Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - What Happened to My Brother lyrics

What happened to my brother? The life in his eyes? Did something shake his brain On that long bus ride? What happened to my brother? Swear he had my mother's face What I'd give to find him Hold him in a long embrace What happened to his body? Why's he look so white and empty? When he shows up at my door Just don't know him Used to sit and talk for days Now he lays there in a haze Until some tiny little nothing Triggers psychotic eruption What happens when he's sleeping? Why's he wake up crying and screaming? Like?? in the walls? Like hungry animals have come to gnaw his bones Like Papa's blood from a ditchbank in the mud Leave a scarecrow and the sticks For the blackbird and the blue jays to pick For the nature to encroach For the waters to approach For the snow and autumn leaves To be buried underneath For the rivers to rise Washing out into the tides What happened to my brother? He still have his fickle lovers? A whole array of pretty ones My brother was a silver sun A heavy weight, a headboard A front nine, a waterfall A stroke prince Not the second, but the first violin So far, so far, so far again To be alone now So far, so far, so far again The channel on So far, so far, so far again The violin He's up, he's up, he's up in his room Gone solo He used to dazzle us Leave a trail of magic dust At the end of every joke We would laugh so hard we'd choke He could turn over a stone Find an endless world of bones Used to bring the sweetest kiss We went to him to be uplift Inspiration, friendship We needed love, we needed tips Oh how I miss, how I miss My brother, I miss ? You asked me what's he do? He swallows reds, he swallows blues Stares off into the night sky You ask me what's he do or why? So far, so far, so far again Velveeta wall So far, so far, so far again The channel on So far, so far, so far again The violin He's up, he's up, he's up there