generations in the making

Thought I'd become a better, bolder version of myself

The second that I started packing bags for Nashville

But I hope I never change, oh, I'm still a little girl

With messy curls, messy curls

Thought moving out would drown it out if I had some distance

From the weight of all the doubt and always feeling unwanted

But I hope I never change, oh, I'll keep shutting it out

Remind myself, remind myself

That I'm a reincarnate of my mother's beauty

And every other woman come before me

If my parents and grandparents were adored

Then somebody has loved my face before

I'm more than teenage boys and all the noise I let them have

I'm less spoken than my mom's side, but I'm louder than my dad's

I'm a product of it all, oh, it's all ancestral

As I recall, I recall

That I'm a reincarnate of my mother's beauty

And every other woman come before me

If my parents and grandparents were adored

Then somebody has loved my face before

I'll trace my imperfections in the mirror

Forgetting the sole reason and why I'm here

And if all my features took centuries of shaping

Then I was generations in the making

I was generations in the making

All my features took centuries of shaping

I was generations in the making, oh

Oh, I have my father's eyes and my grandmother's curls

My mother looked just like me when she was a teenage girl

And I'm sure that I'll love someday, 'cause it's somehow guaranteed

As my predecessors found their paths in love before me

Oh, I'm a reincarnate of my mother's beauty

And every other woman come before me

If my parents and grandparents were adored

Then somebody has loved my face before

I'm living proof of other people's lives

I am every lover amplified

And if all my features took generations of shaping

Then I was generations in the making

I was generations in the making

All my features took centuries of shaping

I was generations in the making, oh