[Verse]
The pain inherited
Transformed into weaponry
I've grown attached to it
The very thing that threatens me
[Chorus]
A blackbird's call
A murder on my shoulder
I knew I couldn't hold her
She had to fall
I knew I had to hurt her
So she could hurt no longer

[Verse]
I grew up next to him
The man that could not let it be
He found the root of it
I saw him rot in front of me
[Chorus]
A blackbird's call
A murder on my shoulder
I knew I couldn't hold her
She had to fall
I knew I had to hurt her
So she could hurt no longer
[Bridge]
I'm not my father
And this is not my cross to bear
No
I won't be a martyr
For your generational despair
I'm not my father
And this is not my cross to bear
No
I won't be a martyr
For your generational despair
[Chorus]
A blackbird's call
A murder on my shoulder
I knew I couldn't hold her
She had to fall
I knew I had to hurt her
So she could hurt no longer
A blackbird's call
A murder on my shoulder
I knew I couldn't hold her
She had to fall
I knew I had to hurt her
So she could hurt no longer