[Intro]
[Verse 1]
How can I repay you, brother mine?
How can I expect you to forgive?
Clinging to the past, I shed our blood
And shattered your chance to live
[Verse 2]
Though I knew the laws, I paid no heed
How can I return your wasted breath?
What I didn t know has cost you dear;
For there is no cure for death
[Bridge]
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet
Once you were gone we were not complete
Back through the years we reached for you
/
Alas, it was not to be
[Chorus]
And how can I make amends
For all that I took from you?
I led you with hopeless dreams
My brother, I was a fool
[Piano solo]
[Verse 3]
Don t cry for the past now, brother mine
Neither you nor I are free of blame
Nothing can erase the things we did
For the path we took was the same
[Verse 4]
How could I expect to call you wrong?
How could you be blamed for what we ve done?
Both of us were fools in our desires
As we flew too close to the sun
[Bridge]
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet
Once you were gone we were not complete
Back through the years we reached for you
/
Alas, it was not to be
[Chorus]
My dreams made me blind and mute
I longed to return to that time
I followed without a word
My brother, the fault is mine
[Piano solo]
[Chorus]
So where do we go from here?
And how to forget and forgive?
What s gone is forever lost
Now all we can do is live...
[Outro]