Story Behind the Song
Jon Brooks: Drums, beatvox, vocals
Marianna Hetrick: Keybords, vocals
D'arcy Ladret: Bass
David Hetrick: Lead Vocals
Jeff Cory: Guitar
Lyrics
Brother
Born with none and left with one, how could I lose another one, I didn't do
what I should have done by losing hold of the second one.
But the facts remain the same after all of the crying with one brother dead
and the other dying.
By his own hand, or guided by another man, it's something I can't know man,
cause I've never been hip to the plan
Yet the other brother's out there, living in doubt of my love I fear, but I
don't know where to go from here, I got my own so I can't be there
Shane I know you looked to me for all the things you could not understand on
your own
But just like all the others without fail I left you to deal with your shit
all alone
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My Brother, I wasn’t what you needed me to be, Brother, I couldn’t find the time when you needed me, years have gone by and I can’t forget or forgive, it’s like I’m doomed to relive what went down between you and me, Brother
Doug you took a dive into the river that gives you life and took a chance at
avoiding the afterlife
So on this particular day you decide to give it a go, to try to find
something that you didn't know
But you know you didn't want to be here anymore, you needed to escape from
the pain you could no longer ignore
But as the fumes were rising and your world subsiding, I hope you knew, to
get you back, just how long we were fighting
Doug you weren't equipped to handle all the shit they threw at you at any
age
You thought better to take your life than to fight through all that fueled
your suicidal rage
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I can't, you won't give it a try maybe I can but I don't know what it is to
be there, but I do know that doesn't matter what is fair, because it won't
be, every time I can't be there
I should give it a try though I may fry, but between you and I, I never had
the patience to lie
About just how fucked you'd been, by those you loved again and again, but can it fully explain what you did to meet the means to your ends, sometimes I think it can.
Shane there’s things between us that I can’t explain nor can I get them from my head at night.
Like if you think that I didn’t love you and that Dougy felt the same thing in his fading light
Still it doesn't make it right my
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