It's in my blood It's in my blood A game of nothing You don't get to pick and choose Instead of making assumptions, take a long walk in my shoes We are looking for something, oh I will take it, win or lose It's up to you to hold you down You are not your best decision You are not your worst mistake You do not fit the description Don't let society keep you away They cannot cancel redemption Tomorrow's another today You do not owe them attention And nobody else has a say There is something in the water There is something in the blood I am just somebody's daughter I am so misunderstood And it's so up to the other When they say it's for my good And I got it from my father, oh-oh It's in my blood It's in my blood, oh-oh It's in my blood, oh-oh It's in my blood, oh-oh It's in my blood, oh-oh Waking up in the morning Seeing the mirror, that's on you They make a thousand assumptions They can't make one lie be true I am done running from nothing I don't got nothing to prove There's too beautiful left to do There is something in the water There is something in the blood I am just somebody's daughter I am so misunderstood And it's so up to the other When they say it's for my good And I got it from my father, oh-oh It's in my blood It's in my— It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my blood It's in my— And when I looked at you and said: Oh honey, don't, don't do that Don't go play music, 'cause you grew up around a guitar player, you I don't want you to eat soup, beans, and cornbread for the rest of your life And you, and you looked at me and you said: I like soup, beans, and cornbread just fine It, it sort of humbled me at that point, you know Because I heard my own words through you that I said to my father spoke back to me It, it, it really did, it sort of, I went: Oh hell She's just like I was, you know Which sort of troubled me in a way because I was sort of disjointed and confused at that time in my life But I went on with what I wanted to do and was able to live on it And, you know, I feared that everything would be wrong for you So, you know, when I see you doing so well It, it does nothing but fill my heart up with joy And I always tell my friends about it and I, I go She, she proved me wrong, and I'm so grateful for it