I lean back, stay put and watch tongue-tied As you move right past me out of sight and I can be better and I could live up to Everything that my father would have expected me to do I lie awake, don't move, stay beside me I lied before, won't ever fight it But I can be better and I swear I could listen Just as close as my mother and put aside all ambition I board the plane Wait, I forgot how to turn it off and make it stop But then, I can write better and I can sing softly Because it's all in my family and it's all that I'm used to If you swing low, I'll duck down I'll do whatever it takes to melt down Swing low, I'll duck down I'll do whatever it takes to melt down