Brother to Brother

You opened the door like you were glad to see me.

Verse 1 You poured me a glass like the years weren't on the shelf Asked about my shoulder like you didn't sign it yourself Same kitchen we grew up dodging the same belt Same crack in the same wall where the cold got felt I let you talk, I let you build the lie up high You always were the one who could look a man in the eye I'm not here for the money, brother, keep your stack I drove four hundred miles to watch you not look back

Pre-Chorus I'm not loud I'm not armed I'm the quiet That you've earned

Chorus Brother to brother, look at me Tell me the lie to my face this time, for free You sold the only one who'd die for you Brother to brother — was forty grand the going rate for blood, or two?

Verse 2 You say it was the only way, your hands start doing math You always could divide a man right down his path There's a photo on the fridge of two boys and a bike One holding the other up — funny what stays alike Mama's chair is empty, you kept it by the door I notice you can't sit in it, and I know what for You're not afraid of me, you never were, that's true You're afraid of the chair, and the boy in it who looked up to you

Pre-Chorus I'm not loud I'm not armed I'm the quiet That you've earned

Chorus Brother to brother, look at me Tell me the lie to my face this time, for free You sold the only one who'd die for you Brother to brother — was forty grand the going rate for blood, or two?

Bridge I had it all rehearsed. The thing I'd say. The thing I'd do. I practiced it for eight hundred miles. And now I'm standing in our mother's kitchen and you've got her eyes and I can't — Brother to brother, look at me Tell me the lie to my face this time, for free You sold the only one who'd die for you Brother to brother — was forty grand the going rate for blood, or two?

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