inheritance

• new model army sarkisi, thunder and consolation albumunden
  
  mother, father, i'm doing ok
  on the other side of the country
  far away
  and though i know the things
  that you want to hear me say
  sometimes these things are hard
  
  mother, father, i am your son
  right down to the long thin pointed face
  and this muddled up and twisted tongue
  and now i find that i'm doing all those
  things you would have done
  sometimes these things are hard
  
  so do i thank you ?
  do i curse you ?
  these tracks stretch out before me
  the ones you left behind
  what i want and what i feel
  it's yours, yours, not mine
  
  mother, father, all those battles that have been
  and the long long silences that lay in between
  please don't try to tell me all those were in vain
  sometimes these things are hard
  we live up at the wedding
  in rows of deep set eyes
  in our finest formal dresses
  yes, and proper suits and ties
  like a family of munsters
  in a really bad disguise ...
  
  so do i thank you ? ...
  do i curse you ?