Andy Goggin: The Songs

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)
• MP3 play whole song, lo-fi (modem)

Is it really pre-ordained that we become our parents or do we have a say in the matter? I muse over this in this song. Here it is about alcoholism, but it could just as well be about violence, wife battering, incest, criminality in general you name it.

When the sins of the father pass down to the son
You are doomed to repeat his mistakes
For the rules you have learned to decide right and wrong
Can´t compete with this pre-ordained fate

So you follow your instincts the best way you can
Still a hollow inside you can´t fill
And you question your motives yet act like a man
With your world built up round the next thrill

These things were not up to you
The years that you thought you were true
Were not wasted or just blown away
For they made you the man here today

Like father like son that´s the way it begins
And the safety in things you have known
But he with eyes open is he that will win
Even though this black seed has been sown

Just because there´s a mountain you don´t have to climb
You can stay with your feet on the ground
When the oceans around you are made up of wine
You decide if you´ll swim or you´ll drown

These things are all up to you
The years you have left can be true
Don´t you waste them with dark yesterdays
Let the fire in your heart show the way

When the sins of the father pass down to the son
You´re not doomed to repeat his mistakes