Same Blood

Four kids in the same old frame

Thirteen candles from the first to the last

Hand-me-downs, busted doors

Shared a roof, weathered storms

Two brothers oceans apart, protecting the ones they love

Two sisters, too young, growing up never knowing the sacrifice

At times we hated what we saw, barely knew each other at all

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Passing each other like cars in the dark

Headlights gone in a blink

Still, I see the marks

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Same blood, different storms

Same house, different forms

They ran, we held the doors

All of us reaching, still unknown

Born in the wake of the ones before

Same blood, different storms

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They called once from far off coasts

Bad connection, laughter through the thunder

We stayed back, stitched the days

Kept the house alive, shared our time

Learning how to speak our minds

In a town that loves its blinds

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We were mirrors that never caught the same light

They took on the sunset

We took on the night

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Same blood, different storms

Same house, different forms

They ran, we held the doors

All of us reaching, still unknown

Born in the wake of the ones before

Same blood, different storms

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Did it bend us like it bent the house we shared?

Two brothers far, two sisters there

Every shadow, every scar

Made four of us who we are

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Same blood, different storms

Same house, different forms of healing

They call, we answer side by side

All of us feeling

Maybe all the miles only made us more

Same blood, different storms

Same blood, different storms