Three Generations

oh... I know where I came from Even when I tried to run Old words in the back of my mind Things I swore I'd never become Some lessons came easy Some took years to understand I kept what still meant something Let the rest fall from my hands Every mile behind me Still brought me here somehow I couldn't see it then But I can see it now Three generations Behind me, here with me And somewhere up ahead Three generations Different lives, different years More than words we never said I carry something forward Something they carried too I don't have to live their story To know what they went through carry it on yeah... keep going... I remember being younger Thinking time would always wait Thinking everybody older Had somehow figured out the way Now the years look different From this side of where I've been You don't notice what you're becoming Till you turn and look again Every hand that held me Had another hand before We take a little with us Then we make it something more Three generations Behind me, here with me And somewhere up ahead Three generations Different lives, different years More than words we never said We keep what still has meaning We change what doesn't fit Nobody gets it perfect But we don't stop because of it no, we don't carry it on oh... I remember... still here... There are names I still remember There are voices I still hear There are things that disappeared But somehow never really left And somewhere there's a tomorrow That will never know today They'll take whatever we leave them And they'll find their own damn way I don't need a monument I don't need my name in stone Just leave something worth carrying When it's time to let it go Three generations One behind, one standing here One reaching past today Three generations None of us were meant To walk exactly the same way Take whatever makes you stronger Leave behind what weighs you down When somebody takes it farther You don't have to turn around go on make it yours yeah... that's yours now... go on... © 2026 Katana~Buck