Chinese Brothers - My Dad's Face lyrics

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