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