Heirloom Pain - NIKI

作词：Nicole Zefanya

作曲：Nicole Zefanya

Build a pillow barricade so the ghosts can't get to me

Twenty-something instincts feel like a deadbeat dad

Never there when it counts and puts you right in therapy

Life is a gamble baby and you'll have to live with that

Oh but I'll be fine cause I always end up

just fine then I call a friend up

That's just how it is

And I wake up tired and vaguely sore

Stir a pot when I'm feeling bored

Full-sending a lot only halfway sure

Walking around with heirloom pain

Dad's temper and mom's mistakes

and always afraid to fall flat on my face

yet doing it anyway

I'm doing it anyway

Walls up to the skies

many men have marched around to no avail

There's Achilles then there's

his godforsaken heel

I do the dishes and tend the garden

Soften up where I used to harden

Then take a moonlit walk

And I wake up tired and vaguely sore

Stir a pot when I'm feeling bored

Full-sending a lot only halfway sure

Walking around with heirloom pain

Grandma left but her heartache stayed

and now I'm always afraid to take up space

doing it anyway

I'm doing it anyway

People fall in love and up so

and have kids who fall in love and up so

who have kids that fall in love and have you

People fall in love and up so

We all fall in love and up so

You will fall in love and up so too