Twelve and ten And I grabbed your head Tried to help you keep it down Half past ten We laid in bed But heard it crashing down Disparaged by marriage We learned to be scared when The floorboards creaked a certain way So to keep the sharks at bay We learned to swim away We learned to reconfigure And how to numb the pain with liquor How to make yourself seem fine When you're only getting sicker Cause the triggers continued And the pictures still burn through But through breakdown And breakthrough We learned how to Make do Cause if we didn't make ourselves move We would Drown inside the lake too Brother Oh, brother I hope you hear my words Brother Oh, brother Please don't let this world destroy you first I know you'll hold your own But Won't you let me know When the weight becomes too much And you need to Let it go Brother Oh, brother Brother Oh, brother Unsatisfactory The saddest fact to me Is what this sadness factory Went and Did to me It didn't do to you While it spit me out in two It took its time to chew through you It made you choose To face the noose Or move aside Escape your fate Or Stay in line Embrace the hate Or brace your mind You kept your face and said This is no place to die (Brother) (Oh, brother) When you tried to Make it through These Basic boundaries Broke you The past came back to haunt you And took what you held onto The hurt you needed peace from Grabbed ahold and leeched on Attached another leash on And made you beg for freedom But if i'm being fully honest You always were The strongest of us never let it Break your conscious Even when you felt the smallest You spoke the Truth while it destroyed us Every pill was hard to swallow Iron will you wouldn't follow Instilled but still you kept Yourself It Came to kill and still you never asked for help Said you'd do it all yourself in sickness and in health Brother Oh, brother I hope you hear my words Brother Oh, brother Please don't let this world destroy you first I know you'll hold your own But Won't you let me know When the weight becomes too much And you need to Let it go Brother Oh, brother Brother Oh, brother I remember it like it was Yesterday You had a voice when we would never say Anything Im proud of you I mean look at you You Took the pain and you embraced it I always knew that you would make it Im so proud of you Brother Oh, brother Brother Oh, brother
