DmGDm
How can I repay you brother mine?
DmCFA
How can I expect you to forgive?
DmGDm
Clinging to the past I shed our blood,
CDm
and shattered your chance to live.
DmGDm
Though I knew the laws I paid no heed.
CFA
How can I return your wasted breath?
DmGDm
What I did not know has cost you dear,
CDm
For there is no cure for death.
FGFG
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet
FGBbC
Once you were gone we were not complete.
FGFG
Back through the years we reached for you.
FGA
Alas was not meant to be
BbCF
And how can I make amends,
BbCF
for all that I took from you?
GAmBb
I lead you with hopeless dreams.
GAmDm
My brother I was a fool.
DmGDmGDmGBbAmDmBbCDmDmGDm
Don't cry for the past now brother mine,
DmCFA
Neither you nor I are free from blame.
DmGDm
Nothing can erase the things we did,
CDm
For the path we took was the same.
FGFG
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet
FGBbC
Once you were gone we were not complete.
FGFG
Back through the years we reached for you.
FGA
Alas was not meant to be
BbCF
My dreams made me blind and mute,
BbCF
I longed to return to that time,
GAmBb
I followed without a word.
GAmDm
My brother the fault is mine.
BbCF
So where do we go from here?
BbCF
And how to forget and forgive?
GAmBb
What's gone is forever lost.
GAmDm
Now all we can do is live.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.