[Verse 1]
In the nursery shadows creep tonight
Fraiberg showed us ghosts we cannot see
Mother's mother left without goodbye
Passed her pain down generationally
Father tried to chase the spirits out
But created phantoms of his own
Unlived dreams became his haunting doubt
In this house no child grows up alone
[Chorus]
Ghosts in every generation
Trauma flows from past to present
Numb or fight or stay a victim
Danieli mapped the patterns sent
Three adaptational styles we learn
Fighter, victim, numb inside
When the future cannot return
Where do broken families hide?
[Verse 2]
Yehuda found it in our DNA
FKBP5 methylation changed
Holocaust survivors' children pay
With their biology rearranged
Not a metaphor but science true
Stress rewrites our genetic code
What your grandparents lived through
Shapes the path your neurons road
[Chorus]
Ghosts in every generation
Trauma flows from past to present
Numb or fight or stay a victim
Danieli mapped the patterns sent
Three adaptational styles we learn
Fighter, victim, numb inside
When the future cannot return
Where do broken families hide?
[Bridge]
Bowen saw anxiety cascade
Differentiation lost each time
Grandmother's abandonment parade
Becomes your mother's paradigm
Father absorbs her regulation loss
The system spreads its temporal pain
Each generation pays the cost
Of wounds that never heal again
[Verse 3]
The numb family shuts the future out
When hope becomes too much to bear
Fighter families battle and shout
Victim families live in despair
Which style did your household choose?
When the ghosts came out to play
There's no winning, only what you lose
When tomorrow fades away
[Chorus]
Ghosts in every generation
Trauma flows from past to present
Numb or fight or stay a victim
Danieli mapped the patterns sent
Three adaptational styles we learn
Fighter, victim, numb inside
When the future cannot return
Where do broken families hide?
[Outro]
In the nursery shadows creep tonight
But knowledge helps us see the way
Understanding brings us light
To break the chains of yesterday