Nature Vs. Nurture

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

Sunk my teeth into life, as a young man blind

But never regret the process or regret time

Just wish I could have helped the three of us and breach that line

Like how the hell was I supposed to know?

It's a symbiotic circle that we all helped grow

And when it all fell through

Yeah we all sunk in the same lake

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

It stands at the cross roads blocking where to pass through

Damn, that's part of livin' 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

Cos the blood doesn't match but the god damn disease does

How many more hearts are we gonna break?

How many failed steps are we gonna 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 gonna 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 flip through that little photo book that Ma made

And look 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 answers, just a whole bunch of burned bridges

Earned stitches and a curve in our world's rhythm

And I don't know where we learned this from

Or how it's stuck with you after all the worst 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 gonna make you heal

Cos 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 damn disease lives

How many more hearts are we gonna break?

How many failed steps are we gonna 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 gonna 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?