Blood Is Thicker Than Water

Lyrics

Blood is Thicker Than Water
Written by Campbell Woods
Performed by Hannah & Nathan
(Hannah Shira Naiman and Nathan Smith)

Your mother always told you, “I love you both the same”
But he got her affection and you got all her blame
On her dying day she told you, “I’m giving you a task,
Look after your brother, it’s all that I ask, it’s all that I ask”

And she said,
Blood is thicker than water
And she lay down

Sometimes you’d like to leave him, once you even tried
But you know you don’t have the heart to be the leaving kind.
So in the moments before sleeping, you say a little prayer,
“Lord, help me with my burden, it’s more than I can bear, it’s more than I can bear”

And you whisper,
Blood is thicker than water
And you lay down

You dream of a far-off frozen lake
You leave no note, you leave no trace
But blood is thicker than water
So you hang around

You will hold no beauty, no pleasure and no sin
You know the wind is blowing by the weather vane that spins
Seems living for another has worn you down with time,
You’ve gone to seed out in the field, you’ve withered on the vine, you’ve withered on the vine

But you know,
Blood is thicker than water
So you hang around
Yeah you know,
Blood is thicker than water
And you lay down