Redheaded Stepchild

Where I'm at, sometimes...
I just need to shut my eyes.
A mother's love and a father's pride... somehow it's all been twisted.
And these are the times that I swear, I ain't gonna be like that.
But all the while in the back of my mind, that doubt comes creeping up from behind...
and I want to punch the wall when I look at myself.
I swear, and I swear...
I ain't gonna be like that.

But sometimes I look in the mirror and I see you looking back at me... but I survive in spite of myself,
I survive in spite of myself, I survive in spite of myself.