Brothers

You need to get out of this house

I'll walk you down to town

We'll go act our age

Kick rocks, waste summer days

Penny candy at the general store

I'd buy us a pop if I had more

Keep walking inland all day

Spitting and cursing each other’s name

Ain't this what, ain't this what brothers are supposed to do?

The blood between us, makes it all but true

So we roll on through

Out past the quarries, sandpits too

Swim out among the rocks and cliffs

Ignorant youth keeps us from death

Find our way out to the tracks

The sun, it beats down on our backs

Well, heaven help us if there’s a train

Dodge it like the beaches of Normandy

Ain't this what, ain't this what brothers are supposed to do?

The blood between us, makes it all but true

And we saw that smoke rising over trees

And I swore, I swore, I swore that train was out for me

So I held him tight and felt those tracks rumble underneath

He swore, he swore if I didn't let go he would knock me off my feet

And that's what he did

And that's what he did

And that's what he did

And that's what he did