Every generation blames the one before
and all of their frustrations come beating on your door
I know that I'm prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
More crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts
stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got
you say you just don't see it he says it's perfect sense
you just can't get agreement in this present tense
we all talk a different language talking in defence
(Say it loud) say it loud (say it clear) oh say it clear
(you can listen) as well as you hear
(it's too late) it's too late (when we die) oh when we die
(to admit) we don't see eye to eye
So we open up the quarrel 'tween the present and the past
we only sacrifice the future it's the bitterness that lasts
so don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see it's fate
it may have a new perspective on a different day
and if you don't give up and don't give in you may just be okay
So say it say it say it loud (say it clear) oh say it clear
(you can listen) as well as you hear
because it's too late it's too late (when we die) oh when we die
(to admit) we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
So say it say it say it loud (say it clear) oh say it clear
(you can listen) as well as you hear
(it's too late) it's too late (when we die) it's too late when we die
(to admit) we don't see eye to eye
Hey so say it say it say it loud say it loud (say it clear) come on say it clear
(say it loud) don't give up don't give in and don't look until it's too late
(say it loud) say it loud say it loud (say it clear)
and all of their frustrations come beating on your door
I know that I'm prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
More crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts
stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got
you say you just don't see it he says it's perfect sense
you just can't get agreement in this present tense
we all talk a different language talking in defence
(Say it loud) say it loud (say it clear) oh say it clear
(you can listen) as well as you hear
(it's too late) it's too late (when we die) oh when we die
(to admit) we don't see eye to eye
So we open up the quarrel 'tween the present and the past
we only sacrifice the future it's the bitterness that lasts
so don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see it's fate
it may have a new perspective on a different day
and if you don't give up and don't give in you may just be okay
So say it say it say it loud (say it clear) oh say it clear
(you can listen) as well as you hear
because it's too late it's too late (when we die) oh when we die
(to admit) we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
So say it say it say it loud (say it clear) oh say it clear
(you can listen) as well as you hear
(it's too late) it's too late (when we die) it's too late when we die
(to admit) we don't see eye to eye
Hey so say it say it say it loud say it loud (say it clear) come on say it clear
(say it loud) don't give up don't give in and don't look until it's too late
(say it loud) say it loud say it loud (say it clear)