Tom Meltzer     When I look in the mirror I see my dad's face  Where my face used to be  Then I realize that he was about my age  When he started his own family  Then my radicalism, all my college Marxism  Starts drifting on out to deep sea  When I look in the mirror and I see my dad's face  Where my face used to be  When I was a kid I used to look at my dad  And I'd say, "This is who I am not."  He used Bryl-Creem, I used hair spray  He was fat, I was skinny  He drank beer, I smoked pot  But now my feet are disappearing beneath an ocean of beer  And not so mysteriously  When I look at my face I see in its place  My dad's physiognomy  I used to look at my friends, they looked fifty years older  Some nights when I'd get too stoned  That's when I believed time was a visible line  With its end and beginning both shown  Now I know that's not true   But I've still got an idea pretty much of what I can expect  When I look in the mirror and I see my dad's mug  Sitting there right on top of my neck  Well, my dad had it rough, he couldn't keep his true love  He never reached his sought-after perfection  So as I headed down my own life's road  I headed straight in the other direction  Now, when I turn around, he's not so far away  And we're on the same road, I can see  When I look in the mirror and I see my dad's face  Where my face used to be