Nature vs Nurture - Grieves

I’ve been looking at that shadow that’s inside of me for quite some time

Sunk my teeth in the light

As a young man blind

But never regret the process

Or regret time

Just wish I could have helped the 3 of us

And breached that line

Like how the hell was I supposed to know?

It’s the symbiotic circle that we all helped grow

And when it all fell through

Yeah, we all sunk in the same link

And drowned in that vision of our future in the same day and

You can tell it to the doctor when he asks you

Or carve it in your little prison wall like a tattoo but

We got a frozen rock of luck like a statue

That stands at the crossroads, blocking where to pass through

Damn, that’s part of living on the off-beat and

Part of skipping down that never-ending dark street so

You can fight it and draw the difference between us

Because the blood doesn’t match

But the God-damned disease does

How many more hearts are we going to break?

How many failed steps are we going to take?

It’s time to look at what we got here

Standing on the verge of that age old question

Is it nature versus nurture?

How many more lines are we going to cross

Until we figure out the pain we caused?

It’s time to look at what we got here

Standing on the verge of that age old question

Is it Nature versus Nurture?

I flipped through that little photo book that Ma made

And looked for the warning signs crawling out of my face

I’ve been questioning the level of our mind state

That made us feel like everything around us was a crying shame

No answer, just a whole bunch of burned bridges

Earned stitches in that curve in our world’s rythmn

And I don’t know where we learned this from

Or how it stuck with you after all the worse was done

But it scares me

Yeah, and I’m not afraid to say it

I’m ready to wake the demon and enclose it up and face it

And take it out and display it

And show the world that it’s real

Stop running from the past like it’s going to make you heal

Because it can’t

And maybe that’s the reason why I see it

And feel it in my pen when I sit down and treat it

And after all of it’s done, you don’t have to believe it

When the blood doesn’t match

And the God-damned disease lives

How many more hearts are we going to break?

How many failed steps are we going to take?

It’s time to look at what we got here

Standing on the verge of that age old question

Is it nature versus nurture?

How many more lines are we going to cross

Until we figure out the pain we caused?

It’s time to look at what we got here

Standing on the verge of that age old question

Is it Nature versus Nurture?