(Verse 1) I caught my reflection in a shop window today. Walking with that heavy tilt, My shoulders squared in that certain way... It’s the gait I got from you— The one saying I’ve got somewhere to be, Even when I’m nowhere near the beaches we knew. You’re sixty-six and retired now; You're supposed to be off the clock. Probably making my stepmom crazy, Driving her around the block. You call to tell me how to live, I tell you I’ve already got a plan… Then we spend twenty minutes arguing just because we can. (Chorus) We’re cut from the same cloth, just worn in different ways I’m a ‘95 baby with all your old-school traits. We bicker ‘til the air is thin, then go back to being fine Two separate mountain peaks, sitting on the same fault line. We’re our own people, but man, do we look the same— Two stubborn hearts just carrying a different name. (Verse 2) It’s been a long time since we stood out on the Miami Pier, Saltwater on our skin and not a single thing to fear. I’d cast my line too shallow, and you’d give that little grin… Waiting for me to lose the bait, Then tell me where the fish have been. You’re an "I-told-you-so" master, in the kindest, toughest way… With a lesson for the tackle box at the end of every day. I miss the purple of the sky, with the waves against the wooden pillars below... Before I thought I knew it all, back when I still understood. (Bridge) I’m building up my own world, miles from where I grew… But I’m still checking for the birds and the tides, just like you once taught me. We’re like two magnets spinning, and pushing off the other’s fishing pole… But there’s a common rhythm deep inside the soul. (Outro) Maybe I’ll head south again for my birthday: And let you tell me what I’m doing incorrectly, just like the old days (even if you're the one who's wrong). We don't have to agree to see things eye to eye, We’re just two of a kind under a wide, purple sky. Yeah, I’m still your beloved daughter, and you’re still my headstrong father… Doing the best we can with our weathered hands. (Slow, resonant guitar strum that fades out)
