What Happened To My Brother Lyrics - Perils From The Sea - Mark Kozelek

The life in his eyes 

Did something shake his brain 

On that long bus ride? 

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 

'Till some tiny little nothing 

Triggers psychotic eruption 

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What happens when he's sleepin' 

Why's he wake up cryin' and screamin' 

Knockin' into walls and runnin' 

Like hungry animals are comin' 

To gnaw his bones, lap up his blood 

From a ditch bank in the mud 

Leave his scarecrow in the sticks 

For the black birds 

And the blue jays to pick 

For the nature to encroach 

For the wanderers to approach 

For the snow and autumn leaves 

To be buried underneath 

For the rivers to rise 

Wash him out into the tides 

Used to have his pick of lovers 

A whole array of pretty ones 

My brother was a silver son 

Photos 

A heavyweight 

A head boy 

A frontman, a waterfall 

A stoic prince 

Not the second 

But the first violin 

So forget the viola 

So forget the cello 

So forget 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 swell of poems 

Used to bring the sweetest gifts 

We went to him to be uplifted 

For inspiration, friendship 

We needed love, we needed tips 

Oh how I miss, how I miss 

My brother I miss 

You ask me what's he do 

He swallows reds, he swallows blues 

Stares off in the night sky 

You ask me what's he do 

So forget the viola 

So forget the cello 

So forget the violin 

He's up, he's up, he's up there 

Laying low